More passengers, more flights leads AoT to expand Thai airport capacity
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BANGKOK, July 1 -- On its 35th anniversary today, Airports of Thailand (AoT), operator of the country's six largest airports reported that from October 2013 to May this year its served 60,342,046 passengers, a 4.2 per cent rise, and 419,363 flights, a 13.2 per cent year-on-year increase.

Airports of Thailand (AoT) is about to implement projects to expand the capacity of the country's airports.

AoT board of directors chairman Prasong Poontaneat said the National Council for Peace and Order's committee scrutinizing government spending is examining the second-phase of the Suvarnabhumi airport project and AoT advance passenger screening service project.

After examination to ensure their transparency, AOT will implement the projects directly because it needed to boost the capacity of international airports countrywide, he said.

The AoT chairman said one priority of the agency is to relieve congestion at Phuket airport, originally designed to serve 6.5 million passengers annually but now with actual annual traffic amounting to nearly twice that number with 11 million passengers every year.

AoT operates the six airports in Thailand: Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang International Airports, both serving Bangkok, Phuket International Airport, Chiang Mai International Airport, Hat Yai International Airport, and Mae Fah Luang–Chiang Rai International Airport. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-07-01

He has all the right figures so should be promoted to head of TAT.

555, read the joke of the day. Time for sleep now....

planning on x-raying all incomming bags, that should slow things down to a crawl ?

planning on x-raying all incomming bags, that should slow things down to a crawl ?

I guess that the custom officers will spot check people passing the Green Nothing to declare sign and scan those with large bags.

In 25 years travelling to Thailand , I never been stopped but last week having two large bags I was asked to put my bags on the X-Ray scanner.

After they helped me put back the bags on my trolley and with a smile the Officer said I can go. Took less than a minutes and I was out.

If they proceed like that I guess it will not cause bottle neck at the exit.

If I had a Baht, for every time there's a promise, to expand Swampy ...

But it's actions that count, not unfulfilled promises !

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This not news these projects was already approved last year before the clown took to the streets.

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I think if you look around long enough it is possible to find a statistic for anything you want coming from Thai officials. I seem to remember when the demonstrations were in full force in Bangkok that TAT and AOT were bemoaning the fact that airline arrivals were down and several airlines (e.g. Singapore Airlines) had cancelled flights into Suvarnabhumi. Purportedly the drop off in tourist arrivals would cause the economy to crater. Now comes another statistic from AOT that both arriving passengers and the number of flights into the country were up significantly during that same time period.

It reminds me of the estimated Thai GDP increase in 2014 which was supposed to be around 5%. As I read articles in the unnamed Bangkok newspaper that we are not supposed to quote, the figure is now less than 2%. Not that things are better in the US when Q1 GDP was estimated at -1% then revised down to -3% and the next day the stock market goes up.

Go figure. Here is my statistical prediction; there is a 49.978% chance it will rain in CM tomorrow and a 50.022% chance it won't but on Friday I will revise the number and the percentage chance will be near 100%.

Statistics? It's just plain numbers.

"This many bodies passed through here, this many air planes took off and landed here"

This has nothing to do with predictions or GDPs.

As another poster said, this is old news and work was already approved for expansion at multiple airports in the country.