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A passenger walks through Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. Thailand's airport expansion plan rests on the hope that travel will recover from he coronavirus pandemic. © Reuters YOHEI MURAMATSU, Nikkei staff writer July 1, 2020 12:04 JST | Thailand Copy Copied BANGKOK -- Thailand has pushed ahead with an ambitious airport expansion in the Bangkok region despite the plunge in air traffic during the coronavirus pandemic. The expansion, dubbed the Eastern Airport City project, will double the total capacity of three airports around the Southeast Asian nation's capital to about 160 million passengers by 2024 at a cost of 290 billion baht...
