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Suvarnabhumi Airport Increases Capacity for Songkran Festival
6th Apr 2016
Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok is preparing for this year’s Songkran festival (8th April-18th April) by opening a new coordination center. This will make it much easier to facilitate passenger travel, especially since it’s expected the average passenger numbers to reach more than 165,000 a day.
The new “Passenger Facilitation Center”, said the director of Airports of Thailand (AoT), will be opened during the Songkran festival to offer better convenience and provide more safety for travelers during this period. The coordination center will be used to collect traffic data, which will further be used by the airport in allocating staff to passport checking, baggage inspection, check-ins and to adjust its service and personnel capacity depending on the conditions.
During the festival, the airport will welcome 10,296 flights, including 8,064 international and 2,232 domestic ones. This is expected to bring more than 1.5 million international passengers and more than 295,000 domestic, which amounts to 5.77 per cent more than last year during this time.
Illegal Ivory Tusks Cargo Seized at Airport by Custom
315 kilograms of elephant tusks were seized by Thai Custom officials at the Suvarnabhumi Airport. The entire haul was worth THB28 million and was sent from Mozambique via Kenya to Bangkok in 87 plastic barrels, concealed with rocks. The precious cargo was transported on a commercial flight by Kenya Airways on 27th March.
Director General at Royal Thai Customs Kulit Sombatsiri commented on the latest action by Thai Customs:
We can see that the traffickers are using different entry points, container sizes and smuggling techniques. So we must continue to be diligent and inspect all suspicious cargo coming in.
This is the fifth such smuggling attempt halted by Thai Customs in 2015-16 fiscal year alone. In April, 2015, the officials managed to intercept two major trafficking operations at Laem Chabang Port. Another haul was seized last July, also at Suvarnabhumi Airport, while the last bust, prior to this one, was stopped in December at Koh Samui International Airport.
The man waiting for the ivory fled Thailand for Kenya once he learned the “operation” is busted and is currently still on the loose.
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