Thailand vowed its main airport will be open by the end of the week after thousands of sit-in protestors succeeded in forcing the country’s prime minister from office today.

Thailand’s under-siege government finally stepped down today in the face of mass protests, but the country’s main airport looked set to remain closed for a least another fortnight.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the main party in the ruling coalition and banned the prime minister and 36 party executives from politics for five years.