Phuket Airport To Double Car Park

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Phuket Airport to double car park

Phuket Vice Governor Weerawat Janpen suggested free parking during

the opening stages to encourage people to use the new car park.

V/Gov Weerawat called for dangerously low hanging power cables in front

of Phuket Airport to be made safe.

PHUKET: -- Phuket International Airport will open its new car park to vehicles by November, Airport Director Duangchai Condee announced today.

“The new car park will be ready to use by this coming high season,” Ms Dungchai told a meeting chaired by Phuket Vice Governor Weerawat Janpen.

The new car park, located in front of the airport cargo buildings just to the south of the main terminal, will accommodate 300 cars, she added.

“We have to confer with AoT [Airports of Thailand] headquarters in Bangkok to confirm any parking fees to be charged and how the car park is to be managed. I believe we will receive a formal reply within one month,” she said.

Airline staff and people working at the airport who often have to park there long term have been consulted.

“They suggested that we install covered footpaths to prevent people using the car park from getting wet when they walk to the main terminal, because it has been raining a lot lately,” Ms Duangchai added.

Vice Governor Weerawat suggested that rates cheaper than those currently charged at the main car park be levied to encourage more people to use the new car park.

“You could even offer free parking in the beginning just to get people to start using it,” he said.

V/Gov Weerawat also raised the problem of low-hanging power cables at the site.

“The airport and the PPEA [Phuket Provincial Electricity Authority] need to get together and see what you can do about this mess,” he said.

Another improvement would be to clearly mark the entrance to the airport.

“I drive past the entrance nearly every time I come here. Would you please consider making it clearer to see,” he said.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/detail.asp?id=10966

-- Phuket Gazette 2011-09-13

[snamos]

move all the illegal and legal taxis into the spare car park....that way paying passengers can use the parking close to the enterance. Is it really that hard? No one wants them out the front there....the last thing a tourist wants to see upon arrival at phuket airport is hundreds of eggheads with "taxi" signs yelling at them. I cant beleive the stupidity of it....i actually believe that it will encourage more taxi parking...because it is at capacity now.

[Valentine]

Building a 2nd tier above the original car park would help as would having limos & mini buses park in an outside area where they can be radioed in as needed to the terminal exit, pick up their passengers & be on their way.

[madmitch]

Building a 2nd tier above the original car park would help as would having limos & mini buses park in an outside area where they can be radioed in as needed to the terminal exit, pick up their passengers & be on their way.

And maybe flying pigs could take over as the preferred mode of transport!

[LivinginKata]

Building a 2nd tier above the original car park would help as would having limos & mini buses park in an outside area where they can be radioed in as needed to the terminal exit, pick up their passengers & be on their way.

That's way far too sensible Valentine. Not likely there would be any thought for car owners that want to use the airport car port. We (vehicle owners) are the devil and need to be chased out of the airport to make space for even more taxis and minibuses and black cabs and ...

[Shot]

Wouldn't have been my first choice of shirts.