Bangkok’s own Suvarnabhumi International has been ranked the sixth-best airport in the world by the Airports Council International (ACI), whose opinion on such matters would seem at the very least thoroughly informed.
Suvarnabhumi’s vaunted status came as the result of 400,000 passenger surveys, conducted at close to 200 airports throughout the world. Bangkok’s largest airport was able to compete for the ACI’s most coveted award since it was designed to accommodate annual traffic of greater than 40 million.
Each of the questioned travelers, on whose opinion the rankings were based, was asked to grade the airport through which he or she was passing in such fields as luggage search, accessibility, signage, passport checking and hygiene.
The top five airports in the world, according to the ACI at any rate, are all located within Asia as well. They are the Changi Airport of Singapore, China’s Beijing International Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Guangzhou Airport.
