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Suvarnabhumi Airport Replaces Don Muang Airport in Bangkok

by Ruth on October 6th, 2006

Last week, on Sept 28 precisely, the new Bangkok International Airport, also known as Suvarnabhumi Airport was officially opened, replacing the aging and overloaded Don Muang Airport as Bangkok’s primary airport for all commercial airline flights.

NZ Herald says it’s Asia’s largest airport, but Wikipedia says it’s about 7,000 sq m smaller than Hong Kong International Airport. It’s supposed to have the world’s tallest control tower, though (Is that an asset? Towers and airplanes in the same sentence still gives me the shivers!). Its opening had a bit of birth pains… which is rather expected, I guess. Give it a few weeks, months perhaps, before everything really flows, and it might just give the Singapore International Airport tough competition for the next Best Asian Airport Award.

[Photo: Wikipedia]

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