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-Some Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Airport basics.

Airport Code is BKK, located at latitude (13.6941 degrees) 13° 41' 38" and longitude (100.7517 degrees) 100° 45' 6" almost at sea level in the 'cobra swamps' around 30km east of Bangkok. Bangkok airport has 2 parallel runways, 60 m wide and 4,000 m / 3700 m. long) plus 2 parallel taxiways for simultaneous departures and arrivals. There are 120 parking bays some of them are suitable for the Airbus A380 aircraft, main user until now is Emirates. Around 80 flight operations per hour can be handled for both international and domestic flights. The turnover at the beginning is around 50 million passengers and 3 million tons of cargo per year. Between the Bangkok airport hotel and the main terminal building are two car park buildings with a combined capacity of 5,000 cars, there is also an open area car park. Suvarnabhumi Airport is open 24 hours.

Cheap flights to Bangkok and other not so cheap come in as scheduled flights and charter flights plus private aircrafts and helicopters come in. Bangkok Airport is accessible via a good 6 lane highway but the best is with the airport link Bangkok, a 20 minutes elevated rail link, but this is not the Skytrain, the Skytrain doesn't operate to the airport.

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If you are on a package tour your tour operator will handle the transfer, you could arrange with the hotel for pick-up or take a airport limousine or the Bangkok airport taxi for around Baht 300,- to the city. But this two possibilities are still available but in terms of performance a thing of the past since the

Bangkok airport link started operation in 2010, more on this further below. Now another problem appeared, there are two lines, the express line and the city line, the express line goes straight without a stop and the city line stops several times which is more convenient, travel time is almost the same. But the train intervals at city line are much to long which leads continuously to absolute overcrowded trains. This Thai railway company still sticks in the 19.Century in terms of operation organization when they already do something new and have everything imported they also should spend some money to import a experienced operation manager with it, the guys from Thai railway simply don't know.

The new Bangkok Airport is not only a impressive modern construction its also a interesting travel destination by itself.

Suvarnabhumi is the second of Bangkok airports and its used for domestic and international travel, the old bkk airport Don Muang is still in operation but only for military aircrafts and some domestic flights by Nok Air.

For Bangkok airport to hotel there is the airport link Bangkok to the city which departs from the basement and there are two lines, the express line none stop to Makkasan station in the city for Baht 150,- and the city line to Phayathai BTS Bangkok Station for Baht 40,-, the difference is, the city line stops several times but since the travel time with the train Bangkok Airport to Suvarnabhumi is only 20 minutes anyway its more or less the same. But in any case much better as with the taxi Bangkok Airport, the BTS Skytrain is not extended to the airport, there is an open walkway connection the Skytrain station Phayathai to the airport link Bangkok. After your Bangkok airport arrivals it easy to see that the place is more or less a city by itself with hotel, shops, restaurants, massage parlors, a small clinic (entrance to the clinic is lowest street level just beside the airport entrance) a bus Bangkok Airport Terminal and more.

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Suvarnabhumi bkk airport

Suvarnabhumi has a very modern architecture and is technology oriented, but as in many other destinations too the old bureaucracy from decades ago is still in control, this is very visible at Bangkok airport arrivals and departure where the cues in front of the immigration can mean endless waiting, the main problem for this is a wrong organization and not enough immigration people at the counters, mostly less than half of the counters are open means in the times of cheap flights to Bangkok with thousands of passengers every day the congestion in front of immigration is gigantic if more than aircrafts empties the passengers. The bkk airport has plenty of facilities and artwork decorations are around which capture and show the true colors of Thai traditions and values. There are lots of beautiful sceneries created such as life-size scenes of Thai mythology and the walkways to the gates are decorated with huge Thai art paintings. This ambitious airport project was set up in the 'cobra swamps' east of Bangkok city and ended in a state of the art modern style airport to cater to the steady increasing flow of travelers, tourists and air cargo in and out the rest of the

world. This huge modern style Bangkok airport has a rather centralized architecture which leads to long walks to and from the gates, from the central hall to the end of 'fingers' with the gates its about 500 meter to the left and 500 meter to the right, this construction is not a very good idea, it would have been better to make it round or make 2 or 3 terminals with a train for the airport transfers in between as it is in Singapore Changi and Kuala Lumpur Airport, that would have shorten the walking distances, ok, one can say the people should get the possibilities for some exercises.