Average daily passenger traffic through Bangkok's new airport between Dec 28 and Jan 3 is expected to be 121,000 passengers, exceeding the airport's designed capacity of 120,000 passengers, said Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT). About 17,000 more passengers are expected to go through the airport each day in the period, above the daily average of 104,285 passengers on normal days. In other words, there would be 850,000 more passengers passing through the airport in the period.

Lets count: Dec 28, 29, 30, 31, Jan 1, 2, 3. That's seven days. Seven days times 17,000 passangers is only 119,000 more passengers.

Hmmm: 104,285 plus 17,000 is 121,285. And 121,285 times seven days is 848,995.

So, the article should have said that there would be about 850,000 passengers passing through the airport, not 850,000 more.

Suvarnabhumi: busiest airport during New Year

During the New Year's celebratoin, a report shows that over 500,000 air travelers have been seen at Suvarnabhumi Airport’s immigration counter, and the number is claimed to be the highest amount since its opening.

Police Major General Taweesak Tujinda, the Commissioner of National Airport Immigration Division, says the report shows that 582,610 air passengers presented themselves at the immigration counter between December 28th, 2007 and January 3rd, 2008.

The number of arrival passengers stands at 298,994 while the number of departure passengers stays at 283,616. This busiest phase at the new airport is said to have created a huge amount of financial in-flows circulating in the aviation business industry.

At the same time, the immigration has also placed guards on alert for foreign criminals who might enter the airport during the festive seasons.

Immigration’s report shows 19 culprits were captured during the officials’ surveillance.

- ThaiNews