Don Mueang Airport services resume Tuesday

BANGKOK, March 4 (TNA) - After a closure for more than four months due to severe damages incurred from heavy flooding, services at Don Mueang Airport which caters commercial domestic flights will resume this Tuesday. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to preside over a ceremony Monday evening declaring that the airport which has been closed since last October 25 is now ready to resume its service. The reopening of the airport comes after the Airports of Thailand Public Co., Ltd. (AoT) announced that the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand Co., Ltd. had inspected safety systems including its runways and found that the airport is now fit to resume its service. The government had allocated 392 million baht while AoT spent another 1.231 billion baht in repairing and refurbishing the airport. Patee Sarasin, chief executive of low-cost Nok Air airline, said services of his airline which was moved from Don Mueang to Suvarnabhumi International Airport after the airport was hit by flood would now move back to Don Mueang. Nok Air will continue to provide 82 flights daily like before and its first flight will commence at 6.00 a.m. Tuesday, he said. Another airline which operated from Don Mueang before the closure, Orient Thai Airlines which is now operating from Suvarnabhumi International Airport has not yet decided when it would return to Don Mueang. (TNA)