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Bangkok Airways transfer all stranded passengers from Koh Samui
, following the heavy floods that forced it to shut down Samui Airport on November 7. The airline which operates the airport said that as of 5.55am today, all passengers had been transferred out of the island.
Bangkok Airways said in a statement that at midnight of Thursday, it asked for the Civil Aviation Department's permission to reopen the airport to facilitate travellers who had been stranded on the island since November 7.
During the floods, it had cancelled a total of 18 BangkokSamui flights.
The Nation
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