Major Expansions Set for Bangkok’s International Airports

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Transport has confirmed the expansion of Bangkok’s international airports to handle the increasing number of passengers after the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

According to Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob, Airports of Thailand Plc is planning to solicit bids for the expansion of Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang International Airport early next year.

 

Saksayam stated AOT would hold a tender for constructing a new 10-billion-baht passenger terminal on the east side of Suvarnabhumi International Airport. A master plan is also being drafted for Suvarnabhumi’s future expansion, which includes the addition of two new passenger terminals: one to the west of the main terminal and one to the north.

 

Meanwhile, the AOT intends to hold a tender for the third phase of the Don Mueang airport expansion, which will have a budget of 36 billion baht.

 

The minister said the construction proposal will likely be presented to the AOT board of directors in March 2023. Once authorized, it will be forwarded to the National Economic and Social Development Council for review before being submitted to the Cabinet for approval.

 

The bidding is expected to be held in the middle of next year, and the project winner will be selected within 12 months, with construction starting in 2024.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG221202131355471

 

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[bradiston]

Amazing, isn't it? In the UK, the proposed 3rd runway for Heathrow has been what, 40 years in the making, with very little progress? Many have tried and failed to get this thing built. Got the new terminals, but nothing else. It's falling behind, or probably already has, to Frankfurt, Paris etc. And as for the management of ground staff, immigration etc. Strikes, manpower shortages, system outages, overcrowding. People complain about Swampy. Hmm. Might want to cast a glance back home, wherever that is.

[khunjeff]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Saksayam stated AOT would hold a tender for constructing a new 10-billion-baht passenger terminal on the east side of Suvarnabhumi International Airport. A master plan is also being drafted for Suvarnabhumi’s future expansion, which includes the addition of two new passenger terminals: one to the west of the main terminal and one to the north.

It's hard to understand what they're talking about without some kind of diagram.

 

The original master plan (he talks as though one doesn't exist, which isn't true) calls for an additional terminal and satellite to the south of the current facility, and the folks who don't like that plan want to build a new domestic terminal to the north. Going east and west from the terminal you quickly get to the runways, so it's not clear where they would put new buildings. 

[Tracyb]

Whatever happened to the plans for construction of a second airport in Chiang Mai?  Site selection done….land purchases outlined…then “crickets.”

 

In the meantime, CNX is jammed every day now and more international flights are scheduled….

[JBChiangRai]

What's that rustling noise?  Must be all the brown envelopes flying about.

[mikeymike100]

56 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

What's that rustling noise?  Must be all the brown envelopes flying about.

Indeed the contractors and sub contractors must be chomping at the bit to see who gets the Lions share?????