Don Muang Airport
Don Muang International Airport (also Don Mueang) is an airport in Bangkok, Thailand. It is an important hub of asia base of Thai Airways International, and has the IATA airport code BKK.
Don Muang International Airport serves the most air traffic in Thailand. Nowadays more than 80 airlines are on service and over 30,000,000 passengers, 160,000 flights and 700,000 tons of cargo are handled at this airport.
Vibhavadi Rangsit Road is the main route linking airport with downtown Bangkok. Other transport webs bringing us to downtown are toll-way and expressways which facilitate passengers' trip with more convenience and fastness.
Besides travelling by road, train is other choice for travelling to town, spending 30 minutes only. The railway station is opposite and linked with the airport by walkway bridge.
Construction on Suvarnabhumi Airport started in 2002. When completed in 2005, Suvarnabhumi will take over all of Don Muang Airport's International Flights.
History of disasters and near-disasters
On November 29, 1988, Korean Air Flight 858, which was flying from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Don Muang to Kimpo International Airport near Seoul, South Korea, exploded over the Andaman Sea after a bomb planted by North Korean agents exploded. Everyone on board died.
If Project Bojinka had not been discovered after a fire in Manila, Philippines, one or more aircraft owned by a U.S. carrier/s flying to this airport would have blown up over the Pacific Ocean on January 21, 1995 as part of the project's first phase.
On August 22, 1999, Mandarin Airlines Flight 642, which was landing in Tropical Storm Sam at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong on a route from Don Muang to Hong Kong, rolled upside down on the runway. The plane came to rest upside down. 3 of the passengers died.
Don Muang International Airport has 3 Terminals.
International Terminal 1
- Check-in Rows 1-4
- Check-in Row 5
- Check-in Row 6
- Check-in Row 7
- Check-in Row 8
International Terminal 2
- Check-in Row 9
- Check-in Row 10
- Check-in Row 11
- Check-in Row 12
- Check-in Row 14
- Check-in Row 15
Domestic Terminal
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