Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand

The name of Suvarnabhumi airport means 'Golden Land', this name was given to it by His Majesty the King. Suvarnabhumi Airport is located in Bang Pli District of Suvarnabhumi City, Samut Prakan Province, and covers an area of ​​approximately 3,200 hectares.

The airport was designed by architect Helmut Jahn and is equipped with 22 baggage checkpoints, 107 jetways, 102 escalators and 83 escalators. Suvarnabhumi Airport has the tallest control tower in the world (132.2 meters) and is the third largest airport terminal in the world (56.3 ha).

The airport was first designed 45 years ago and the new Bangkok International Airport was established in 1996, but due to political and economic turmoil it took six years before construction could begin. New airports have also been repeatedly delayed due to cost overruns and construction issues. The new airport is located in a swamp of 3,100 sites in the Thai province of Samut Prakarn in Nong Ngu Hao (translated as Cobra Swamp), 30 km east of Bangkok. Construction of Suvarnabhumi Airport began in January 2002 and was completed during the reign of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The airport was scheduled to open in June 2006, but was delayed to September 2006 due to ICAO testing and certification.

According to a November 2008 report by Airports Council International, Suvarnabhumi Airport is the 18th busiest airport in the world, the 4th in Asia and the busiest in Southeast Asia with 36.3 million passengers per year , which will increase to 45 million in a short time. . After a new expansion phase with two additional runways, it will serve more than 100 million passengers per year.

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