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madfrog
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Probably it sound like a stupid question but where exactly is this new airport located?
Is it more distant from central Bangkok than Don Muang?
How long will it take to go there by taxi?
Thanks in advance for your answers...
Madfrog
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Posted on: 2:46 am on July 21, 2006
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horntoad
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Airport is a lot farther than Don Muang. I think it will take 45 minutes to an hour to get to Sukumvit or Ratchada area. If you are going to Pattaya, it will be a lot closer because it is in the same direction. I am going to miss Don Muang and might wait until they get the bugs out of the new airport. I think it will be safe but there will be kinks like delays, missed connections and lost luggage to start off. Also the lines were never really that long at DM in my opinion.
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Posted on: 3:17 am on July 21, 2006
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bkkmaster
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Quote: from Gyaos on 11:46 pm on June 20, 2006
Any info on buses or trains going to and from this "new" airport? This is going to be a drag when it comes to efficiency. I just figured out how to go to and from the current airport cheaply and wisely. Now I have to figure it all out again.
You know they should open up a depot inside the city for the A100 - A400 buses. A place that we all can go to as a starting point, rather than waiting at the bus stops. Sure would be nice!
Any Aircon express train to the BTS?
Gyaos.
Same question I've heard that a mass transit system is in the works from the airport to Bangkok. I've also heard speculation that it would be done around the end of 07'. Is any of this true?
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Posted on: 10:08 am on July 21, 2006
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BigDUSA
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New airport cuts 30 minutes off the travel time to Pattaya. I timed it last time at midnight with no traffic. It was exactly 30 minutes from the time we pulled out of Don Muang and passed the airport exit on the way to Pattaya.
Train into the city? It will not be 2007/08.
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Posted on: 11:01 am on July 21, 2006
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Loung Steeb
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Big D sez:
New airport cuts 30 minutes off the travel time to Pattaya. I timed it last time at midnight with no traffic. It was exactly 30 minutes from the time we pulled out of Don Muang and passed the airport exit on the way to Pattaya.
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Good News for the Pattaya Boys.
Bad News for the BKK Boys.
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Posted on: 12:12 pm on July 21, 2006
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PussyLover 69
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Quote: from bkkmaster on 11:16 pm on July 21, 2006
Same question I've heard that a mass transit system is in the works from the airport to Bangkok. I've also heard speculation that it would be done around the end of 07'. Is any of this true?
Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 20 July 2006 :-
The BMTA will today start operating seven new bus services which end at the new airport in Samut Prakan's Bang Phli district. The new routes run from Happy Land, Bang Kapi, Victory Monument, Rangsit and Don Muang airport, and two lines from Samut Prakan city.
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Posted on: 3:43 am on July 22, 2006
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Saturday 22 July 2006 :-
Operations at new airport start Sept 28, 2006 - All systems will take off at 3am
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All systems at Suvarnabhumi airport will be ready for the opening of its full-scale commercial service at 3am on Sept 28 when Don Muang airport will be closed to scheduled flights, caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday. Mr Thaksin was speaking after chairing a meeting of the government's committee supervising the airport's construction.
Airlines will bring their aircraft for departure at the new airport from that time.''Empty planes will wait for take-off at Suvarnabhumi that morning and that will start the full-scale commercial service,'' he said.
All systems at the new Bangkok airport had been completed, and tests had been a success. Faults detected in previous tests had been corrected.
Although tests had not integrated all operating systems and were done only through simulation, they reflected the readiness of the airport. Mr Thaksin said he was confident enough to announce the airport opening on Sept 28.
Suvarnabhumi airport will undergo real tests on July 29 when special flights of six domestic airlines land and take off there. Then on Sept 1, Thai Airways International (THAI) will test its international flights. Public buses will be available at Suvarnabhumi on July 29 and Sept 1 to take passengers to and from the city.
The government would now start public relations work to familiarise people with routes to the airport, he said.
From 3am on Sept 28, Don Muang airport would stop serving regular commercial flights. It will only handle chartered, VIP, private and military flights.
Suvarnabhumi airport boasts the world's largest single passenger terminal that can serve up to 45 million passengers annually.
With that capacity, Mr Thaksin said it may not be necessary to build a separate terminal for budget airlines or look at a second-phase terminal expansion right away. His deputy Gen Chainant Charoensiri said test flights on July 29 would prove if the airport was really ready.
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Posted on: 3:54 am on July 22, 2006
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Yurune
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Airport is a lot farther than Don Muang.
Sorry...not true at all...they are nigh on the same distance from Sukhumvit soi 1.
I live on Upper Sukhumvit and I can see the new airport from my bedroom window, no way I could say the same for Don Muang.
Other than traffic there will be little difference between the two, and in future the new airport will have much better links.
The BKK boys will be just fine
All systems at Suvarnabhumi airport will be ready for the opening of its full-scale commercial service at 3am on Sept 28 when Don Muang airport will be closed to scheduled flights, caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday.
And as we know.....Mr Shinawatra never makes things up.....
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Posted on: 3:57 am on July 22, 2006
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 5:02 pm on July 22, 2006
From 3am on Sept 28, Don Muang airport would stop serving regular commercial flights. It will only handle chartered, VIP, private and military flights.
What I don't get is why they are, effectively, decommissioning the old airport, when it could effectively be used either as a domestic airport, or a home base for the budget airlines - of course, it won't be as prestigious as the shiny new airport.
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Posted on: 7:11 am on July 22, 2006
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Autosweep
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I've booked a flight with EVA due to arrive on Sep 29. I guess this will be at the new airport? Maybe I should rebook a little earlier and arrive at Don Muang.......
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Posted on: 10:24 am on July 22, 2006
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