Don Mueang International Airport

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Don Mueang International Airport Bangkok ( Thai: ท่าอากาศยาน ดอนเมือง, Don Muang, IATA code DMK, ICAO code: VTBD ), is an international airport in the district of Don Mueang Thai capital Bangkok.

General

Don Mueang was until 27 September 2006, the largest international airport of Thailand. He is 3 meters above the sea level and about 22 kilometers northeast of the city center of Bangkok. Before the opening of the new Suvarnabhumi Airport was the IATA code BKK, today this DMK.

At Don Mueang airport can technically up to 60 flights per hour in two international and one national terminal with a total of 33 gates are handled, technically, there are spaces for 94 aircraft and 124 check-in counters at Terminal 1 Don Mueang has two start- runways and be able to handle organizational over 10 million passengers per year.

Designation

At the opening of the airfield in 1914 the name was written in the Latin script " Don Muang ", which was changed in 2007. He was henceforth called " Don Mueang ", which corresponds to the general rules for transliteration of the Thai script into Latin characters according to the requirements of the Royal Institute of Thailand.

History

Until the opening of the airport Suvarnabhumi flew more than 80 airlines with 25 million passengers, 160,000 flights and 700,000 tonnes of cargo per year, the Don Mueang International Airport on. According to passengers, the Airport positioned in 2005 to 18th place worldwide.

The airport was primarily the aviation hub of the airline Thai Airways. During the Vietnam War, the military part of the airport was used as a hub for the United States Air Force ( Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base ).

The commercial operation of Don Mueang was posted on 28 September 2006. At the same time the Suvarnabhumi 25 kilometers east of Bangkok airport was put into service, which also includes the IATA code BKK was assigned. The IATA code for Don Mueang was changed to DMK.

On February 6, 2007, the Thai government announced to open the airport again for domestic flights and low cost airlines. Reason were the poor conditions at the new Suvarnabhumi Airport in the form of cracks in the start and runways and the lack of capacity.

The reopening took place after a renovation - in spite of great resistance of almost all airlines - change of flight schedule on 25 March 2007 Switching to most domestic flights was therefore considerably more difficult, since a change of airport was necessary.. So Thai Airways recommended a transfer time of about five hours. International Thai Airways flights with connections to the domestic destinations of Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Krabi and Phuket were, however, continue to be handled through the airport Suvarnahbumi. Overall, these were eleven compounds per day. 30 their daily domestic flights from Thai Airways led by Don Mueang. Thai Airways flights from / to Don Mueang Airport were marked with a four-digit, starting in each case with the number 1 flight number ( TG 1xxx ). Flights over Suvarnabhumi still bear three-digit flight numbers.

Since March 29, 2009 Thai Airways handles no more flights from Don Mueang from. Because of the increasing domestic air traffic, the airport operator Airports of Thailand (AOT ) domestic flights chose from 1 August 2011 of small domestic terminal (total area 22,266 square meters) to the former International Terminal 1 (total area 109 033 square meters) to lay.

Since 1 October 2012, the airline AirAsia denies all flights to and from Bangkok only from this airport.

Traffic

Currently, the following airlines fly on domestic flights from Don Mueang:

Air Asia Objectives: Surat Thani ( URT ), Hat Yai ( HDY ), Trang (TST ), Phuket ( HKT), Krabi ( KBV), Nakhon Phanom ( KOP), Udon Thani ( UTH ), Khon Kaen ( KKC ), Ubon Ratchathani ( UBP ) Nakhon Si Thammarat ( NST), Chiang Mai (CNX ) Chiang Rai (CEI ), also many international airports

Objectives: Buriram, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Narathiwat, Phitsanulok, Phuket, Sakhon Nakhon, Surat Thani, Trang, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani

Phuket

Objectives: Roi Et

Objectives: Nan, Chumphon, Mae Sot, Loei, Phrae, Hua Hin

Incidents

Occupation by protesters

In the wake of the political crisis in Thailand in late 2008 succeeded applied opponents of the government on 27 November 2008, the airport to bring into your bloodless violence after they had already occupied the Suvarnabhumi Airport to protest against Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. All flights were canceled, thousands of travelers sat for days fest.In the early morning hours of December 2, 2008 came at a grenade explosion, a man killed, 13 others were injured.

Shortly after the Thai Constitutional Court had dissolved three government parties for election fraud on 2 December 2008, the PAD held a press conference, in which it stated that would be completed all their protests on December 3 at 10 clock.

On 5 December, the airport began operation again.

Flooding

Reached on 25 October 2011 during the floods in Thailand 2011, the flooding in Don Mueang Airport. The terminal and other buildings were protected with sandbags in front of the ever-increasing flood, nevertheless penetrated the flood in areas of the now unused terminals 1 a. The airport was temporarily evacuated and flight operations until March 5, 2012 set.

Armed forces

At the airport there is also a military base of the Thai Air Force RTAF. The 6th Squadron of the RTAF is here with four squadrons ( 601 to 604 ) and the 904 squadron, a special unit of RTAF stationed.

Golf course

Is the originally applied by the RTAF golf course Kantarat, which has no fixed definition to the paths between the two tracks.

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