Suvarnabhumi Airport has an area of

Suvarnabhumi Airport has an area of 20,000 Rai (8,000 acres), situates on Bangna-Trad Road, Km 15. and is 25 km. far from Bangkok. The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Aduyadej and refers to “The Golden Land”. It was officially opened for limited domestic flight service on 15 September 2006, and opened for most domestic and all international commercial flights on 28 September 2006. The building was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects. The airport has the world’s tallest free-standing control tower (132.2 meters or 434 feet), and the world’s fourth largest single-building airport terminal (563,000 square meters or 6,060,000 square feet).
Suvarnabhumi is the fourteenth busiest airport in the world, sixth busiest airport in Asia, and the busiest in the country, having handled 53 million passengers in 2012, and is also a major air cargo hub, with a total of 96 airlines. On social networks, Suvarnabhumi is the world’s most popular place where Instragram photographs were taken in 2012.
The Passenger Building comprises of 7 floors and 2 basements.
1^st Floor: Bus and Taxi Service
2^nd Floor: Domestic and International Arrivals
3^th Floor: Shops, Restaurants and VIP rooms
4^th Floor: Domestic and International Departures comprises of, immigration, customs, airline check-in and Airport Information Counters
5^th Floor: Thai Airways International Public Company Limited and Star Alliance Offices
6^th Floor: One Stop Service Center of Suvarnabhumi
7^th Floor: View Point Basements are arranged for Airport Express Station, Airport Express Platform and area for luggage conveyor transport system
Costing an estimated ฿155 billion, the airport has two parallel runways (60 m wide, 4,000 m 3,700 m long) and two parallel taxiways to accommodate simultaneous departures and arrivals. It has a total of 120 parking bays, with five of these capable of accommodating the Airbus A380. The main passenger terminal building, with a capacity of handling 76 flight operations per hour, co-locates the international and domestic terminals, though assigning them to different parts of the concourse: In the initial phase of construction, it will be capable of handling 45 million passengers and 3 million tones of cargo per year. Above the underground rail link station and in front of the passenger terminal building is a 600-room hotel operated by Accor Group under the Novotel brand. Between the airport hotel and the terminal building are the two 5-storey car park with a combined capacity of 5,000 cars.