Cargo flights can resume from Bangkok
Tuesday, December 02 2008 @ 02:54 PM ICT
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Cargo flights can leave Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday as soon as shippers and airlines are ready, the head of the airports authority said. "I have authorized pure cargo flights to resume from 0900 hours this morning and it's up to them to start when they are ready," Serirat Prasutanond, managing director of Airports of Thailand PCL, said.He said passenger flights would not restart until anti-government protesters ended their sit-in, which has halted all passenger and cargo flights for the past week.A cargo sector official said a number of air cargo aircraft were expected to take off from Suvarnabhumi on Tuesday.
The cargo flights were scheduled after a meeting between the Transport Ministry and private businesses on Monday, Kasem Jariyawong, president of the Thai Airfreight Forwarders Association, said, adding that he did not expect the protesters to block these flights.