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Special: Abhisit govt faces tough choice on airport policy.

The Nation (Thailand)

| March 30, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Nation Multimedia Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: The Nation.

This Wednesday, the Cabinet will be hard-pressed to decide if Bangkok should have one or two airports.

The decision will be tough, but it will set the policy-making benchmark for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's three-month-old administration.

In theory, Bangkok will be best served

by the one-airport policy, meaning Suvarnabhumi should be used as the only aviation gateway with key domestic connections. Don Mueang should be kept as a secondary airport or centre for aviation-related facilities.

However, the airport hub policy has not played out like it should have ever since the US$3.5 billion-plus (Bt124 …

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