Thai protesters move to besieged airports

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BANGKOK, Dec 01 (AP): Anti-government protesters reinforced their siege of Bangkok's two airports Monday as the politically paralysed country struggled with more than 300,000 stranded travelers.
In a switch of tactics, the People's Alliance for Democracy said demonstrators will end their more than three-month sit-in at the prime minister's office compound and join compatriots at the airports, which they seized last week in their push to oust the government. That action severed all civilian flights in and out of the capital.
Airlines, meanwhile, were flying dozens of empty planes out of Bangkok's international airport.
Some 30 planes had been flown out starting Sunday and an additional 50 were to be moved later Monday, some to protest-free airports elsewhere in Thailand so that stranded tourists, businesspeople and others can fly out of the country, said Serirat Prasutanont, acting director of the Airports Authority of Thailand.