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==IATA Code==
If indeed this becomes the defacto "Bangkok International Airport", then I guess that would be the name of the article, with the Suvarnabhumi Airport page becoming a redirect? "Don Muang International Airport" would become the name of the article for the former Bangkok International Airport as well, with eventually, all the airline information from that page being moved to this new page. Like the transfer of operations to the new airport itself, I don't expect things to go smoothly here, either. - [[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 10:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
I suggest that the Bangkok International Airport should redirect to this page instead. This is because "Suvarnabhumi Airport" is the official name given by His Majesty.
== Bangkok International Airport and Suvarnabhumi Airport ==
What's the distance between the Bangkok International Airport and the Suvarnabhumi Airport?can anyone give me the num?
Thanks,
--[[User:Redflowers|Redflowers]] 14:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
:According to [http://www.bangkokpost.net/270706_Horizons/27Jul2006_hori004.php] and [http://www.bangkokairportonline.com/node/3], about 50 km. [[User:208.180.124.100|208.180.124.100]] 04:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
== The new Airport's name is prounounced "Suwannaphoom" ==
I don't know why the Thai people like to do this. But we should realize that this is Thailand
and not India, neither are we speaking the ancient Sanskrit here. But recently, Thai people
have been doing a lot of this, from the King's name to the airport's name. Any reason for this?
It will confuse foreigners when they speak with a Thai person
: I believe you're Thai people. Similar to Phuket, same confused if you write Suwannaphoom, it will pronounced as -fum; ph sounds of [f]. Please see [[Ph (digraph)]] and [[Tinglish]]. --[[User:Manop|Manop - TH]] 22:38, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
== The page move ==
Here's how it should be:
* [[Suvarnabhumi Airport]] should be the name of the article. Like it or not, Suvarnabhumi Airport is official name of the airport.
* [[Don Mueang International Airport]] should be the name of the old airport article.
* [[Bangkok International Airport]] should be a disambiguation page, which gives links to both the old and new airports. Or, the link is a redirect to Suvarnabhumi (not the other way around) and then a disambig link to the Don Mueang article should be placed at the top of the Suvarnabhumi page.
I'm not sure where the talk pages fit in this mess, though I suppose the related talk pages for Don Mueang (old Bangkok International Airport) and Suvarnabhumi (new airport) should stay with their respective pages.
An admin will have to do this move to sort the talk pages out. A request has been put in at [[Wikipedia:Requested moves]]--[[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 04:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
:Are there are official websites for the airport other than this [http://www.airportthai.co.th/airportnew/bia/html/], which is grossly outdated? It seems like we do not even have a clear indication on just what the official name of the airport should be.--[[User:Huaiwei|Huaiwei]] 12:26, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
::All information that used to be seen from Suvarnabhumiairport.com can see at here [http://bidding.airportthai.co.th/airportnew/bidding/nbia/en/index.htm] [[User:Bratboyz|BratBoyz]] 19:14, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
== Thai version ==
I noticed that the Thai version is actually way longer. What about someone translating it?
: The Thai version includes [[Corruption in the Suvarnabhumi Airport project]] and some airport problems when it first used i.e. roof leaking, luggage missings, etc. --[[User:Manop|Manop - TH]] 16:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
== 10,000 or 100,000? ==
In the opening paragraph either a comma is misplaced or there is an extra zero. Anyone source this? [[User:Oldsoul|Oldsoul]] 19:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
== Height of KL's control tower ==
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_International_Airport, its control tower's height is 130 m. Thus Suvarnabhumi's is 2 m higher. (Not 10 m)
== Disambiguate?? ==
Since Bangkok is served by both Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang, should Bangkok be disambiguated eventhough Don Mueang is decommissioned? Thanks! [[User:Bucs2004|Bucs2004]] 04:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:[[Bangkok]] is served by [[Suvarnabhumi Airport]], which has replaced [[Don Mueang International Airport]]. Don Mueang used to be known as [[Bangkok International Airport]], and that page is now a disambiguation page, which is perhaps the fairest way to get readers to the page they are really looking for - information about Bangkok's new airport, or the old facility. Hope that helps. -[[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 06:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:: Sorry, what I meant was when listing Bangkok as a destination for a specific airline, should it be just "Bangkok" or "Bangkok-Suvarnabhmui/Bangkok-Don Muang"? [[User:Bucs2004|Bucs2004]] 18:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Ah, okay. I see what you're on about. Looking around at a couple of airline pages, like [[United Airlines destinations]] and [[Air New Zealand destinations]], it looks like the style is to put [[Bangkok|City name]] ([[Suvarnabhumi Airport|Airport name]]). This seems straightforward enough and makes sense to me. For Bangkok, Don Mueang is out of the picture and will stay out of the picture as long as Airports of Thailand gets its way, despite the pleadings of budget airlines and nostalgic travellers. -[[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 20:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:::: I meant in airport articles. [[User:Bucs2004|Bucs2004]] 22:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:::::Okay, I'm officially confused. Can you offer an example of what you want to accomplish? -[[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 06:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
::::::Okay, in the article [[San Francisco International Airport]]:
NWA flies to BKK via NRT from SFO.
Should it be [[Northwest Airlines]] (Bangkok, Tokyo-Narita) OR [[Northwest Airlines]] (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Tokyo-Narita)? [[User:Bucs2004|Bucs2004]] 02:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
:Looking at some other airport pages, it looks like the standard is to just use the city names with no wikilinks. So it's just Bangkok. For cities that have two airports, like Chicago, I can see the need to say Chicago-Midway, etc., but Bangkok now has just one operating airport. So just Bangkok is good enough. -[[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 05:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
::Many Thanks!!!! [[User:Bucs2004|Bucs2004]] 15:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
==Airlines==
Why is Air Koryo on the list even though they don't have scheduled traffic at BKK at the moment? [[User:FlyerBoy|FlyerBoy]] 12:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
:Does Air Koryo maintain a schedule, to any destination, at all? They are likely to land at BKK just about any time on diplomatic missions, special charters, etc. But I don't know if this makes a case for the airline to be listed here or not. -[[User:Wisekwai|Wisekwai]] 15:33, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
::They do maintain a proper schedule to Beijing, Shenyang and Vladivostok. But that's it. I'm going to remove it from the list since they are not operating scheduled flights to BKK at the moment. [[User:FlyerBoy|FlyerBoy]] 09:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
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