Samui International Airport () , also known as Ko Samui Airport or Koh Samui Airport, is a privately owned

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on the island of

Ko Samui Ko Samui (or Koh Samui), often locally shortened to Samui (, ), is an island off the east coast of Thailand. Geographically in the Mu Ko Samui, Chumphon Archipelago, it is part of Surat Thani Province, though as of 2012, Ko Samui was granted munic ...

(Koh Samui) in

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. It is located in the island’s Bo Phut subdistrict. The airport is roughly 2 km north of the main city and largest resort centre on the island, Chaweng. It was built by

Bangkok Airways Bangkok Airways plc () is a regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It operates scheduled services to destinations in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Maldives, and Singapore. Its main base is Suvarnabhumi Airport in the Thai cap ...

. Construction began in 1982 and the airport was officially opened in April 1989.

Facilities

Samui Airport has a unique, open-air design, with the indoor areas being the gift shop, ticket office, toilets, and VIP lounge area. It is also the country's seventh-busiest airport, handling more than a million passengers annually. The airport has domestic and international terminals, and a building for check-in and baggage claim. The international terminal is about 50 metres north of the domestic terminal. Samui Airport is near the Big Buddha Pier, where ferries depart for Ko Pha-ngan. High-speed ferries to Ko Tao and

Chumphon Chumphon (, ) is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in southern Thailand, capital of the Chumphon Province and Mueang Chumphon District. The city is about 463 kilometers (288 miles) from Bangkok. As of 2018 it had a population of around 33,600. The t ...

depart from the Maenam Beach Pier, approximately 6 km northwest of the airport. 202402 Domestic Departure Entrance at USM.jpg, Domestic departure entrance 202402 Boarding Gate 3 of USM.jpg, Waiting area of the domestic terminal 202402 Domestic Outside Waiting Area of USM.jpg, Open-space waiting area of the domestic terminal 202402 Boarding Gate 2 of USM.jpg, Boarding gate of the domestic terminal 202402 Domestic Arrival Gate of USM.jpg, Airside of the arrival terminal

Airlines and destinations

Since the airport is privately owned by Bangkok Airways, it has a near-monopoly on flights. Between 2008 and 2018,

Thai Airways International Thai Airways International plc () is the flag carrier airline of Thailand. Formed in 1961 as a joint venture between SAS and Thai Airways Company, the airline has its corporate headquarters in Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Chatuchak district, Bang ...

also operated two daily flights from Bangkok. Scoot has also started a Singapore-Koh Samui route operated by the Embraer E190 jet from 13 May 2024.

Statistics

Accidents and incidents

*On 21 November 1990, Bangkok Airways Flight 125, a

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, crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain and high winds. All 38 people on board were killed. *On 4 August 2009,

Bangkok Airways Flight 266 Bangkok Airways Flight 266 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Krabi International Airport, Krabi Airport to Samui Airport, Thailand. On 4 August 2009, the aircraft skidded off the runway on landing and crashed into an old and unmanned ...

, an

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arriving from

Krabi Krabi (, ) is the capital of and main town in Krabi Province (''thesaban mueang''), on the west coast of southern Thailand, where the Krabi River flows into Phang Nga Bay. The town lies south of Bangkok, and as of 2020, has a population of 32, ...

skidded off the runway, killing one of the pilots.

References

External links

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Samui Airport
(bangkokair.com)
Official website
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