On February 1, Mr. Thavorn Seniam, Deputy Minister of Transport Disclosed after the meeting to discuss ways of integration and coordination between agencies on air transport that The meeting gave the Department of Airports (TU), Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (BOT), Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited or AOT and the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (EXAT) to lead Propose problems, obstacles and solutions for solving common aviation problems. Since the past, it was found that even though the 4 agencies have already had some integration in working together. But there are still problems and obstacles arise in many cases. Especially issues regarding the safety of taking off and landing aircraft in some airports such as Krabi Airport A new building was being built to obscure the visibility of the CU and Betong airport control towers. There are trees that obscure the visibility of the landings, etc.
Mr Thavorn said the overall revenue of the airline business in 2020 was reduced to about 10%, both in passenger volume. And income dropped to the lowest in April 2020, then began to improve until the current increase to 50-60%, but when the situation of the new COVID-19 epidemic has dropped. Some small But initially it is expected that the revenue trend in 2021 is expected to improve over 2020 due to the introduction of the vaccine to Thailand in February. However, it was originally expected that domestic aviation would begin to recover between 2022-2023 and international recovery in 2023-2024, but now, when faced with a new wave of COVID-19, we have to wait and see results from the Transport Association. International Air (IATA) again
Mr Thavorn added that he had commissioned the TMB to speed up a revenue-generating plan from 29 airports to offset the decline in passenger revenue during COVID-19, such as air cargo services, ground services. At the same time assigned to the business department Oversee and manage areas within the airport to make the most of such as renting an aircraft repair shop (Hangar), etc.
News reports from the TAO said that for the fiscal year 2020 gross income was 812.62 million baht, a 41.56% decrease or a decrease of approximately 400 million baht compared to the fiscal year 2019.
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