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Bangkok's Airport of Smiles in Crisis

Bangkok's Airport of Smiles in Crisis

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Jul 14, 2012
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Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, which opened only six years ago on what amounted to a swamp, is approaching a crisis stage with overcrowding and increasingly impaired runways, travelers and officials say.

Designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects of Chicago, the airport was in trouble the day it opened, 25 km east of Bangkok, and ha…

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