| On March 25th Don Muang airport will reopen to | | | | construction faults at Bangkok's new international |
| regularly schedule domestic traffic. Currently the old | | | | airport Suvarnabhumi, which has the airport |
| Bangkok Thailand airport is being used for charter | | | | designation code of BKK. There have been lots of |
| flights only. Don Muang airport new code will be DMK, | | | | allegations of corruption during the construction at |
| as the old code was assigned to Suvarnabhumi when | | | | the new airport, one of the reasons given to support |
| it opened. There is talk also of resuming some | | | | the coup last year in September. They are looking to |
| regional international flights in to Don Muang as well, | | | | repair alleged construction faults on the runways, |
| the popularity of low cost regional international flights | | | | taxiways and other problems. |
| with carriers like Air Asia and Jet Star which offer | | | | As a tourist flying in there should be no real problems |
| cheap flights to Singapore, Cambodia, Viet Nam and | | | | unless you need to catch a connecting flight out of |
| even to China and Australia being extremely popular | | | | the other airport. Traffic in Bangkok can be |
| due to their cutting the cost by over half for many | | | | measured in meters rather than Kilometers per hours |
| of the cities that they serve, these flights are | | | | on a cross town trip during peak periods. If you |
| extremely popular with businessmen seeking discount | | | | started out on a Friday Afternoon you would most |
| budget flights, as well as tourists to South East Asia. | | | | likely end sometime on Friday evening, sure to test |
| The new Bangkok airport is reportedly already | | | | anyone's patience. Maybe a good service for the |
| maxing out at 45 million passengers a year projected. | | | | Thais to consider would be a helicopter or air shuttle |
| The main reasons given to reopen Bangkok's old | | | | to the other airport. I would sense that for some the |
| airport to regularly scheduled flights was to lighten | | | | added cost to the trip would be worth it to insure |
| the load so that they could examine and repair | | | | that they made their connections. |