Bangkok Airport Back To Its Old Tricks: Immigration Understaffing & Endless Lines During Peak Times

After two years of calm, it seems that travelers arriving at Bangkok Airport are in for some pretty bad arrival experiences during peak times, as reports from the airport revealed this weekend.

For some reason, Bangkok’s main Suvarnabhumi Airport still suffers from inadequate staffing, which has been a problem for quite some time as, during peak arrival periods, the few officers on duty can’t handle all the passengers to be processed expediently.

In the past couple of weeks and months, arrival numbers in Thailand have started to surge again and as a result, one would expect the immigration department to be adequately prepared to handle these passengers – apparently not.

I first noticed something wasn’t right when I last arrived at BKK in mid-October and the line already stretched from the main immigration area down into the concourse:

It was already pretty grim at…