Bangkok’s Don Muang airport re-opens today to handle domestic flights in Thailand for Nok Air, One-Two-Go and some Thai Airways flights. Be sure to check which Bangkok Airport you’re departing from for Thailand domestic flights
Don Mueang (or Muang) airport reopens in Bangkok today, handling some domestic flights in Thailand. All Nok Air flights and One-Two-Go flights now depart and arrive at Don Muang airport. Some Thai Airways domestic flights arrive and depart from Don Muang, but some also continue to arrive and depart from Suvarnabhumi airport.
These are the only airlines currently scheduled to use Don Muang airport. All other domestic flights, including those of Air Asia, as well as all international flights, continue to arrive and depart from the new Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport.
If you have connecting flights between domestic and international flights in Thailand, make sure you carefully check which airport the flights depart from. You don’t want to have to transfer between the two airports – it will take several hours and you will need to check out and then check back in again with your luggage. You want to ensure all your flights depart and arrive from Suvarnabhumi.
The Airport code for Don Muang is DMK.
The Airport code for Suvarnabhumi continues to be BKK.
You can also look up real time information about flight arrivals and departures at Suvanabhumi
This is a bit different to the situation I reported a few weeks ago, and the government changed its mind several times about what the new policy would be.
It’s frankly a bit of a botch job, with the split of Thai Airways domestic flights between both Don Muang and Suvarnabhumi bound to cause confusion and big problems for a few tourists who get confused between which airport they’re meant to be at. The government has said it will review the situation in six months time, towards the end of 2007, but for now, the dual airport system in in place.
There is also some confusion about the Roman alphabet spelling of the domestic airport’s name. Up until it was closed six month ago, Don Muang was always spelt through its 80 year history as, er, Don Muang. Now, however, experts have insisted it should actually be spelt Don Mueang, with an extra “e”. Expect to see both spellings in all subsequent adverts and literature and a general air of uncertainity to forever hang over the subject.
You can book flights to and from both Don Muang (DMK) and Suvarnabhumi on Compare Flight Prices, which does a pretty good job of comparing different airlines for the best prices.
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Good old Don Muang!
Which makes that “hours” journey transfer quite a pain, but i should be used to the idea of the inconvenience, because Narita and Haneda airports are also 50-60 kilometers apart form each other, and depending on the traffic can take 1-1.5hrs… for the transportation.
Heh – I nearly had a heart attack when I found out how much it cost to get a taxi from Narita into Tokyo! I was there 6 months ago with my parents… luckily my girlfriend used to live in Tokyo so she knew getting the train was a better idea. Am VERY glad we never wound up going to the wrong airport…
Speaking of which, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday some poor group of French tourists have already been caught out by the dual airport system in BKK…