Thailand Airports Update
December 3, 2008 – 3:41 pm
The anti-government protestors that have been holding Bangkok’s two major airports – Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang – as well as Thailand’s tourism industry and image under siege, are packing up and leaving today, after having caused long-lasting damage to the economy.
However is it at all clear, when Suvarnabhumi or Don Muang Airports will be fully operational despite the autorities delaring that they will be fully open by Friday midday. The first Thai Airways International flight to land at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, TG 2109, arrived shortly after 14:00 today, 3 December 2008, from Phuket. International flights are expected to gradually resume Thursday.
It will take the airport some time before it can fully resume operations. For airlines, there is also the complication of newly scheduled flights to other areas of Thailand, giving priority to stranded passengers, and those passengers that should have been leaving around now anyway etc.
Then of course there is security, something both Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang seem to have a problem with, when you consider they have been held under siege by pretty much unarmed protestors for over one whole week. With protestors being allowed to roam free, some pretty intense security checks are going to have to take place before traffic can resume.
Watch this blog for further updates.
