As Thai authorities race to get Suvarnabhumi airport ready for full international operations, airline officials and diplomats fear major security concerns are being overlooked, Reuters reported.
They say the ease with which a rag-tag group of anti-government protesters took over Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports exposed fundamental security problems that need to be addressed.
But with the tourist-dependent Thai economy haemorrhaging revenue as a result of the airport closures, stakeholders feel they are being pressured into restarting operations.
Airline representatives in Thailand have been highly critical of the response to the airport blockades, how the emergency was dealt with and efforts to restart operations.
Chief among those concerns are the security lapses that allowed a supposedly state-of-the-art, US$4 billion airport, opened just two years ago, to be overrun in minutes by a few hundred protesters.
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