After numerous delays and decades of planning, the airport opened for limited service on 15 September 2006, and opened for all commercial flights on 28 September.
The airport is located in Racha Thewa in Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan Province, about 25 km east of downtown Bangkok.
The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and refers to the golden kingdom hypothesized to have been located somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, this airport has the :
world's tallest control tower (132.2 m), and the
world's second largest single building and airport terminal (563,000 m²), a little smaller than Hong Kong International Airport (Chek Lap Kok Airport) (570,000 m²)
and larger than South Korea's Incheon International Airport (496,000 m²).
Suvarnabhumi is one of the busiest airports in Asia and Bangkok's primary airport for all commercial airline flights. The airport inherited the airport code BKK from Don Mueang after the older airport ceased commercial flights.
Ps. Check out the queues at Immigration!
Pps. View from my hotel (Novotel) ...
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