Bangkok’s secondary airport has been partly inundated by floodwaters.

Airport news for Airport Hotels,Travel on 24/10/2011.

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Don Muang is the former primary airport for the Thai capital and is situated in the city’s northern suburbs where floodwaters are beginning to seep in from the north.

Despite rising water levels, the domestic flight facility continued to operate normal schedules on Monday. However, transportation to and from the airport proved difficult for private motorists as well as for public transportation, prompting airlines to relax restrictions and fees on passenger flight changes.

The news follows several months of much heavier than normal monsoon rains in the country’s northern provinces, which has resulted in more than 300 deaths and has forced hundreds of thousands to live in shelters while they wait for the floodwater of up to 3 metres to recede.

Now as the water makes its way to the sea, Bangkok is facing severe flooding despite authorities’ efforts to protect the economic and political heart of the country. So far the central area of Bangkok has been largely unaffected, though grocery store shelves are bare after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra advised residents to move belongings to higher floors at the weekend.

Authorities said they would continue to try to divert the floods around the city through its massive network of canals, dikes and floodgates, although the effort is likely to take weeks.

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