Suvarnabhumi Airport expects to handle almost 50,000 passengers a day during the New Year festival.
General manager Kittipong Kittikachorn said that over the 12-day period from Dec 25 to Jan 5, some 591,090 passengers in total, or 49,258 passengers a day, are expected, up 72.2% over the same period last year.
The projected tally comprises 188,637 international passengers and 402,453 domestic travellers, he said.
Aircraft take-offs and landings are estimated at 5,961, or a daily average of 497, up by 11.8%.
The top three carriers offering the most special flights in the period are Bangkok Airways with 169 flights, THAI Smile Airways (50) and T-Way Airlines, the South Korean low-cost airline, (17).
The airport says its facilities are ready to cater to the surging number of departure passengers including more staff on duty and cleaning services to mitigate the spread…
