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Thailand to reopen old airport, giving Bangkok two hubs

 
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:53 am    Post subject: Thailand to reopen old airport, giving Bangkok two hubs Reply with quote

Thailand to reopen old airport, giving Bangkok two hubs

BANGKOK (AFP) - Bangkok will have two international airports, after the government announced it will reopen the decades-old Don Muang amid mounting problems at the gleaming new Suvarnabhumi hub.

"The cabinet has decided to maintain two international airports for our country because there have been many setbacks at Suvarnabhumi Airport and we need to prepare to handle more passengers in the future," army-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont told reporters.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What the airport codes for both the airports?

I assume it is not like Hong kong , where the new airport retained the code.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aarbee wrote:
What the airport codes for both the airports?

I assume it is not like Hong kong , where the new airport retained the code.

Both airports have different codes...:
Suvarnabhoomi- BKK/VTBS
Don Muang- DMK/VTBD
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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aarbee wrote:
What the airport codes for both the airports?

I assume it is not like Hong kong , where the new airport retained the code.

Both airports have different codes...:
Suvarnabhoomi- BKK/VTBS
Don Muang- DMK/VTBD

So was Don Muang ( I assume the international a/p before Suranabhoomi opened) always DMK ?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aarbee wrote:
So was Don Muang ( I assume the international a/p before Suranabhoomi opened) always DMK ?

I think Don Muang was BKK before Suvarnabhoomi opened...then it was assigned as DMK as the airport was to continu operations as charter/cargo airport or something like that
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dom Muang was BKK until Suvarnabhoomi opened. I flew there last year so I know. The new one I believe had the code NBK while Dom Muang was still the pax apt.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

no the new one had the code BKK same as the prev one had flown there in december
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

avbuff wrote:
no the new one had the code BKK same as the prev one had flown there in december


I meant it was NBK while the testing was going on. Which I was I think till Aug/Sep last year. Then in Sept Suvarnabhoomi officially opened and then it got the code BKK and Dom Muang got DMK. Prior to this ie Prior to Sept 06, the new one was NBK and Dom Muang was BKK

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i c didnt know that thanx anyways
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So any clue as to which all airlines have shifted to Don Muang???
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