Influential airport operator, Airports of Thailand (AoT), is about to inaugurate a brand new satellite passenger terminal on the famed Suvarnabhumi Airport come this September. This addition is anticipated to bolster the airport’s passenger dealing with capacity significantly, managing an impressive 15 million further passengers yearly, which effectively raises the total capability to a staggering 60 million each year, revealed AoT’s president.
The soon-to-be-launched, large terminal – reported to cowl an space of over 216,000 sq. metres boasts 28 contact gates and a playful zone completely for children. The solely remaining accountability is to undergo the set up of seating equipped with USB power shops – a noteworthy fashionable convenience for today’s tech-savvy traveller.
Astonishingly, the airport has witnessed an exceptionally high surge in passenger footfall – the figures skyrocketing by 230.8%. This enhance in numbers, noticed from October through May, is compared to the count from the equivalent monthly span the previous 12 months. Contextualising the numbers reveals over 31.6 million passengers, with international visitors making for over 74% of this determine. Thought-provoking depend hovers around somewhere between 140,000 and a hundred and fifty,000 passengers, as acknowledged by the airport.
The president divulged the organisation’s plans as properly, indicating makes an attempt to combat the burgeoning overcrowding problem on the airport’s passport management part. The plan contains the set up of Auto Channel machines for incoming passengers from Singapore and Hong Kong as of next yr, reported Bangkok Post.
Interestingly, future provision has plans to extend this revolutionary service in the direction of outgoing travellers holding e-passports from as many as ninety nations, as per the president’s words. Once these developments come into full swing, Suvarnabhumi Airport should observe a substantial enhancement of its servicing capacity, going from presently aiding 6,200 outbound passengers hourly to a exceptional eight,800. Similarly, inbound processing is to rise from 11,000 to an impressive thirteen,300 passengers per hour..