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Thai Press: Transport Ministry To Build 2nd Samui Airport
Wednesday March 3, 2004
Thai Press: Transport Ministry To Build 2nd Samui
Airport
Yahoo News
BANGKOK (Dow Jones)--Thailand's Ministry of
Transportation will go ahead with plans to build a
second airport on Koh Samui, a southern resort island,
because landing fees at the existing airport are too
expensive, the Nation newspaper reports.
Ministry advisor Likhit Dheravekhin said details would
be finalized in two weeks, but a preliminary estimate
put construction costs at 500 million to 600 million
baht ($1=THB39.278), and THB1 billion has been
budgeted for the entire project, says the newspaper.
Land acquisition could be a problem, and property may
have to be expropriated or reclaimed from the sea if
land prices are too high, Dheravekhin's quoted as
saying.
The ministry earlier asked Bangkok Airways Ltd. to cut
the landing fees at the existing airport from
THB90,000.
Pradit Thirhakul, a senior executive with Bangkok
Airways, said the landing fees were approved by all
relevant government agencies.
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