Phuket’s X-Terminal officially opened
Phuket Gazette


The X-Terminal grand opening was led by Director of AoT Pongsak Semson (left), President of AoT Makin Petplai (center) and Director of Phuket International Airport Pratuang Sornkham. Photo: PR PPAO

PHUKET: -- Phuket International Airport’s X-Terminal was officially opened yesterday, after a successful trial period serving Chinese and Russian charter flights.

“From now on, all international charter flights will check in at X-Terminal,” said Makin Petplai, president of Airports of Thailand (AoT).

“The check-in system works well. Passengers check in at the X-Terminal, then take the shuttle to the main terminal to clear Immigration and Customs. The shuttle bus runs every 15 minutes.”

The new terminal also has baggage transferring services, money exchange booths, a restaurant and shops, Mr Makin added.

“The airport has about 210 flights and 32,000 passengers per day. The main terminal can only support 2,400 passengers per hour, but during rush periods we have had up to 3,000. We were facing an overload and needed more room (story here).

“The X-Terminal will give us some space in the main terminal. It can support 1,000 customers per hour,” Mr Makin said.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2014/Phuket-s-X-Terminal-officially-opened-25690.html


-- Phuket Gazette 2014-02-26

X-Terminal, offering sexy massage and pole dancers?

This still doesn't avert the cluster f*** at customs and immigration. Nothing to help the overloaded airport, but a nice shiny new building that undoubtedly had a lot of pork built into it.

steelepulse, on 26 Feb 2014 - 10:05, said:

This still doesn't avert the cluster f*** at customs and immigration. Nothing to help the overloaded airport, but a nice shiny new building that undoubtedly had a lot of pork built into it.

So true, and on top of it all, you could be waiting 15 minutes for the shuttle bus, instead of a 1 minute walk.

This sounds like just more faffing about and as said turns a 1 minute walk into being herded onto buses one lap of the terminal just to get you in the mood ready for your 7hr + flight, I have never had any issue with flying inernational from Phuket, why do they always waste resources on things when there is loads of crap that needs sorting out??? Ahh, LOS