Don Muang International Airport Essay

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Chapter 1: Departure, Destination, and Alternate Airports
1.1 Departure Airport
The departure airport selected is also located in the capital city of Thailand which is Bangkok. It is the longer lasting airport in Bangkok until today and also still operating especially serving as a hub to low cost carriers. The airport that has been selected is Don Mueang International Airport. It is holding the IATA code of DMK and holding the ICAO code of VTBD (TheNation, 2012). This particular airport is identified as one of the oldest airport operating today within the Asia continent. Don Mueang Airport is owned by the Royal Thai Air Force since the 27th of March year 1914 (TheNation, 2012). 10 years after the ownership of the local air force, commercial air transport services finally took place in year 1924 whereby the first airline to arrive on the opening day was KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (TheNation, 2012). New Bangkok airport, Suvarnabhumi Airport was officially introduced and opened in year 2006 which had influenced Don Mueang Airport to be shut down for a few years before it reopened one year later on the 24th of March along with renovations done (TheNation, 2012).

Figure 1.1: Don Mueang International Airport Terminal
Don Mueang International Airport consist of two runways which are …show more content…

In this airport, it has three runways which are runway 15R/33L measured at a length of 3,750 metres and at 12,303 feet, runway 15L/33R measured at the same length as the first runway, and runway 16/34 measured at 4,000 metres and at 13,123 feet. All three surfaces of runways are made from asphalt (Korea Herald, 2017). This airport also has one helipad which is marked H1 with a length of 19 metres and at 63 feet and the helipad is made from concrete surface (Korea Herald,

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