Sleepless in Bangkok
Residents living near the capital’s new airport told the Bangkok Post newspaper that home deliveries of sleeping pills were the airport’s latest remedy for communal insomnia and stress caused by the constant overhead jet traffic.
“First they gave us earplugs, then sleeping pills,” the paper quoted Thanatos Preeprem, an affected resident.
He and other residents living near the airport said sleeping pills were delivered by a mobile medical unit run by the AoT,which manages the airport.
“And now that some of us have developed respiratory problems, possibly caused by oil vapour from the aircraft, AoT suggested we should buy face masks,” said Thanatos. Some 32 communities in the airport’s vicinity have threatened to launch a balloon protest on Friday to halt all flights unless the AoT meets their demands to be compensated for constant noise pollution.
A resolution passed in May allowed the airport authorities to revise the “excessive noise radius”. But under the revised AoT noise pollution radius, nearly 40% of the residents have been excluded from the mitigation scheme, the Bangkok Post said.
The AoT had also revised its composition payment despite previously agreeing to pay compensation. The community uproar is the latest of several mishaps to rattle Bangkok’s new airport.
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