Upgrades planned for Phuket airport 
Upgrades planned for Phuket airport
Phuket International Airport is getting a five-billion baht face lift to make room for millions more passengers each year.
Airports
of Thailand Plc (AoT) is planning to invest the money in an upgraded
domestic terminal, new international terminal, and more taxiways.
These
changes would allow Phuket´s airport to fly in 11.5 million passengers
each year, up from the current 6.5 million. Airports of Thailand hopes
this could happen as early as 2010.
The renovations are intended
to help ease congestion at the country´s second busiest airport.
Tourists often complain during the high season from late October to
April.
The number of passengers coming to Phuket rose to 5.47
million last year, 22.6% higher than in the previous year. Aircraft
movements rose 32.3% to 38,386.
A budget has been has been set
out for the construction, and design work is under way. However, there
are no plans to extend the airports single 3,000 metre runway.
Source: http://www.property-report.com/aprarchives.php?id=1532&date=100608
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