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In September 2006, Don Mueang Airport was closed and to be replaced by the new Suvarnabhumi Airport, [5] before reopening on 24 March 2007 after renovations. Since the reopening, Don Mueang has become a regional commuter flight hub and the de facto low-cost airline hub. In 2015, it became the world's largest low-cost carrier airport. [6]
Suvarnabhumi Airport is, as of 2011, the fifth busiest airport in Asia. Don Mueang Airport is the country's second busiest airport. Statistical sources ...
Suvarnabhumi International Airport (IATA: BKK, ICAO: VTBS) [4] [5] is the main international airport serving Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. [6] [7] Located mostly in Racha Thewa subdistrict, Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan province, it covers an area of 3,240 ha (32.4 km 2; 8,000 acres), making it one of the biggest international airports in Southeast Asia and a regional hub for aviation.
The Don Mueang–Suvarnabhumi–U-Tapao high-speed railway, officially known as the High-Speed Rail Linking Three Airports Project (Thai: โครงการรถไฟความเร็วสูงเชื่อม 3 สนามบิน) is the second high-speed rail line project in Thailand, being due to open in 2029 [1] between Don Mueang International Airport, Suvarnabhumi Airport ...
As of April 2020, the Don Mueang–Suvarnabhumi–U-Tapao rail connection was still described as is a "proposed railway". It has been envisaged to partly run as a high-speed line. [31] In October 2021, state authorities announced that the link connecting all three airports will be ready in four years. [32]
The Sa Pathum airfield, previously used as the main field, was replaced by the Suvarnabhumi Airport on September 28, 2006. During the same time, AOT came to administrate Suvarnabhumi. In the following years, Bangkok Airport's name was changed back to Don Mueang Airport on March 13, 2007.
Suvarnabhumi, which replaced Don Mueang as Bangkok's main airport at its opening in 2006, served 47,910,744 passengers in 2011, making it the world's sixteenth-busiest airport by passenger volume and the fifth-busiest in the Asia Pacific region. [44] This amount of traffic was already over its designed capacity of 45 million passengers.
Map of Thailand. This is a list of airports in Thailand.There are 39 commercial service airports in Thailand, 10 of which are international airports. [1] The Department of Airports (DOA) managed 29 airports, while 7 airports are managed by Airports of Thailand (AOT), 3 airports are managed by Bangkok Airways (BA), and 1 airport is managed by the Royal Thai Navy (RTNV). [2]