On a normal day, Suvarnabhumi handles 900 aircraft so the 100 delayed flights is more than 10 per cent. Part of the east runway was shut off for essential maintenance work and improvements on 3 March 2017. The work is scheduled to take two months and the provisional reopening date has been pencilled in for 2 May.
12GO ASIA is a leading travel solutions provider serving hundreds of destinations in Southeast Asia. The travel team notes that both Easter and Thailand’s famous Songkran Festival will be celebrated in mid-April and this is bound to cause more delays at Suvarnabhumi.
Aeronautical Radio of Thailand reports that the country’s main international airports will receive 10 per cent more flights a day for the week between 11 and 18 April. Although a lot of the passengers will be travelling onwards to Chiang Mai, Phuket or Koh Samui, this often requires a change of aircraft in Bangkok. People with connecting flights should allow enough time to change planes.
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport shutdown delays flight departures
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The partial closure of one runway at Bangkok’s main international airport is taking its toll on flight schedules. Statistics released by Air Traffic Services Thailand show that for the first 10 days of the shutdown at Suvarnabhumi Airport, an average 100 flights a day were 10 minutes late in taking off.