I visited the Airport Operation Building, otherwise known as Airline Office Building (AOB) yesterday. This building may be quite far for tourists to reach but I went there two times within 10 minutes of walking distance from the basement of Suvanabhumi Passenger Terminal yesterday and this morning. Cross two streets and walk some more to arrive at AOB right in front of the Airport Hotel. The building is just like the Denpasar Ngurah-Rai International AOB. The difference is exotic airline offices are located in this building, for example, Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines, Lao Airlines and Etihad Airways. Well-known airlines like United and Lufthansa are located in Terminal A, otherwise known as Concourse, and Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific and Finnair offices are located at Terminal B, the Passenger Terminal. I cannot find the offices of China Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Bangkok Airways and Emirates at all!

The airline offices of Suvanabhumi are scattered everywhere. The Airport Help staff say some airline offices are check-in offices located inside the check-in area, others in Transit area. It is confusing to everyone. However, to me the area for Airline Offices is actually smaller than the Central Block of Don Muang Airport.

There are ticketing booths of the airlines just like the ticketing booths in Macau International Airport. To me, the design copies Macau International Airport. The check-in compound and the lifts that lead to this area make the area just as big as KLIA. You can walk within 15 to 20 minutes from left to right of the passenger terminal. You can say Suvanabhumi copies KLIA for the design of the check-in area.

To go into the levels of AOB, you have to change your ID for a visitor pass.

I have got updated inflight magazines of Ethiopian Airlines, Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines, Lao Airlines, SriLankan Airlines and Turkish Airlines. They have no aircraft postcards.

Nok Air has sponsored the inflight publication of Traveller Guide, featuring some information on Chiang Mai and maps of Chiang Mai for the Royal Flora Ratchapruek event in Chiang Mai. It has stopped publishing and printing postcards and flight schedules.

There is an empty office named GMG but the Kuwait Airways staff says that office is not opened everytime daily (it was supposed to be Garuda office). Even the ticket booth of GMG Airlines is vacant. The Airport Information staff told me GMG Airlines operates charter flights to Suwarnabhumi. Other charter flights are operated by Ural Airlines and Batavia Air! But Ural Airlines and Batavia Air have no GSAs in Thailand!

If you want to go to TG Operation Building, it is near Suvanabhumi. Board Shuttle Bus No. 2. The shuttle trip takes 15 to 20 minutes from the Passenger Terminal to the Building via the Public Bus Terminal.

I slept at the Muslim Prayer Room last night at Suvanabhumi, free-of-charge. It is not crowded and is the best place to catch a sleep if you cannot spare any money for accommodation.

Mineral water is cheap at THB 7 but food’s minimum cost is THB 95.

I will not be going to Suvanabhumi again until the MRT starts operating from Suvanabhumi to Makkasan, Bangkok in late 2007 or 2008.

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