Suvarnabhumi Archive for December, 2006
AOT affirms compensation to residents around Suvarnabhumi Airport
Friday, December 8th, 2006The Airports of Thailand company affirms that it will expedite the compensation process to all local residents affected by noise pollution from the Suvarnabhumi Airport operations.
The Director of Suvarnabhumi Airport, Mr. Somchai Sawasdipol, said that the Airports of Thailand company will facilitate the payment of compensation for local residents in 71 homes troubled by noise from airport operations.
Mr. Somchai said that compensation must be conducted in an orderly manner, however, and that local residents pegged for compensation have been divided into several groups, including residents willing to sell their homes at a pre-determined AOT price, and residents unwilling to sell their homes at prices offered by the AOT.
No housing zone grows to 10km around Suvarnabhumi Airport
Thursday, December 7th, 2006The no-housing zone surrounding Suvarnabhumi airport has been extended from a radius of eight to 10km as a long term solution to aircraft noise pollution, Deputy Transport Minister Sansern Wongcha-um said yesterday.
Mr Sansern said the meeting on management of the airport vicinity, which he chaired, agreed yesterday that residents in the designated areas would be subject to expropriation, which would be carried out on a voluntary basis.
The exact area covered in a radius from the airport’s centre and the number of affected homes had yet to be determined.
World’s largest plane landed smoothly at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006The new A380 superjumbo of European aircraft manufacturer Airbus landed smoothly on Tuesday at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport for its first arrival in the kingdom, following a world test flight schedule, showing the new airport’s capacity to handle the giant plane.
The Airbus A380 is scheduled to fly back to Toulouse, France, on Thursday, Airbus director of product marketing, Richard Carcaillet said. The superjumbo, carrying a minimal 55 passengers and five crew, landed at 1.22 pm (0622 GMT).
The world’s largest plane, which can carry up to 555 passengers, stopped in several Asian countries, including Singapore and Hong Kong, in its 18-day global test that was wrapped up last week.
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