Thailand flights resume
Thailand’s main airport resumed flights after a week long siege by the anti-government protesters who took over Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports.
The first international flight left Suvarnabhumi for Sydney and the first passenger flight landed at Bangkok on Wednesday. Officials planned to reopen Suvarnabhumi on Dec. 15, but advanced the date to Friday and then Wednesday after protesters left quickly, handing back the airports.
Thai Airways plans to resume its full schedule of 30 flights a day out of the domestic Don Muang airport on Thursday.
The exit of the People's Alliance for Democracy from the airport ended the country's immediate crisis, which severed Thailand's air links to the outside world for a week, and stranded more than 300,000 tourists.
The jubilant protesters, declaring victory after Thailand's prime minister was ousted by a court ruling, went to Suvarnabhumi international airport in cars and trucks, while others cleaned up the mess that had accumulated during their weeklong takeover. Similar scenes were witnessed at the domestic Don Muang airport.
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(Originally posted for an Online Journalism class)
