Whichever year it is, the first rule with new airports is - BEWARE! - even those which claim they have been tested with thousands of dummy travellers! There will inevitably be mistakes galore, planes will be directed to the wrong gates, airbridge operators will get totally lost, luggage will end up on the wrong planes or even lost. Worse still, at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok the underground driverless mini-train got a glitch on the first evening and backtracked into a siding where it was stuck for more than 2 hours before anyone noticed! End result - more than a hundred passengers missed their flights to Europe. I will go nowhere near Suvarnabumi for at least a week. Hopefully by then the systems may be working properly - but I wonder!!
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