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spiderbraidsWe move up a year from Part 1, to September 2006, a notable month both locally and for me personally. These pictures represent an intersection between the two: My sister was going to the Netherlands to study for her MBA (where she'd meet her future spouse, and where we'd eventually visit as part of a trip to attend her wedding :-)), and we sent her off at the Don Muang Airport, in its final month of full international service before the opening of the new Suvarnabhumi airport at the end of the month (it was actually fully shutdown, but was later put back into service; DMK still operates today, but only for budget airlines, and mainly domestic)
(Again, lots of blurry photos)
It's 10:45pm (note the clock at the bottom, though it's actually a few minutes fast), and we're on our way to the airport
Check-in signs for Thai Airways' now defunct prestige services to JFK and LAX... (and get ready to hear the word "now defunct" a lot ;-))
...and an advert for their upcoming expansion to JNB, but no indication that it'll be from a different airport than this one (Also now defunct as of 2015)
A ticket office of the now defunct PBAir, and British Airways signage for priority check-in
Passengers (and their companions) watching "Suvarnabhumi Station", an in-house closed-circuit TV program about the upcoming new airport
Wide shot of activity at the soon-to-be-former BKK
My sister all queued up to check-in for her EVA Air flight, and it looks like she's heading to Amsterdam in relative style, in Super Business :-) (EVA's BKK-AMS flight is one of the relatively few things relevant to this photoset that's still around, pandemic suspension notwithstanding)
A kiosk showing a model of the new airport
The classic Don Muang FIDS, plus logos for a couple airlines, half of which are no longer relevant to BKK: Dragonair is now Cathay Dragon, LTU was absorbed by the now defunct Air Berlin, Tiger Airways was absorbed by Scoot (and as I'm typing this, the Australian branch has just officially been shut down this month), and United no longer serves BKK on their own metal
Goodbye Don Muang (...well, at least until the powers that be decide to put you back into service :-))
(Again, lots of blurry photos)
It's 10:45pm (note the clock at the bottom, though it's actually a few minutes fast), and we're on our way to the airport
Check-in signs for Thai Airways' now defunct prestige services to JFK and LAX... (and get ready to hear the word "now defunct" a lot ;-))
...and an advert for their upcoming expansion to JNB, but no indication that it'll be from a different airport than this one (Also now defunct as of 2015)
A ticket office of the now defunct PBAir, and British Airways signage for priority check-in
Passengers (and their companions) watching "Suvarnabhumi Station", an in-house closed-circuit TV program about the upcoming new airport
Wide shot of activity at the soon-to-be-former BKK
My sister all queued up to check-in for her EVA Air flight, and it looks like she's heading to Amsterdam in relative style, in Super Business :-) (EVA's BKK-AMS flight is one of the relatively few things relevant to this photoset that's still around, pandemic suspension notwithstanding)
A kiosk showing a model of the new airport
The classic Don Muang FIDS, plus logos for a couple airlines, half of which are no longer relevant to BKK: Dragonair is now Cathay Dragon, LTU was absorbed by the now defunct Air Berlin, Tiger Airways was absorbed by Scoot (and as I'm typing this, the Australian branch has just officially been shut down this month), and United no longer serves BKK on their own metal
Goodbye Don Muang (...well, at least until the powers that be decide to put you back into service :-))
