Changes to Samui airport plan - Bangkok Post,
April 27, 2005
[We were interested in the series of odd, unrelated paragraphs in
this article.]
The Aviation Department is revising plans for Koh Samui's second
airport after Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit visited
the site and saw that a mountain would block a runway.
If approved, the second Samui airport would be built on 2,000 rai
of land in the Phru Na Muang area. It would cost about 500 million
baht excluding land expropriation costs.
Kasem Chankaew, head of a team conducting the feasibility study,
said the Aviation Department had assigned Kasetsart University's
environmental college to study the possibilities of the project
by focusing on necessities, the location and size of the airport,
the number of flights, environment and noise pollution.
The island's current airport, belonging to Bangkok Airways, a private
firm, is deemed too small.
Anusorn Wongwisuthivej, a tourism business operator and former Thai
Airways International pilot, said the island needed one more airport
as Bangkok Airways' facility could accommodate fewer than 350,000
tourists per year. This year the island expects 920,000 visitors.
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