PHUKET: Phuket International Airport's single runway is to be closed between the hours of 1.30am and 7.30am from July 18 to August 1 for a geological survey.
Some charter flights are expected to have to alter their prearranged arrival or departure times to take account of the closure of the runway. Usually, only emergency flights and charter flights arrive or depart during those hours.
Charter flights from Korea and China are the ones that have arrived in the past between 1am and 7.30am.
At one stage during the recent Phuket stranding of Strategic Airlines passengers, a replacement flight to Brisbane was listed to take off at 2am from Phuket after several reschedulings that had passengers sitting at the airport until after midnight for a flight that was never coming.
The Phuket airport geological survey will determine how the existing runway is holding up and whether repairs or renovation is required.
It's part of the 5.8 billion baht move to upgrade Phuket's capacity from more than seven million arrivals and departures to 15 million by 2014, with a new international terminal likely to improve speed through the airport.
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Charter flights from Korea and China are the ones that have arrived in the past between 1am and 7.30am.
At one stage during the recent Phuket stranding of Strategic Airlines passengers, a replacement flight to Brisbane was listed to take off at 2am from Phuket after several reschedulings that had passengers sitting at the airport until after midnight for a flight that was never coming.
The Phuket airport geological survey will determine how the existing runway is holding up and whether repairs or renovation is required.
It's part of the 5.8 billion baht move to upgrade Phuket's capacity from more than seven million arrivals and departures to 15 million by 2014, with a new international terminal likely to improve speed through the airport.
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Pumpkins taste good. :)
Posted by Joe on June 24, 2011 13:25