Suvarnabhumi Airport Temporary Closed on July 16th 2007

You may wonder if Suvarnabhumi airport ever been closed before the incident at the end of year 2008? The answer is YES!

On July 16th 2007, the van gang who operated similar to airport taxi service blocked the road access to the airport and blocked the road in front of passenger building. The access to the airport has been disabled temporarily and the airport resumed it's operation after negotiation. The reason of the closing might came from the cleaning up of the airport corruptions after the coup took out the old power that shadowed over many many organization's management bodies.

Not many people remember that day or may not even know it happened.

So when yellow shirt PADs gathered at the airport and authorities were forced to close the airport, it was not the first time.

Suvarnabhumi Airport Temporary Closed on July 16th 2007
The following photographs were taken on that day just a minute before the time of closing.