News Forum - AOT soar above last year’s levels

[Thaiger]

As Thailand’s economy rebounds to close to pre-pandemic levels, the recovery can be traced directly to more flights. Airports of Thailand are set to soar above last year’s levels of both domestic and international arrivals, and the millions of tourists these flights bring. The first two months of this year have seen 150,000 flights, double …

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[Pinetree]

A positive comment now, from an ex airline employee who flew through BKK on a regular basis.  The AOT  are excellent in terms on BKK operations, better than many airports in other parts of the World.  The Thai Air Traffic Controllers are also first rate, well trained, excellent English and very professional. BKK was almost always trouble free from an operational point of view, nor always the case at European Airports and some in the US.   

[Soidog]

I don’t get this at all. Tourism is likely to be at least 25% down on pre-pandemic levels (30 million compared to 40), so how can the economy be returning to “close to pre-pandemic levels”, let alone AOT?  Add to this that exports are also projected to be down 1.5% then it just sounds like smoke and mirrors as usual. 

[Marc26]

15 hours ago, Pinetree said:

A positive comment now, from an ex airline employee who flew through BKK on a regular basis.  The AOT  are excellent in terms on BKK operations, better than many airports in other parts of the World.  The Thai Air Traffic Controllers are also first rate, well trained, excellent English and very professional. BKK was almost always trouble free from an operational point of view, nor always the case at European Airports and some in the US.   

Yup I've never had an issue

 

And we've seen many of the westeen airports crumble this year with travel coming back 

 

Asians just do things right