I was there right when the floods started causing the closure of major highways until one week after Don Muang (the domestic airport show in pictures here) was closed.
I sincerely hope that whomever owned the airplanes parked at Don Muang had better quality information than us general public had (including people living around the airport) because the official stance has been that it would
not been flooded because of adequate flood walls until ... well, until a couple hours before water came in.
Don Muang has long been used as:
- a refugee centre for people evacuated from the most severely flooded areas in the vicinity (e.g. Pathum Thani)
- the headquarters of the FROC (Flood Relief Operations Centre)
- a place to park cars in an attempt to protect them from floods
(and still is in some ways), which tends to demonstrate that the authorities didn't have much of a clue that it would be eventually flooded (and severely flooded as pictures show).
The same goes for Suwarnabhumi (the international airport). Once again the official word is that it's safe, but it turns out that it's right in the path of water that is being diverted from Bangkok. So despite its behing behind 3.5m high so-called dykes (mostly sandbags)...
This picture isn't bad either:
