Congratulations To Suvarnabhumi Airport

[k raj]

Congratulations to bangkok people and thai people on opening of the suvarnabhumi airport.Let this new suvarbhumi airport inspire thailand to provide highest standards of service for thailand and rest of the world.This new airport will bring more people to come to thailand's friendly land.All glories to suvarnabumi airport and all world travel people coming to thailand or transiting from thailand.

[Nikkijah]

It's only a new airport...

[kayo]

Hi SuvyBuvi! Welcome to service.

I hope to have many more heart wrenching and nerve wrecking experiences with you, as I did your older sister.

You want short takeoff or long take off... suvy`s got it all!

[a3]

All hail the new airport.

[bks]

So has the airport actually opened this morning as planned? If so how did it go?

[kalaminsa]

All hail the new airport.

According to AOT's realtime flight schedule no flights have yet landed or departed ! (05:41 )

http://www2.airportthai.co.th/html/b-sche-r.html

[Cool Water Palace]

Just checked Heathrow live departures. Only one flight seems to be leaving tonight to Bangkok, and Sydney (Bangkok via Sydney - so they say! How do they manage that?) so they reduced flights to one in line, I imagine, with the comments that airlines were being cautious about running their usual schedules on the first day. That one flight left 2 hours late - coincidence or what?

[Ricardo]

Best Wishes to Suvarnabhumi. Hope it all goes well.

Looking forward to seeing for myself - in November - when things have settled-down.

[Soju]

Yes, congratulations to Thailand and it's people for building and opening their new airport. I shall be leaving in a few hours for my first flight into Suvarnabhumi - one out of about ten trips I'm planning in just the first month of it's operation. I'm sure to experience many fond memories at Suvarnabhumi in the years to come. Well done Thailand!

[think_too_mut]

I'm wondering where are now those doom sayers who, in spite of all news still held the new airport won't open as planned.

They even had "mates confirmed to fly in October to/from Don Muang".

How silly some people can be.

Edited September 28, 2006 by think_too_mut

[pap]

which plan?

[think_too_mut]

which plan?

One that delivered what was in it 3am this morning.

Did you hear?

Edited September 28, 2006 by think_too_mut

[aussie dollar]

http://www.flightstats.com/go/FlightStatus...Date=2006-09-28

[tartempion]

I'm wondering where are now those doom sayers who, in spite of all news still held the new airport won't open as planned.

They even had "mates confirmed to fly in October to/from Don Muang".

How silly some people can be.

As planned?????

Wasd this airport not 30 years in the planning???

How many times was the plan changed???

How many people filled their pockets with millions of corruption money?

Are taxis readily available? At what cost?

I the limo maffia still authorised to operate?

Will the touts be hanging around as in the old airport?

A lot of questions still to be answerred...

[joeyswags]

I'm wondering where are now those doom sayers who, in spite of all news still held the new airport won't open as planned.

They even had "mates confirmed to fly in October to/from Don Muang".

How silly some people can be.

As planned?????

Wasd this airport not 30 years in the planning???

How many times was the plan changed???

How many people filled their pockets with millions of corruption money?

Are taxis readily available? At what cost?

I the limo maffia still authorised to operate?

Will the touts be hanging around as in the old airport?

A lot of questions still to be answerred...

Yeah...like, will my flight to SFO tomorrow at 6am leave on time?

[Plus]

From BP breaking news:

"The name Suvarnabhumi was given by the king, so we will need the king's attendance for the grand opening" later on, Chalit told a press conference at the airport.

Nonetheless, Chalit insisted the airport was "100 per cent ready for operations."

Grand opening later on. It ain't over yet.

[think_too_mut]

Some still can't comprehend that the airport was open 3am on September 28. 2006.

Some still can't forgive us that they were wrong and what rubbish they were using to back their standpoints.

[leisurely]

The real time schedules are very useful. Thank you to whoever posted that link.

The first post was a bit OTT, as someone else said 'it's just an airport'

[Plus]

People were hoping that they open the airport when it is ready. It didn't happen. They opened it anyway. What is to be so victorious about? They could have opened it in July, or in August - it doesn't really matter if they just want it "opened".

[Plus]

I see about a dozen flights scheduled to arrive around 6-7 AM that have still not landed. It's 9.15 now.

[think_too_mut]

People were hoping that they open the airport when it is ready. It didn't happen. They opened it anyway. What is to be so victorious about? They could have opened it in July, or in August - it doesn't really matter if they just want it "opened".

They could have opened it with runways only 3 years ago, with no buildings, with soldiers handling baggagae barehanded - but they did not.

Hope there is someone selling food and drinks around Don Muang to those who are there to meet their "mates confirmed to fly into Don Muang".

[joeyswags]

Some still can't comprehend that the airport was open 3am on September 28. 2006.

Some still can't forgive us that they were wrong and what rubbish they were using to back their standpoints.

Forgive "you" for me callin United time and time again and being told the wrong information. Okay what they told me may have been rubbish, but calling the people who are going to fly my butt home seemed like a reasonable course of action.

Anyways..i am fully excepting the fact that im going to Suvarnabhumi in the morning. Is it too much to be worried that my flight may be delayed? Okay..i back down. Your smart and im dumb. Your handsome and im not. What else do you require..."IM TERRIBLY SORRY FOR NOT BELIEVING YOU THAT I WOULD BE FLYING OUT OF THE NEW AIRPORT, IN THE FUTURE I WILL TAKE WHAT EVER TELL ME AS TRUE, PLEASE PLEASE FORGIVE ME" can you also tell me the lotto numbers this week..

[Plus]

They DO have 800 soldiers ready to handle the luggage manualy.

There are no reports in the Nation at all and BPs are five hours old, as if there is no press covering the event and interviewing the first passengers. They are expecting 120,000 today, and 800 flights. I'm not very good at reading that flight information table. Maybei it's not in real time.

TTM - you are right, people banking on common sense lost, DM was closed, but that doesn't make SA any more "readier".

[Soju]

According to AOT's realtime flight schedule no flights have yet landed or departed ! (05:41 )

http://www2.airportthai.co.th/html/b-sche-r.html

That's evidently a link used by Don Muang and is no longer active. If you look on their main page, they make no mention even of Suvarnabhumi. The date on the page is "Copyright 2000, Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited", so that should give you some clue. Wonder when they'll update their website.

[travlling]

From the two links already provided, it looks as if the everything is well in the "new" BKK........ I am just glad not to be landing until jan 2nd ...as for how long it took to get this airport up and running, what did you expect?....Thai's in a hurry?

travlling

[think_too_mut]

I see about a dozen flights scheduled to arrive around 6-7 AM that have still not landed. It's 9.15 now.

Could be something of "unimaginable scale"?

[SMS]

Got this News alert from nation:-

Aviation, air traffic, ground operations went smoothly at Suvarnabhumi Airport's official opening at 3.05 a.m Thur, all flights transfered to new airport.

[Soju]

They DO have 800 soldiers ready to handle the luggage manualy.

There are no reports in the Nation at all and BPs are five hours old, as if there is no press covering the event and interviewing the first passengers. They are expecting 120,000 today, and 800 flights. I'm not very good at reading that flight information table. Maybei it's not in real time.

TTM - you are right, people banking on common sense lost, DM was closed, but that doesn't make SA any more "readier".

Are you talking about the flightstats.com link? I can't get it to work. Anyone got an alternate link? Checking a few flights on the airline's own website, flights are taking off and landing. I think the airport transfer has left a lot of websites using old information and they can't cope with the changeover from Don Muang to Suvarnabhumi. I saw one news report by someone who posted here that flights are landing at Suvarnabhumi. Give the papers a bit more time, it's still early in the day.

[Soju]

People were hoping that they open the airport when it is ready. It didn't happen. They opened it anyway. What is to be so victorious about? They could have opened it in July, or in August - it doesn't really matter if they just want it "opened".

If they waited until the airport was 100% ready, it would have never opened. When opening dates keep getting moved time after time, it starts to become a joke and nobody working on the project really cares any more about getting it finished. The project stalls out, or progresses at a snail's place. IMHO, Thaksin did the right thing and forced the contractors to get on the ball and finish the thing rather than thinking they were on a permanent vacation. No airport I've ever seen has been 100% ready to open when it opened. Granted Suvarnabhumi isn't as close to being 100% ready as many other recent airport openings, but the planes do seem to be taking off and landing, and most all of the systems are working at least to some degree. We'll just have to wait and see whether the problems cause major extended inconveniences or not. Many suggested the opening be delayed by a few months, right in the middle of high-season. Personally, I think that would have been a bigger mistake because likely the airport would not have been much further along by then and the problems would have been compounded with the larger volumes of traffic.

[Plus]

Flightstat site appears to be in real time, about 20 flights have already landed. I don't know how to navigate to arrivals on the site, though, and it doesn't show the current time, either GMT or local.

How difficult it is to report of the first flight landing and interview one or two passengers? Nothing on the Nation site at all.