Both English newspapers are reporting that February 23th will be the last day the government has to compensate property owners around the new airport.
According to the rags, the unhappy residents will be launching rockets and balloons into the flight patterns of landing and departing aircraft.
The 23th would not be a good day to fly in Thailand, at least into or out of the new airport.
I hope this situation is resolved soon.
T minus 6 days..... (airport problems again)
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ISSAN_NISSAN
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It started with sightings of Poo Ming, the blue ghost and guardian of the cemetery that sits beneath the new airport.
Then the new runways started to fall apart.
Last year it was the bird issue and the possibility that airliners on take off or short finals would strike flocks of birds at the new airport (a very real risk but a manageable one).
Now it's the locals threatening to fire rockets and balloons in the path of jets. The BKK Post reports that they've already released 100 balloons last month, disrupting flights for 2 hours.
And to cap it all, it's built on a flaming swamp.
That new airport doesn't have a lot of luck, how long before the international airlines relocate to Don Muang?
Then the new runways started to fall apart.
Last year it was the bird issue and the possibility that airliners on take off or short finals would strike flocks of birds at the new airport (a very real risk but a manageable one).
Now it's the locals threatening to fire rockets and balloons in the path of jets. The BKK Post reports that they've already released 100 balloons last month, disrupting flights for 2 hours.
And to cap it all, it's built on a flaming swamp.
That new airport doesn't have a lot of luck, how long before the international airlines relocate to Don Muang?
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rickfarang
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It seems that once a again the airport's neighbors feel desperate. Whether they have was we could consider a valid complaint or not, given that the airport was under construction way before most of those houses came into being, the residents were promised compensation, and it still hasn't appeared. Of course, it was the last government that made the promises, so maybe the residents feel they have to go through the same histrionics again.
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That new airport doesn't have a lot of luck, how long before the international airlines relocate to Don Muang?
Not a chance .... the friends and family of a certain individual don't own the land at Don Muang ........ unless they purchased it all at rock bottom prices when the new airport was being built , and prices around Don Muang fell through the floor. Of course you would have had to know that the new airport was a "white elephant" and that everything would eventually have to return to Don Muang to have done that !!!! No..... No .......No not even HE could have pulled that one ..... could he?
Not a chance .... the friends and family of a certain individual don't own the land at Don Muang ........ unless they purchased it all at rock bottom prices when the new airport was being built , and prices around Don Muang fell through the floor. Of course you would have had to know that the new airport was a "white elephant" and that everything would eventually have to return to Don Muang to have done that !!!! No..... No .......No not even HE could have pulled that one ..... could he?