Leading flight planning and handling groups have abandoned Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport after Airports of Thailand (AOT) awarded exclusive handling rights for business aircraft operations to local charter operator MJets. They say they have been compelled to establish alternative handling operations at the Thai capital’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport over concerns about the new handling operation at Don Mueang.
Royal Airport Services, which lost out in the bid, has filed a lawsuit in Thailand’s administrative court arguing that AOT did not adhere to the rules of the bidding process. According to a handling expert who attended the bid meeting, and who spoke to AIN on condition of anonymity, MJets had been excluded from the process for failing to meet the technical requirements, only to be mysteriously reinstated later and awarded the rights without any further explanation by AOT officials.
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