A second phase of expansion at Suvarnabhumi International Airport has been shelved.
The Ministry of Transport ordered the Airports of Thailand to halt a second round of improvements including a new passenger terminal and third runway expected to cost about THB135 billion.
AOT President Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said his board will make changes as recommended by the cabinet and will delay start from March to October, 2017 with hope of completing the project in 2019, according to state media.
The airport expansion has been an expensive football kicked around without finding the goal.
Soon after seizing power last year, the junta scrapped the existing expansion plan, telling Airports of Thailand it was too expensive. In October AOT returned with a THB66-billion plan to build out the improvements. Meanwhile investments continued in Don Mueang Airport, which went from mothballs to booming since it reopened to relieve pressure on Suvarnabhumi.
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