Suvarnabhumi Airport – Thailand

Suvarnabhumi Airport Project is the most important airport of Thailand. This aviation hub in Southeast Asian region is located in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province, about 30 kms or 18.6 miles east of Bangkok. The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and refers to the golden kingdom hypothesized to have been located somewhere in Southeast Asia. Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, this airport has the world’s tallest control tower (132.2 m), and the world’s third largest single building and airport terminal (563,000 m²), a little smaller than Hong Kong International Airport (570,000 m²) and the current record holder, Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal Three (986,000 m²). Suvarnabhumi is one of the busiest airports in Asia and Bangkok’s primary airport for all international airline flights. The airport inherited the airport code BKK from Don Mueang after the older airport ceased commercial flights.

The main features of Suvarnabhumi airport include:

Two parallel runways (60 m. wide,4,000 m. and 3,700 m. long).

Two parallel taxiways to accommodate simultaneous departures and arrivals.

120 parking bays, 51 with contact gates and 69 with remote gates. 5 of them are capable of accommodating the Airbus A380 aircraft.

Capable of handling 76 flight operations per hour, both international and domestic flights will share the airport terminal.

5-storey car park building with total capacity of 5,000 cars.

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