Thailand travel Industry sees over 40 million passengers at Don Muang every year. All the major airlines fly to Bangkok, Phuket and Chaing Mai, many fly to Koh Samui.Thailand travel will see the new Bangkok International Airport.....NOW OPEN.... .
Suvarnabhumi Airport pronounced as "su-wan-na-poom" inherited its IATA airport code BKK from Bangkok Don Muang International Airport. In the interim period while both airports were operating (from September 15th to September 28th) Suvarnabhumi used the code NBK. The airport has 2 parallel runways (60 m. wide, 4,000 m. and 3700 m. long) and 2 parallel taxiways to accommodate simultaneous departures and arrivals. It has a total of 120 parking bays (51 with contact gates and 69 remote gates) and 5 of these are capable of accommodating the Airbus A380 aircraft. With a capacity of handling 76 flight operations per hour. Latest Bangkok will now have two international airports; Suvannabhumi and Don Muang, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Tuesday 06 Feb 07Ed