Phang Nga airport plans shrouded in controversy

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Phang Nga airport plans shrouded in controversy

Phuket Gazette

 

The registered location of the 2,000 rai of forest land (mainly palm and coconut trees) is Baan Tha Dindaeng, Lam Kaeng Village, in Phang Nga’s Thai Muang district. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

PHANG NGA: -- The proposal for a full-scale commercial airport in Phang Nga, first revealed by the Phuket Gazette a year ago, has a long way to travel before it can hand a prospectus to more potential investors.

Enthusiasm from its lead drivers, however, Bangkok Airways and the Phang Nga provincial governor, continues unabated.

Governor Pakkapong Tawiphat told the Phuket Gazette that the project “must go on for the sake of Phang Nga’s provincial economy and for the Thai tourism industry as a whole.” 

 

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-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2017-07-03

[Deli]

And pigs will fly again... not in this lifetime. 

[eeyang wah]

In a sparsely populated spot less than an hour's drive from Phuket airport, I fail to see the point of this project apart from some obvious pocket-lining.