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Suvarnabhumi Runway Repairs to Cause Flight Delays
2nd Mar 2017
Suvarnabhumi International Airport officials held a meeting with airlines operating out of the airport and have asked them to reserve more fuel in order to cover possible delays while waiting to land. This decision was made due to a high probability that the runway and taxiway will be closed in the next two month, during maintenance work which will begin tomorrow (Friday 3rd March).
According to Suvarnabhumi Airport General Manager Sirote Duangratana, the work will be done on the eastern part of the runway’s surface and taxiway B1.
Mr. Sirote said:
The timeframe for the repairs has been set for 60 days, for completion on 2nd May, 2017.
The airport GM also said that Suvarnabhumi would close a 935 stretch at the north end of the eastern runway and replace the current concrete asphalt with modified asphalt, while the taxiway B1 will be surfaced with Portland cement.
He also said:
The airport will still be open for planes taking off and landing as usual. There is still 2,750 meters of runway, which is enough for all types of aircraft, including long-range A380 Airbuses.
Sirote also said that, in order to ensure that the work is completed on schedule, a monitoring center will be set up at the airport. Also, another center, this one for passenger coordination and facilitation, will be set up if any flights get delayed.
According to the chairman of the Airline Operators Committee (AOC), Mr. Louis Moser, the Suvarnabhumi Airport runway repairs will affect about 102 airlines. They will, Moser said, now need to have fuel for extra hour or hour-and-a-half that they will probably have to wait on the air traffic control to give them permission to land.
Executive vice president of Aeronautical Radio of Thailand Tinnagorn Choowong said the works will likely cause Suvarnabhumi to be overloaded at times and that its capacity will drop to 60 flights per hour from 68.
Mr. Tinnagorn said:
Looking into the flight timetable, the airport can still serve a number of flights concurrently. But there might be flight delays from occasional traffic jams.
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