PUBLISHED: 29 Aug 2024 at 08: 53
By 2031, Airports of Thailand ( AoT ) intends to upgrade the facilities at Suvarnabhumi International Airport to accommodate 80 million passengers annually.
AoT leader Kerati Kijmanawat stated on Wednesday that the organization is reviewing its master plan for expanding the airport’s power over a 10-year period in order to accomplish the president’s goal of having the aircraft rank among the top 20 in the world within five years.
South Terminal, a new customer connector, may be constructed on the southern part of the airport in accordance with the master plan, for an estimated 120 billion baht.
The carrier’s third runway may be built for 20 billion ringgit.
According to him, with these two new components, the aircraft will be able to manage about 80 million people annually. North Terminal will probably take 14 months to complete, while Runway 4 will take about 10 weeks.
He stated that the king strategy review would be finished by February, adding that AoT will forward the program to the Transport Ministry so that it can be submitted for cabinet authorization, which is anticipated to take at least another three weeks.
By the time the initiatives are finished, he predicted, it will likely be by first 2027.
He claimed that Runway 4 should get completed in about four decades, compared to South Terminal’s estimated four and a-half years of construction.
The third runway will likely be opened a year earlier, while the fresh terminal will probably start by the late 2031.
Mr Kerati said Suvarnabhumi’s development program is required because its existing major terminal is crowded.
Additionally, he said, the areas for dropping out and picking up passengers are now extremely congested because the place is only 400 meters long.
When the southwestern switch is built, more dropping out and picking up room, about 2 miles long, may become added.
He claimed that the momentary park area may be designed in a U-shape to facilitate customer pick-ups and drop-offs.
For those who arrive at the terminal quick and want to spend some time it before their airlines, he added that retailers will also be added to the U-shaped area.