Is The Airport Link For The Skytrain Open Yet?
No. It is regularly rescheduled and pushed back by four months as it has been for the last two years. Its current opening date is scheduled for the Queen’s birthday, August 12th, 2010.
The Airport Link (or SRT as it’s called) has had a public test opening and some people report that it’s open once a week to the public for a test ride, but it remains as of yet unopened. It had been scheduled to open for Songkran most recently before being pushed back to the Queen’s Birthday. If standard Thai scheduling practices hold firm, the next push-back-date should be the King’s birthday which lies on December 5th, 2010.
The fares are rumored to be something like 90 Baht for a full ride to or from the airport on the local line (slower, stops at all stations) and 150 Baht for a full ride on the express line (stops only at Phaya Thai and Makkasan). The geniuses who planned the project did *not* connect it directly to the connector station at Petchaburi MRT (subway), meaning that you have to exit the MRT, walk several hundred meters and then climb stairs to get to the SRT for the airport. All presumably while carrying your bags.
Amazing Thailand!
Tags: airport, airport link, skytrain, srt, suvarnabhumi
