BANGKOK, Dec 19 (TNA) – Holiday
travellers are advised to arrive at five international airports three hours before their flight’s schedule departure
time during the New Year festival as about 600,000 passengers
are expected to pack the airport daily.
Extra hours will allow air passengers to have plenty of
time for the screening process in line with instructions from the International
Civil Aviation Organisation, said Pol Maj-General Weerapol Charoensiri, Commander
of Immigration Division 2 warned holiday.
At Suvarnabhumi Airport alone, from Dec
15-31, there will be 14,530 inbound and outbound flights, higher than 13,860
flights last year. The number of passengers is projected about 160,000
passengers per day.
Immigration checkpoints will intensify
crime fighting plan and facilitate security clearance during Christmas and New
Year holidays at five international airports – Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang,
Phuket, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai from Dec 20 to Jan 6, 2020.
The immigration staff will be deployed
at all counters to ease passenger congestion and the immigration offices will work
with the airport agency and airlines to assist travelers to go through the
immigration process as quickly as possible. (TNA)
