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Home » Traffic and transport » Suvarnabhumi waiting times are getting longer and longer
Suvarnabhumi waiting times are getting longer and longer
The waiting times at Suvarnabhumi airport are already not childish and they are only getting longer.
The airport, which was designed for 45 million passengers, now has to handle 47 million passengers. In 2012, 49,4 million passengers are expected and this will continue until 68 million in 2016.
After Suvarnabhumi was taken into use five years ago, expansion plans should have started immediately. Now they are still on the drawing board. "Expansion of the airport should have been carried out years ago," admits Somchai Sawasdeepon, acting president of Airports of Thailand. The airport hopes to start building a new terminal next year that can handle 20 million passengers. The construction period is 5 years.
The cargo terminal has no problems. It is calculated at 3 million tons per year and now processes 1,24 million tons.
[Would the Thai Tourist Board warn tourists about the extremely long waiting times?]
When? Been five times this year. Check in 10-20 minutes Check out 5-15 minutes. Different arrival and departure times. No problem with domestic flights either.
In January for the first time had to wait a little longer approx. 30 min.
Lines are indeed getting longer, on arrival in August 45min to 1 hour in line at immigration. And on departure in June 30 minutes in line. If those numbers are correct, it is better to be at the airport 4 hours before departure.
If the waiting times become too long, you can always divert to Don Meuang, I think, right?
In the last the 3 years I have been there 4 times, 1 time in high season, my maximum waiting time to enter the country including luggage was 25 minutes and outgoing was 1 time 30 minutes, but usually 20 minutes, Schiphol is much worse.
Just an addition, I think it is an extremely annoying airport, there is nothing to do, unlike the old airport, you could spend your time there between the switch from domestic to intercontinental flights, I still have never bored there.
On the way back we spent a few very pleasant hours at 1 of the bars under those tent-like roofs!
It shows disinterest if, as a minister, you only realize after 5 years that you should have continued building the expansion 5 years ago. Thailand, which needs tourists to maintain its economy, must realize that such mistakes will be punished, because there are several good holiday destinations in Asia. And they make grateful use of these gross underestimates. A passenger who has flown for 8 to 15 hours wants to get to his destination quickly upon arrival, because he or she is exhausted and certainly does not want to wait in a line for 1 hour or more. These kinds of silly underestimates cost the Thai state a lot of money. Sometimes I think; Even that doesn't interest them or they don't realize it, in both cases it's a shameless failure. jantje