When flying to Phuket, it was also easy. The nice travel companion and our friends brought us to the check-in counters, then we could put our minds at rest in a restaurant and enjoy the time until departure. landing in Bangkok from Phuket - -
The trip home was more difficult, first the right level and then in the hundreds of Check-in counters to find the right one. Fortunately, we did not take care of us's luggage that we had at the Phuket airport have it checked immediately. But despite the bewildering size and the many people we were first made at check-in time, and later at the security checkpoints to the departure gate, even went to a restaurant is still pending.
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The Suvarnabhumi International Airport (Thai ท่าอากาศยาน สุวรรณภูมิ) also New Bangkok International Airport (NBIA) or Second Bangkok International Airport (SBIA), is a major international airport near the Thai city of Bangkok.
first plans to build a new Bangkok airport, they had prepared in the 1960s. Economic crises, changing governments, inefficient authorities and not least the corruption delayed the implementation of the plans but for more than 30 years. Thai authorities described the project as the longest in duration airport project in the world.
increasingly Only when the previous Bangkok's Don Mueang airport in the early 1990s, reached its capacity limits due to lack of structural expansion options, was the start of construction of the new airport.
went from an international architectural competition, the Chicago architectural firm Murphy / Jahn, led by the German-American architect Helmut Jahn in 1994 emerged as the winner. Two years later, with some difficulties, the New Bangkok International Airport-based company. It did, however, due to political and economic circumstances (in particular the economic crisis of 1997) for another six years before it could be started in January 2002 with the construction work.
During the first phase, when the airport from 2005, some already fully operational and was like during the test phase, the airport was assigned to the provisional IATA code NBK. With the start of the IATA code BKK was, from the previous airport Don Mueang International Airport. The name Suvarnabhumi was built by King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX.) Selected, meaning gold or golden peninsula country.
Airport on 28 Date September 2006 at 03:00 clock operation, making it the most modern airport in Asia.
The airport is located in Nong Ngu Hao Area (in German cobra swamp) in the town of Bang Phli in the province of Samut Prakan, 30 km east of Bangkok. The land was already acquired 1973rd
The open around the clock airport has a modern airport infrastructure. The prior-art airport is ready for the Airbus A380. The traffic complex has 360 check-in counter personnel and 100 automated switches, 102 lifts, 107 moving walkways, 83 escalators, 26 control switch for the Thai customs and 22 baggage (baggage claim). There are 51 fixed gates, 52 taxiways and 120 parking spaces for aircraft, eight Airbus A380 for the pattern.
The total area of Airport covers 4,200 acres. The central building is 444 m long and 111 m wide passenger terminal, which is spanned by a steel truss roof. All public buildings and parts are air conditioned. The tower is the world with 132 meters is the highest of its kind. It is equipped with the most modern navigation systems, including an instrument landing system, ILS CAT III equipped.
The total area of Airport covers 4,200 acres. The central building is 444 m long and 111 m wide passenger terminal, which is spanned by a steel truss roof. All public buildings and parts are air conditioned. The tower is the world with 132 meters is the highest of its kind. It is equipped with the most modern navigation systems, including an instrument landing system, ILS CAT III equipped.
The terminal has an area of 563 000 m² for the Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok Airport (570,000 m²) is the second largest single terminal building in the world.
The total of 51 gates are cross-shaped and designed in the early stages of an annual 45 million passengers and three million tons of cargo. But there are already developing plans that provide for the establishment of two other start and runways. A first phase to be completed by about 2015. The handling capacity is expected to be already increased to 100 million passengers and 6.4 million tons of cargo. Five of the gates are already ready for the Airbus A380.
The two take-off and landing runways are 4,000 and 3,700 meters long by 60 meters wide. With two additional taxiways capacity is capable of up to 76 flight movements per hour.
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