Swampy Stage 2: Airport plans to welcome 15 million more tourists by 2019

 

Image: tnamcot

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha went to Suvarnabhumi yesterday to inaugurate the start of the phase two building program at Bangkok's main airport.

 

Some 55 billion baht is being spent over the next three years to expand the passenger terminal and plane parking area to the east of the existing building, reported tnamcot.

 

The aim is to increase the capacity of the airport from 45 million passengers and tourists a year to 60 million. This would mean an average of 180,000 passengers passing through the airport daily.

 

Prayut said that the expansion was very important for the country and asked for everyone to work hard and pull together. His government was leading the way, he said, for other governments after to follow and see the project completed.

 

The completion date is slated for November 2019.

 

Prayut also mentioned the government's intention to expand U-Tapao airport on the eastern seaboard and sort out issues relating to "influential persons" that is holding back the further development at Don Muang, Bangkok's second airport.

 

Attracting even more tourists and their dollars was very important for the future of everyone in the country, he reiterated.

 

Source: tnamcot

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-09-15

 

The expansion is very important to the country...or to King Power Duty Free...which is it?

Not difficult to read between the desperate lines of the final sentence. If it wasn't for tourism the economy of Thailand would be going belly up,

Export revenue has been in serious decline since Prayuth took over and shows no signs of improving despite the amount of positive propaganda put out by respective government departments. If it wasn't for exports of electonics and motor vehicle holding the numbers up Thailand would be in very serious trouble with it's balance of trade.

So the message is clear from Prayuth; tourism is our major hope. But a lot can go wrong in the two years before these dreamtime numbers can be realised.

The Minister of Tourism will be wetting herself with excitement and her already fanciful figures will just go up and up.

So they bet on tourists only? That isn't smart though, a few bombs can leave that huge airport empty within days...

 

I hope he also improves the skytrainlines to the airport, if the bts goes to Don Muang soon i will prefer to fly from there..Swampy is just too far away.

 

 

"...His government was leading the way...for other governments after to follow and see the project completed..."

 

 

Surely then, He should be able to sort out issues relating to unnamed "influential persons" holding back the further development at Don Muang?

Its good too see that optimism is alive and well , 

Hope the capacity of immigration is considered as well. The queues nowaday usual start inside the plane and there are no survival packages supplied

3 hours ago, webfact said:

His government was leading the way, he said, for other governments after to follow and see the project completed.

 

Before Prayut it seems, there was nothing.

 

Aside from the fact that one of the first acts of Prayut's coup was to shutdown all government funded projects including airport expansion, he did not lead the way for the expansion project other than to continue its funding authorized by previous governments.

 

Airport expansion, which was supposed to have begun shortly after the airport opened in September 2006, received its first funding in 2009. In December 2011 the Airports of Thailand  announced the speed up of the second phase expansion of Suvarnabhumi Airport to 2016. Prayut is merely continuing with the airport master expansion plans.

 

 

After shutting down the 0 Baht Tours. How many Chinese will come?

Wonderful to have more tourists. But let's have a whole lot of attention paid to good, clean budget hotels, particularly in the provinces. What about motels as well!

Tourism 

Is it not Fact' that recent troubles like Bombing & Zika figures increasing could and will put a dent in these predictions. Especially, when they rear their ugly heads.

4 minutes ago, ScotBkk said:

Tourism 

Is it not Fact' that recent troubles like Bombing & Zika figures increasing could and will put a dent in these predictions. Especially, when they rear their ugly heads.

I think the murders and beating of tourists will eventually put more tourists off coming here and the taxis ripping people off and the buses (with no working brakes) killing people and and and

4 hours ago, waldroj said:

Surely then, He should be able to sort out issues relating to unnamed "influential persons" holding back the further development at Don Muang?

 

If only there was an article in the interim constitution that could be used in situations like this...