Udon Air Passenger Traffic

Post by **pomps** » August 25, 2015, 4:02 am

Came back Udonsville Thai airways in the afternoon,there were two Lion airplanes already there

Parking was horrendous,felt sorry if anybody had properly parked there,the double parking of the cars would have made it impossible to shunt them all out of the way to get out

Airport authorities should physically check at nightime.10pm preferably as that is the timing for last flight out of Udon and check how many cars are using the carpark as longstay

Post by **wazza** » August 25, 2015, 4:22 am

Parking inspectors already out with the giks.

Bring on wheel bracing. Only take a day to get the word around.

Post by **747man** » August 25, 2015, 11:25 am

pomps wrote:Came back Udonsville Thai airways in the afternoon,there were two Lion airplanes already there Parking was horrendous,felt sorry if anybody had properly parked there,the double parking of the cars would have made it impossible to shunt them all out of the way to get out
Airport authorities should physically check at nightime.10pm preferably as that is the timing for last flight out of Udon and check how many cars are using the carpark as longstay

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Post by **papafarang** » August 25, 2015, 11:30 am

I don't get it, huge car park, should be fine for parking, long stay parking charges should be enforced, Heathrow parking
short stay 15 quid for 20 mins, long stay 235 quid for 16 days

Post by **Lone Star** » August 25, 2015, 4:07 pm

Post by **Brian Davis** » August 25, 2015, 5:06 pm

papafarang wrote:...... Heathrow parking short stay 15 quid for 20 mins, long stay 235 quid for 16 days

Oh my God, I have been away a long time!

Post by **FrazeeDK** » August 26, 2015, 8:49 am

I've said it before.. As far as I know the Airport Organization of Thailand (AOT) owns the airport and its grounds and is responsible for managing it.. Why they can't scrape down any of the many fields west of the main parking lot and pave them, adding several hundred slots is beyond me... I wager they could get it done in two weeks time.. for the long term perhaps a 4 level parking garage out front to quadruple what they have now... Air travel into Udon will only go up over the next few years..

Post by **reddevil** » August 26, 2015, 10:00 am

papafarang wrote:I don't get it, huge car park, should be fine for parking, long stay parking charges should be enforced, Heathrow parking
short stay 15 quid for 20 mins, long stay 235 quid for 16 days

Swampy Parking 24 hr 250 Baht.So someone is loosing a heck of a lot of money each day in Udon.

Post by **socksy** » August 26, 2015, 10:14 am

Remove seating, shops etc from the ground floor of the terminal, widen the doors slightly so that the locals can park inside as close to the departure point as possible. I presume creating a car park further from the terminal building with a free shuttle bus is not in the equation.

Post by **socksy** » September 23, 2015, 8:52 am

Left the car overnight for free Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights just gone. This facility is for lanes 1-5 opposite the check in area. The only thing is you will likely have to arrive early in the hope that someone leaves and a space becomes available. Same old nonsense applies with people double parking in the long stay area and some unable to be shunted due to the retards leaving the handbrakes on or in gear.

Post by **wazza** » September 23, 2015, 9:34 am

Socksy

Problem for me is I cant leave my car out of gear. Security issue so i can remove the key.

Post by **socksy** » September 23, 2015, 9:42 am

wazza wrote:Socksy

Problem for me is I cant leave my car out of gear. Security issue so i can remove the key.

I understand Wazza but I doubt very much that you suffer from TAFS (This As F*** Syndrome) and would park appropriately unlike a large amount of ignorant and rude locals.

Post by **BobHelm** » September 23, 2015, 9:51 am

wazza wrote:Socksy

Problem for me is I cant leave my car out of gear. Security issue so i can remove the key.

I had a Honda City automatic like that - you could only take the ignition key out while it was in Park.
However you could then put the ignition key into a slot in the gear shift panel & move it into Neutral...

Post by **Udon Map** » September 23, 2015, 9:57 am

Same issue with my truck. There's a button on the gear shift base which allows it to be shifted out of Park with the key removed.

Post by **wazza** » September 23, 2015, 10:01 am

For me i actually prefer to pay 200 baht one way for a taxi.

But i do live in the city and lwave my car at home.

Post by **parrot** » February 11, 2016, 10:39 pm

For 2015

Post by **parrot** » August 4, 2016, 4:39 pm

The June numbers are in.......173,431, as compared to 118,417 in 2014.
http://www.aviation.go.th/upload/downlo ... 95b8de.pdf
That's a 40+% increase (2 years)

Post by **BobHelm** » August 4, 2016, 4:50 pm

It does not surprise me at all parrot.
Came up on the Thai Smile flight from BKK on Monday afternoon. It is, by far, the most expensive way to travel by air between the two cities (1,580 baht, one way) - but my only choice from Swampy. Not a seat to be had on the plane when we took off - very, very few customers were non Asian.

I have used Lion & Air Asia this year as well & was not especially surprised when they had good occupancy because of their price - Thai did surprise me!!

Post by **macca46** » August 4, 2016, 5:40 pm

You are not wrong about the price very expensive a Thai friend in Aus. booked last week to come back in April next year for her and her husband $720.00 return each from Melbourne which is very cheap so maybe the internal flights are propping up international?

Post by **BobHelm** » August 4, 2016, 5:47 pm

It was my fault Macca as I had not pre-booked a ticket - well I had, actually, but the flight had already flown by the time I arrived in Swampy.

The waste of money, pre-booked price was 1,100 baht each way.
Lion can be really cheap if you pre-book (580 baht) but can be 3 times the cheap price if you want to last minute get it on a popular flight!!