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Million-dollar toilets to be added at Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Airport
October 24th, 2006Suvaranabhumi Airport operators are to take space from Customs, security and Thai Airways International to build new toilets for passengers at a cost of 40 million baht (more than $1 million).
Airports of Thailand President Chotisak Asapaviriya acknowledged the scathing criticism of passengers and the public over the lack of toilets.
He said AOT intends to invest 40 million baht to build more toilet facilities because Suvarnabhumi has fared poorly on this issue. Over 200 toilets for both men and women will be added, he said. But he estimated passengers and airport staff would have to hold for about four months to await completion of construction.
Board of Thailand Airports has resigned
October 24th, 2006The board of directors of Airports of Thailand has resigned, less than one month after it opened Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi international airport, the company said in a statement yesterday.
AOT said in a statement that all of its 14 board members had resigned effective October 18, citing the current changes in the country’s top leadership.
“It is good manners for the board to resign after these political changes, to pave way for the new leaders to appoint a new set of people to work with,” said Chaisak Angkasuwan, the head of the government’s aviation department who is also an AOT board member. A new board will be appointed within one month, he added.
Look back to the old Don Muang Airport (Article)
October 24th, 2006As the door slides open to the vast, empty Terminal One building at Don Muang airport, the holiday-makers pause, as if thinking they are about to enter no-man’s land. Ten flights is a busy day at Don Muang now and many staff long for the headier times of the past The trance is broken as an army of beaming staff rush to serve.
”For airport staff, sitting idle is a big shock from the head-spinning, demanding workload of the past,” said Don Muang director Pinit Saraithong. ”It is no surprise that passengers receive such enthusiastic pampering.”
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