Airport In Rayong Is Operational - Uhtapao

[Ta22]

Seem like the airport at Rayong is working and operational and sending people out of thailand

i think is call Uhtapao .

kindly check or correct my spelling , this may help alot of people

[Ta22]

Hope this help

http://www.utapao.com/

[imaneggspurt]

my friend is there and rang me about 30 mins ago and said it is utter chaos there, he said there is about 5000 people surrounding the airport, all car parks are full and approaching roads blocked,he is going to samui and was about to abandon the idea when he was taken through and checked in,.dosent sound good, a lot of irate mainly asian people he said,.

[tlsdk]

Turkish Airlines flight departed from u-tapao airport to Istanbul last night 220 passengers on board a/c type a.340

[chiang mai]

my friend is there and rang me about 30 mins ago and said it is utter chaos there, he said there is about 5000 people surrounding the airport, all car parks are full and approaching roads blocked,he is going to samui and was about to abandon the idea when he was taken through and checked in,.dosent sound good, a lot of irate mainly asian people he said,.

This information sounds suspicious, Uthapao is in the middle of a military airfield complex and access is tightly controlled, also don't recall seeing any public parking there but maybe wrong.

[Ta22]

i called my embassy , there suggest heading to cambodia - using the land crossinf and may get direct flight to singapore or other country .

[billp]

Stranded Tourists Strain Old Air Base

U-TAPAO, Thailand, Nov 28 (Reuters) (filed at 13:09 UTC)- With one luggage

scanner and a tiny check-in hall, a Vietnam War-era naval air

base in Thailand struggled on Friday to cope with thousands of

tourists left stranded by a political crisis.

The government began shuttling travellers by bus to

U-Tapao, 150 km (90 miles) east of Bangkok, as an alternative

landing site for airlines after protesters forced the closure

of the capital's two main airports this week.

Nearly 60 flights had left by Friday afternoon, while

inbound flights were expected to bring tourists for the peak

holiday season, pushing the air base to its limits.

"Don't forget we're not Suvarnabhumi or Don Muang airports.

The convenience and speed of services should be not be the

same," Rear Admiral Surapong Ayasanond told Reuters at the

base, which normally handles 14 flights a day.

[Los78]

Any information about flights out of Uhtapao to Singapore?

[nonthaburial]

A visiting business friend of mine had a very important meeting in Shanghai, only way he could get out was to drive to Hat yai and arranged a sister company in Malaysia to meet him at the border and drive him to KL - looooooooooooooong trip

[aussiechick]

chiang mai - of course U-tapao has a car park! Why does it sound suspicious? When you drive in have o leave ID at gate and are given a disc which you then exchange on your way out.