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New Don Muang Bus Shuttle Service is a Success, Says BMTA
8th May 2017
After the success of routes A1 and A2, which connect Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport with Chatuchak and Victory Monument respectively, the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) decided to launch additional two bus shuttle services from the airport to the city centre, and they too started off nicely.
According to Chitchai Phuaree, BMTA’s Bus Management Office director, the agency earned around 225,000 baht from its new services A3 and A4, just for the first five days (1st May to 5th May).
A3 takes tourists from Don Muang to the Lumpini Park and A4 to Sanam Luang.
During the first five days, the busses carried a total of 4,506 passengers. This includes 2,350 passengers on the A3 route and 2,156 on the A4. The routes earned a respectable 117,220 and 107,800 baht, or 23,444 and 21,560 baht per day.
In comparison, the BMTA earned 6.6 million baht in revenue from the A1 and A2 routes, just in April. Both routes served a total of 438,691 passengers. Individually A1 shuttled 291,412 passengers and earned 4.3 million baht and A2 served 147,279 passengers and earned 2.2 million.
This prompted the agency to think about adding some more bus shuttle routes, as these have proven popular with the tourists, especially foreign ones. As a result, the BMTA will ponder new routes to the major tourist attractions in Bangkok.
The BMTA also considered opening bus routes from the Suvarnabhumi Airport, particularly to Sanam Luang and Khao San Road, but also to the Hua Lamphong train station and the Ekkamai bus terminal. However, the agency will have to thoroughly analyze the possible earnings in order to mitigate any losses.
Also, according to Mr. Chitchai, passengers from Suvarnabhumi can already use the more convenient Airport Rail Link and the taxi service, which many of them do, as they carry a lot of luggage. One possible way to deal with this (luggage space) is to organize the interior of the buses so that it offers more storage space and allow passengers to take larger suitcases with them. This would make the busses similar in design to those operated by the Airports of Thailand (AoT).
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