Why is Giant Demon Statues At Bangkok Airport, Orient Airways Viewed As Unlucky?
The largest airport in Thailand is planning to relocate 12 giant “demon statues” in a bid to calm facility employees who believe bad luck is attached to the figures. Airports of Thailand (AOT) president Serirat Prasutanond said the statues located in the arrival concourse of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport will be moved to the check-in area at a cost of around US$54,785. In a statement, Prasutanond said that the facility wants to install the statues in the check-in offer passengers and visitors to the airport a opportunity to appreciate the beauty of the statues. But the English-language Bangkok Post newspaper reported that, Niran Thiranartsin, the airport’s director, had admitted the move was partly prompted by complaints from airport employees. The “demon statues” have been blamed by shopkeepers for the problems they have endured at the facility, where supporters of the People’s Alliance of Democracy (PAD) had carried a siege last year and had threatened violence which had paralysed t
