Grand Plans Are Afoot To Grow Thailand’s Main Airports

Rendering of a runway

The airport’s new south terminal, shown here in rendering, would handle around 70 million passengers.

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When Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) opened in 2006, it was a state-of-the-art facility designed to handle 45 million passengers annually. Almost 19 years later and having grown passenger volumes to 60 million, infrastructure improvements have been slow to keep up with demand. Kerati Kijmanawat...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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