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(or also '''Don Muang International Airport''') ( Thai ท่าอากาศยานกรุงเทพ, also '''Don Mueang''', Thai ท่าอากาศยานดอนเมือง) is an airport in Bangkok, Thailand (). The airport was officially opened on March 27th 1914 , although the field had been in use earlier. The main field before the opening of Bangkok International Airport was the Sa Pathum Airfield .
Bangkok International Airport is an important Hub of Asia and the hub of Thai Airways International . The airport has the IATA Airport Code and ICAO Airport Code '''VTBD'''.
Bangkok International Airport serves the most air traffic in Thailand. As Of 2004 more than 80 airlines serviced the airport and over 30,000,000 passengers, 160,000 flights and 700,000 tons of cargo were handled at this airport per year. In 2004 it was the 14th Busiest Airport in the world by passenger volume.
Bangkok International Airport is a joint-use facility with the Royal Thai Air Force 's Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base , being the home of the RTAF the 1st Air Division, consisting primarily of non-combat aircraft.
Vibhavadi Rangsit Road is the main route linking the airport with downtown Bangkok. The Uttaraphimuk Elevated Tollway, running above Vibhavadi Rangsit, offers a more rapid option for getting into the city and connects to Bangkok's inner city expressway network. Besides travelling by road, there is train service connecting to Hua Lamphong station in the center of town. The railway station is across the highway and linked with the airport by walkway bridge.
Bangkok International Airport will be replaced by the new Suvarnabhumi Airport , which has been under construction since 2002 and is currently expected to open in 2006 . The present airport's fate has not been officially decided yet. Once the new airport has completed, all international traffic and Thai 's domestic operations is expected to go to the new airport and BIA will serve Low-cost Carrier as well as charter flights.
The airport was the second in Thailand (after Sa Pathum airfield, part of Sa Pathum Horse Racing Course ). The first flights to the airfield were on March 8 1914 and consisted of the first aircraft of the Royal Thai Air Force . In 1911 Thailand sent three officers to France to train as pilots and they brought back to Thailand four Breguet s and four Nieuport s.
During the Vietnam War , Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base was used as a major command and logistics hub of the United States Air Force .
- December 25 , 1976 - EgyptAir Flight 864, a Boeing 707 -300 bound for Bangkok from Cairo , crashed into an industrial area near the airport during a landing attempt. All 53 aboard were killed.
- April 27 , 1980 - a Thai Airways BAe 748 enroute from Khon Kaen to Bangkok lost altitude during a thunderstorm and crashed about 8 miles from Bangkok International Airport. All four crew members and 40 of the 49 passengers were killed. {Link without Title}
- November 29 , 1987 - Korean Air Flight 858 , flying from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates to Don Muang to Gimpo Airport near Seoul , South Korea , exploded over the Andaman Sea after a bomb planted by North Korea n agents exploded. Everyone on board died.
- May 26 , 1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 , which was headed to Wien-Schwechat International Airport in Vienna , suffered an in-flight deployment of the thrust reverser on the No. 1 engine after taking off from Don Muang. Among the 213 passengers and 10 crew, there were no survivors.
- If Project Bojinka had not been discovered after a fire in Manila , one or more aircraft owned by a U.S. carrier/s flying to Bangkok would have blown up over the Pacific Ocean on January 21 , 1995 as part of the project's first phase.
- August 22 , 1999 - Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 , which was landing in Tropical Storm Sam at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong on a route from Don Muang to Hong Kong, rolled upside down on the runway. The plane came to rest upside down. 3 of the passengers died.
- March 3 , 2001 - a Thai Airways International Boeing 737-400 (HS-TDC), bound for Chiang Mai from Bangkok, was destroyed by an explosion and fire that occurred about 35 minutes before the Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and about 150 other passengers were to board. Five members of the cabin crew were aboard, and one was killed. Witnesses said they heard an explosion before flames erupted aboard the aircraft. NTSB investigators reported that the center fuel tank exploded followed by the right tank 18 minutes later. The cause for the explosion was unclear. No traces of explosive were found. The center fuel tank is located near air conditioning packs which generate heat, and were running nonstop prior to the explosion. {Link without Title}
- April 19 , 2005 - a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-200 stopped approximately 194 meters beyond a painted stop line at Bangkok International Airport, and its left wing-tip was clipped by a Thai Airways International Airbus A330-300 taxiing for take-off. Both aircraft were severely damaged. There were no injuries.
Bangkok International Airport has 3 Terminals.
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev)
- Air Astana (Almaty)
- Air India (Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai-Pudong)
- Air Koryo (Pyongyang)
- Air Madagascar (Antananarivo)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon, Busan)
- Biman Bangladesh (Dhaka, Singapore)
- China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou)
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
- Druk Air (Thimphu)
- Egypt Air (Cairo, Tokyo-Narita)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Hong Kong)
- Indian Airlines (Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai, Singpore)
- Japan Airlines ( JALways ) (Nagoya, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)
- Kenya Airways (Nairobi, Hong Kong, Guangzhou)
- Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon, Busan, Daegu, Jeju)
- Lao Aviation (Vientiane)
- Mahan Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
- Myanmar Airways International (Yangon)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Royal Brunei Airlines (Bandar Seri Bagawan)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Singapore)
- Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo, Hong Kong, Beijing)
- Thai Airways International (Athens, Auckland, Bandar Seri Begawan, Bangalore, Beijing, Brisbane, Busan, Chengdu, Chennai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chittagong, Colombo, Copenhagen, Delhi, Denpasar, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Guangzhou, Hat Yai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kathmandu, Karachi, Khon Kaen, Kolkata, Krabi, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Kuwait, Lahore, London/Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luang Prabang, Madrid, Mae Hong Son, Manila, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Demodedovo, Munich, Mumbai, Nagoya, Nakhon Si Thammarat, New York-JFK, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phitsanulok, Phnom Penh, Penang, Perth, Rome-Fiumicino, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm, Surat Thani, Sydney, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek, Tokyo-Narita, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani, Vientianne, Xiamen, Yangon, Zurich)
- Thai Sky Airlines (Hong Kong, Incheon, Kuala Lumpur)
- Turkmenistan Airlines (Ashkabad)
- Vietnam Airlines (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)
- Xiamen Airlines (Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Xiamen)
- Air China (Beijing)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)
- Air Macau (Macau)
- All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Narita)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Bangkok Airways (Guilin, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Jinghong, Luang Prabang, Phnom Penh, Shenzhen, Siem Reap, Singapore, Xian, Yangon)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow, Sydney)
- Cathay Pacific (Colombo, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Karachi, Singapore)
- China Airlines (Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Rome-Fiumicino, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek)
- China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)
- Emirates (Dubai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Sydney)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- EVA Air (Amsterdam, London-Heathrow, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek, Vienna)
- Finnair (Helsinki, Hong Kong, Singapore)
- Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta, Singapore)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain, Dubai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Muscat)
- Jetstar Asia (Singapore)
- KLM (Amsterdam, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait, Manila)
- LTU International (Dusseldorf, Munich)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City - Saigon, Jakarta)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Northwest Airlines (San Francisco, Tokyo-Narita)
- Orient Thai Airlines (Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon)
- PB Air (Da Nang, Beijing, Haikou, Luang Prabang, Nyaung-u)
- Philippine Airlines (Manila)
- Phuket Air (Yangon)
- President Airlines (Phnom Penh)
- Qantas (Sydney, London-Heathrow)
- Royal Phnom Penh Airways (Phnom Penh)
- Siem Reap Airways (Siem Reap)
- Singapore Airlines (Osaka-Kansai, Singapore, Tokyo-Narita)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Singapore, Zürich)
- Thai Air Asia (Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, Macau, Xiamen, Ha Noi)
- Turkish Airlines (Hong Kong, Istanbul, Singapore)
- United Airlines (San Francisco, Tokyo-Narita)
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
- Air Andaman
- Bangkok Airways (Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Krabi, Phuket, Sukhothai, Trat, Utapao)
- Nok Air (Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Udon Thani, Phuket, Nakhon Sri Thammarat)
- One-Two-GO (Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phuket, Hat Yai, Krabi, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Ubon Ratchatani)
- Orient Thai Airlines (Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Bangkok, Hat Yai, Phuket, Udon Thani)
- PB Air (Krabi, Lampang, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Nan, Phetchabun, Roi Et, Sakon Nakhon, Trang)
- Phuket Air (Ranong)
- Thai Air Asia (Khon Kaen, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Phuket, Udon Thani, Ubon Ratchathani)
- Thai Airways International (Chiang Mai, Phuket, HatYai, Krabi, Trang, UbonRatchatani, Udon Thani, ChiangRai, Phitsanulok, Surat Thani, Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Khon Kaen)
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