Transport Ministry to turn Nakhon Ratchasima Airport into new maintenance center

BANGKOK, 18 May 2012 (NNT) – The Transport Ministry is preparing to turn the Nakhon Ratchasima Airport into a new aircraft maintenance center.

Deputy Transport Minister Chatchart Sithipan said that he has assigned the Department of Civil Aviation to consider transferring the operations of some regional airports to Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT).

Mr. Chatchart said that the AOT is likely to be able to administer and fully utilize the capacity of several local airports, such as the Nakhon Ratchasima Airport, which locates on a 4,000-rai plot of land not far from Bangkok.

The Deputy Transport Minister recommended that the Nakhon Ratchasima Airport should be turned into the aircraft maintenance and service center as it has only been serving charter flights nowadays.

Mr. Chatchart said that the planned transformation of Don Mueang Airport into another service center may not be feasible now, as there have been talks of a plan to transfer some commercial flight services to this airport due to an increasingly crowded situation at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

-- NNT 2012-05-18

Sounds like a great plan. Away from flooding, convenient to Bangkok, and should inject some revenue into the town of Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat)

Best of all.... it'll be another hub.

Mr. Chatchart said that the planned transformation of Don Mueang Airport into another service center may not be feasible now, as there have been talks of a plan to transfer some commercial flight services to this airport due to an increasingly crowded situation at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

The Thai Government and AOT really need to come up with a feasible aviation policy relating to Don Muang and Swampy. Mixed messages being sent out all the time, must really confuse the likes of Air Asia etc etc.

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Mr. Chatchart said that the planned transformation of Don Mueang Airport into another service center may not be feasible now, as there have been talks of a plan to transfer some commercial flight services to this airport due to an increasingly crowded situation at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

The Thai Government and AOT really need to come up with a feasible aviation policy relating to Don Muang and Swampy. Mixed messages being sent out all the time, must really confuse the likes of Air Asia etc etc.

Not to mention having the city of Bangkok lose out on multi-million dollar airline maintenance centers to other cities/provinces.