Changi-Suvarnabhumi Traffic

Last week my planned four nation business trip was severely disrupted. I was to be traveling to Bangkok and Yangon last Thursday to visit my instant coffee customers. The trips were disrupted due to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport. I then tried to travel to Yangon from Changi Airport, but found all flights to and fro from Yangon were full till December 2oth. Wow, this must be the peak season Yangon travellers.

Meanwhile, some interested facts were uncovered while trying to salvage my four nation trip (Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangkok, and Yangon) originally planned. There are 303 flights a week between Singapore and Bangkok . 2.29 million passengers plied this route in the first ten month of 2008. Whilst 2.1 million and 1.5 million passengers were flying Singapore-Jakarta and Singapore-KL respectively.

According to data compliled by Airport of Thailand, Changi sent 2.9 million passangers to Bangkok.  Changi Airport was the top contributors to Suvarnabhumi Airport. I wonder how much business Changi stands to lose as a result of last week’s disruption. For me, I just hope to be back to Bangkok as soon as the situation allows. Though, my customers and I can communicate via emails and telephone calls, nothing can replace personal touch.