Suvarnabhumi Airport Facelift Starts Next Month

[AjarnMartin]

"The international airport will have 180 less flights or 10 million less passengers each day after budget airline Thai AirAsia relocates to Don Mueang airport on Monday"

How do you get 10 million passengers into 180 airplanes?

Me think......180 flight/day and 10 million passengers/year.

Yes EOW, but all of our members have'nt got the brains to work that one out......Well done !

But some of them can spell... :-)

[Arkady]

The head of Swampy Immigration recently said in an interview that many of his officers are tied up at any given time taking wanted people they have apprehended trying to leave the country to the police stations that have issued arrest warrants for them. If really true, having airport immigration officers escort prisoners to cop shops all over Thailand seems a bizarre use of manpower that could easily be solved through cooperation between police divisions or an order from the top.

[Arkady]

Now they have electronic gates for Thais arriving, I wonder if they can see their way clear to doing the same for departing Thai passengers. At that frees up several immigration officers. Last time my wife sailed through electronically in seconds and so did using the Thai queue, as I am allowed to in my own right as a permanent resident, which had no one in front of me. The officer told me I could use that queue while travelling with Thai family, even without realising I am a PR. So I think that means that others travelling with Thai family can use the Thai queue, while their Thai family use the electronic gates. Anyway the officers in the Thai queue have hardly anything to do now but I think they have to keep the manual queue to handle Thais who can't use the electronic gates due to either problems with their passports or the gate, or inability to use the technology.

[belg]

i guess they went to the local future teller to ask for the good news... they can predict more and more people? political instability, floods, thaksin comming back into the country, some hi-so's dead that would possibly freeze up the country, etc...

[Rancid]

I think Suvunibhumi is 100% Thai through and through, it is a welcome to the Land of Smiles and a preview of exactly what will be awaiting you in every step and aspect of your holiday.

[Samedeepwaterasyou]

I think Suvunibhumi is 100% Thai through and through, it is a welcome to the Land of Smiles and a preview of exactly what will be awaiting you in every step and aspect of your holiday.

Well I am yet to see a Kathoey immigration officer ...

[xen]

Went through immigration and departures a week or so back and i fail to see the thinking behind the change of going upstairs to go thru the scanners and x-ray check then having to do a loop back to join the immigration line. It does save space i guess having the two functions sitting on top of each other but it is not really an improvement over having the scanners and the x-rays after immigration. The Snake line through immigration was a little quicker but there were still groups jumping the line and then we were allotted queues and i got stuck on a queue that took ages . I am not really a complaining but i fail to see the logic of this change .

[Rob8891]

There should a penalty of some sort for people sit in a plane for x amount of hours, then stand in the que for x amount of minutes then finally decide to fill out the immigration form at the counter.

Maybe a chute they slide down into a pool of hungry sharks for the rest to watch while they wait

One simple solution (OK.... with those words my argument gets flawed and flamed)...is to have a member of staff at the start of the snake, only allowing people past with a completed immigration card. It works OK in other airports.

If they succeed in speeding up baggage delivery to 20-30 minutes, we're all screwed, because they'll never get pax through immigration.... To date, I have never had to wait long for my bags, but that's probably down to the amount of time I've queued at immigration.

[fiberman]

When I arrived at BKK airport Thursday morning the queue at immigration was out of the area down into the concourse and stopped at the moving walkway. I decided to walk further down to the second immigration area, there were 2 people waiting! I was through in under 2 minutes. No attempt was being made to move people from one area to the next.

As regards filling in immigration cards the last couple of times I have passed through there, their has always been someone checking cards and refusing entry to the line if the cards are not correctly filled in.

[MikeOboe57]

According to the other paper AoT plans to prevent arriving passengers from exiting the terminal at the 4th level to grab one of the incoming taxis there. AoT claims it wants to protect passengers from scammers which have moved up there, but this is of course BS. When I want to grab a taxi on the 4th level I don't pay attention to any "hello meester" touts..

[mok199]

"The international airport will have 180 less flights or 10 million less passengers each day after budget airline Thai AirAsia relocates to Don Mueang airport on Monday"

How do you get 10 million passengers into 180 airplanes?

...economy class....

[edwinchester]

"The international airport will have 180 less flights or 10 million less passengers each day after budget airline Thai AirAsia relocates to Don Mueang airport on Monday"

How do you get 10 million passengers into 180 airplanes?

Usual crapply written article.

180 flights per day with an average passenger load of 150 equals about 10 million over a year.