New Airport Could Be Delayed A Year

[moebius]

Well they could use Don Muang for short shuttle flights to the new airport to bypass traffic.

[BAF]

TS is but a small player compared to those in the really big league!!!

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In fact it really was a strange example but it was Heng's not mine..

Anyway, other than Boeing there are/have been MANY other big and smaller examples of successful aircraft manufacters in the USA and Europe.

And... we are talking about Thailand's probable richest man and his business empire. Tell me that he doesn't have the financial means to try and make BIGGER money on the open richer foreign markets if he felt he had some chance not being backed up by the tricks he can play as Prime Minister and as a highly connected individual in Thailand's pecking order.

[singa-traz]

Yea and too bad there is no exit ramp off the Chonburi elevated tollway to the new airport.

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I assume you mean an exit that goes directly to the airport ... because there is one just a few km before ... the second exit, if I recall properly.

[NamKAheng]

The goal for the corrupt politicians is not to open tha airport on time it is to stretch those delay has much has they can to have extra time to fill their pocket.

[Heng]

TS is but a small player compared to those in the really big league!!!

In fact it really was a strange example but it was Heng's not mine..

Anyway, other than Boeing there are/have been MANY other big and smaller examples of successful aircraft manufacters in the USA and Europe.

And... we are talking about Thailand's probable richest man and his business empire. Tell me that he doesn't have the financial means to try and make BIGGER money on the open richer foreign markets if he felt he had some chance not being backed up by the tricks he can play as Prime Minister and as a highly connected individual in Thailand's pecking order.

The point was that Boeing's locked in gov't contracts and huge gov't subsidies weren't a "fair" playing field in the same way the Thaksin's communications concession isn't fair towards other players in the market.

Life isn't fair (neither are playing fields... except MAYBE once in awhile in sports), whining about the playing field is like whining about gravity.... it's just a fact of life.

[BAF]

The point was that Boeing's locked in gov't contracts and huge gov't subsidies weren't a "fair" playing field in the same way the Thaksin's communications concession isn't fair towards other players in the market.

No, the point is that there are/have been MANY other big and smaller examples of successful aircraft manufacters in the USA (and Europe).

Life isn't fair (neither are playing fields... except MAYBE once in awhile in sports), whining about the playing field is like whining about gravity.... it's just a fact of life. 

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Yes, life isn't fair.

But in some places in MUCH more unfair than in others.

If the average citizen from those places fails to recognize that (usually because of the state of ignorance in which they are forced by their very "loved" leaders) they won't be able to change the situation, and they are ultimately the only victims of the situation.

Comparing the choices, rights, protections and the overall situation of the average American (or Euroepan) customer with the choices, rights, protections and the overall situation of the average Thai customer and saying that they are pretty much the same is quite... laughable.

[kidtongue]

Airport could be delayed a year

Suriya: Sticking to September deadline 

BANGKOK: -- Construction work which is behind schedule could delay the opening of Suvarnabhumi airport for a year to September next year at the latest, a source at New Bangkok International Airport Co (NBIA) said yesterday.

Despite promises by Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit to finish construction of all facilities by Sept 29 this year, the source, who is directly involved in the project, was pessimistic that could be achieved.

Construction was likely to last until December, but then another three months would be needed to test system integration and another six more months for virtual operations, the source said.

Thawatchai Suthiprapha, the ITO project manager, said the consortium, comprising Italian-Thai Development, Takenaka and Obayashi, would talk to NBIA on Tuesday on the working plan for the scanners and would try to meet deadline.

--Bangkok Post 2005-07-23

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George, Are you "anti Thai" ? The only news etc that you ever post on this board is always negative and always results in hundreds of posts from people laughing and taking a jab at Thai people, do you filter this news and never post anything positive ?

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Let's see if we've got this correct : A government project, that has been on the drawing boards for more than 30 years and barely got started until after the Japanese threatened to walk, and is obviously behind, is consider negative?

One might think that foreigners would be screaming their heads off back home