Don Mueang Airport gears up for Chinese New Year



BANGKOK, 25 January 2016 (NNT) - Don Mueang Airport is expecting a large number of tourists during the upcoming Chinese New Year which will be celebrated in February.

According to Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT), Pier 5 and South Corridor of Don Mueang Airport which are now under renovation will be open for service at the end of this month (January). When finished, the airport’s capacity will increase from 18.5 million to 30 million passengers a year.

The completion schedule is ahead of the upcoming Chinese New Year which will be celebrated between February 3rd and February 15th. The AOT expects up to 40,000 passengers during the celebration.

In order to further enhance its services, Don Mueang Airport is also renovating its facility whereas Terminal 2 is scheduled to be fully open for service on March 8th which marks the airport’s 102nd anniversary.


-- NNT 2016-01-25

Jolly, jolly. That will be a thrilling new year celebration with our Chinese friends. As I am in Holland at the time I cannot join in. Lucky devil me.

Good on the workers for bringing in the available capacity to a higher level , anything that can reduce the pressure on Suvarnabhumi airport has to be a good thing for all peoples arriving or leaving from Bangkok.

"Chinese new year a look forward to prosperity and remembering the past and hopping for good fortune "

So year of the Monkey lucky number is 4 and 9

lucky days are the 14th and 28th

lucky colours white blue and gold

lucky flowers chrysanthemum , crepe -myrtle

lucky months 8 and 12

lucky directions north , northwest and west ,

Monkey years 1920, 1932, 1944 1956 1968 1980 1992 2004 2016 ,

Happy new year , again

Well for sure don't bother with putting new toilet rolls in the toilets, they won't get used.

I thought Terminal-2, the new Domestic-Terminal, was supposed to have been opened (and only a year late) on 24th December 2015 ?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/881319-a-look-inside-the-new-domestic-terminal-at-don-mueang-photos/

Indeed my family flew through it earlier this month !

Yet now the article says "Don Mueang Airport is also renovating its facility whereas Terminal 2 is scheduled to be fully open for service on March 8th which marks the airport’s 102nd anniversary."

How many times will it be completed, and reopened, on paper at least ?

Edited January 25, 201610 yr by Ricardo

...at an extra 1000 baht a head...and whatever other extra charges they have added these past 6 months....they have a lot to celebrate......

I'll make sure to avoid all tourist attractions that week. They'll be packed with buses. Accidentally, "tried" to visit the Grand Palace last year. What an absolute mess. It was horrible.

Shows how cock eyed AOT figures are, they just pick numbers out of the sky. 40,000 over a 13 days period is expected. That is a rate of 1.123 m/year. TAT expecting 5 million this year.

I thought Chinese New Year would be the high season

Shows how cock eyed AOT figures are, they just pick numbers out of the sky. 40,000 over a 13 days period is expected. That is a rate of 1.123 m/year. TAT expecting 5 million this year.

I thought Chinese New Year would be the high season

"Chinese new year would be high season"

Good to know you are not a travel agent for the tourism industry of Thailand

Reading the headline for some reason Carl Douglas " Kung <deleted> Fighting" is running through my head...

Edited January 25, 201610 yr by mca

Good, perhaps now they can prod the cattle straight into buses without blocking the entire terminal.