Phuket International Airport

Phuket International Airport (Thai: ท่าอากาศยานภูเก็ต) (IATA: HKT, ICAO: VTSP) is an international airport serving the Phuket Province of Thailand. It is in the north of Phuket Island, 32 kilometres (20 mi) from the centre of Phuket City. The airport plays a major role in Thailand's tourism industry, as Phuket Island is a popular resort destination. It is the third-busiest airport in Thailand in terms of passengers, after Suvarnabhumi Airport and Don Mueang International Airport in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. The airport set a record 15.1 million arrivals and departures in 2016, up 17.8 percent from 2015.[2]

Phuket International Airport

ท่าอากาศยานภูเก็ต
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorAirports of Thailand PCL (AOT)
ServesPhuket
Location222 Mai Khao, Thalang, Phuket, Thailand
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL82 ft / 25 m
Coordinates08°06′47″N 098°19′00″E
Websitephuket.airportthai.co.th
Map
HKT
Location of Phuket Airport in Thailand
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 3,000 9,843 Asphalt concrete
Statistics (2017)
Total passengers18,855,637 11.6%
International passengers9,200,058 13.5%
Domestic passengers7,655,579 9.4%
Aircraft movements106,093 8.5%
Freight (tonnes)53,199 23.1%
Sources: Airport[1]

Facilities

Terminals
Bird's eye view of the terminal
Inside domestic terminal in 2019
Phuket Airport in 2010
Boeing 747-400s departure from Phuket Airport

The airport has three terminals: Terminal 2 is used for international flights, and Terminal 3 for domestic flights. Terminal X for charter flights opened in February 2014.

Phuket Airport underwent a 5.14-billion-baht expansion and renovation, with the work completed in 2016.[3] The capacity of the new international terminal is 12.5 million passengers per year.[4] The expansion increased airport capacity to 20 million passengers a year from its previous capacity of 6.5 million.[5] A rail link from an alternate airport, Krabi, was suggested in 2012, as Phuket is congested with little room to expand.[6]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo (suspended)
Air Arabia Seasonal: Sharjah[7]
AirAsia Kuala Lumpur–International
Air China Beijing–Capital, Chengdu–Shuangliu,[8] Hangzhou
Asiana Airlines Seoul–Incheon
Azur Air[9] Seasonal charter: Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow–Vnukovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, St. Petersburg, Tyumen, Ufa, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg (all suspended)[10]
Azur Air Ukraine Seasonal charter: Kyiv–Boryspil
Bangkok Airways Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai,[11] Ko Samui, Pattaya–U-Tapao
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong
China Eastern Airlines Chengdu–Shuangliu, Kunming, Shanghai–Pudong, Taiyuan, Xi'an[12]
China Southern Airlines Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan
Chongqing Airlines Chongqing
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
El Al Tel Aviv[13]
Emirates Dubai–International
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi
EVA Air Taipei–Taoyuan[14]
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki, Stockholm–Arlanda
Firefly Penang
Go First Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata,[15] Mumbai
GullivAir Seasonal charter: Bucharest (begins 28 October 2022),[16] Sofia (begins 28 October 2022),[16]
Hainan Airlines Beijing–Capital, Shenzhen
HK Express Hong Kong
I-Fly Seasonal charter: Moscow–Vnukovo (suspended)[9]
IndiGo Bangalore,[17] Delhi,[18] Mumbai[19]
Jetstar Airways Melbourne, Sydney
Jetstar Asia Airways Singapore[20]
Jin Air Seasonal: Seoul–Incheon
Juneyao Airlines Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air Seoul–Incheon
Kunming Airlines Kunming
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal charter: Warsaw–Chopin[21]
Lucky Air Kunming, Zhengzhou
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur–International[22]
Malindo Air Kuala Lumpur–International, Langkawi[23]
Myanmar National Airlines Kawthaung,[24] Yangon
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa[25]
Nok Air Bangkok–Don Mueang, Beijing–Capital,[26] Hangzhou,[27] Ubon Ratchathani
Nordwind Airlines Seasonal charter: Chelyabinsk,[28] Irkutsk,[28] Khabarovsk,[28] Moscow–Sheremeteyevo,[28] Nizhny Novgorod,[28] Rostov-on-don-Platov,[28] St. Petersburg,[28] Yakutsk (all suspended),[28]
Okay Airways Xi'an
Seasonal: Hangzhou[29]
Pegas Fly Seasonal charter: Belgorod,[28] Blagoveshchensk,[28] Chita,[28] Krasnodar,[28] Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo,[28] Novosibirsk,[28] Orenburg,[28] Perm,[28] Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,[28] Samara,[28] Surgut,[28] Tyumen,[28] Ulan-Ude ,[30] Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (all suspended)[28]
Qatar Airways Doha
Qingdao Airlines Ningbo,[31] Zhengzhou[32]
Rossiya Airlines Seasonal charter: Moscow–Vnukovo (suspended)[33]
Royal Flight Seasonal charter: Barnaul,[28] Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Novokuznetsk,[28] Omsk,[28] Tomsk (all suspended)[28]
S7 Airlines Seasonal: Irkutsk,[34] Novosibirsk (both suspended) [35]
SalamAir Muscat[36]
SCAT Airlines Seasonal charter: Almaty, Nur-Sultan
Scoot Singapore
Shanghai Airlines Zhengzhou[37]
Shenzhen Airlines Shenzhen
Sichuan Airlines Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chongqing, Tianjin, Xi'an[38]
Singapore Airlines Singapore[39]
Spring Airlines Chengdu–Shuangliu, Huai'an, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen,[40] Shijiazhuang
Sunclass Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg,[41] Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda[41]
Sunday Airlines Seasonal charter: Almaty,[42] Bishkek, [42]
Thai AirAsia Bangkok–Don Mueang, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Macau, Pattaya–U-Tapao, Phnom Penh,[43] Siem Reap, Singapore, Udon Thani, Wuhan
Thai Airways International Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi
Seasonal: Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London–Heathrow, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sydney, Zürich
Thai Lion Air Bangkok–Don Mueang, Changsha, Chengdu–Shuangliu, Chongqing,[44] Hangzhou, Hefei, Nanjing, Shanghai–Pudong, Tianjin,[45] Xi'an,[46] Zhengzhou[47]
Thai Smile Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong,[48] Singapore[49]
Charter: Lanzhou[50]
Thai Vietjet Air Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Rai,[51] Singapore (begins 2 June 2022)[52]
TUI Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick, Manchester
Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[53] Gothenburg,[54] Helsinki,[55] Stockholm–Arlanda[54]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul[56]
T'way Air Seoul–Incheon[57]
Uzbekistan Airways Seasonal: Tashkent[58]
VietJet Air Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam Airlines Ho Chi Minh City
West Air Chongqing[59]
XiamenAir Fuzhou

Traffic statistics

Phuket is a favourite tourist destination in the region. International passengers mainly come from Asia Pacific and Europe.[60] In 2012 it ranked second-busiest in total passenger traffic, after Suvarnabhumi Airport in the Bangkok metropolitan area. In mid-2015 the airport, designed to handle 20 flights per hour, was servicing 23 per hour.[61]

Phuket airport handled 12.9 million passengers in 2015, 12.8 percent more than 2014, with international numbers rising 8.27 percent to 6.95 million and domestic up 18.6 percent to 5.9 million. Aircraft movements grew 11.6 percent to 84,758, with 43,996 international (up 7.63 percent) and 40,762 domestic (up 16.1 percent).[3]

Passenger movements
Year Domestic International Total Change%
1995 1,730,895 919,503 2,650,398 9.68
1996 1,896,068 879,688 2,775,756 4.73
1997 1,898,303 942,336 2,840,639 2.34
1998 2,132,108 1,010,606 3,142,714 10.63
1999 2,035,836 1,189,895 3,225,731 2.64
2000 2,171,146 1,358,745 3,541,575 9.43
2001 2,240,264 1,370,429 3,610,693 2.29
2002 2,230,663 1,382,858 3,613,521 0.08
2003 2,104,548 1,496,401 3,600,949 0.35
2004 2,826,022 2,024,879 4,850,901 34.71
2005 2,246,723 922,311 3,169,034 34.67
2006 3,032,976 1,677,723 4,710,699 48.65
2007 3,513,966 2,190,399 5,704,365 21.09
2008 3,321,443 2,409,305 5,703,748 0.46
2009 3,489,012 2,290,906 5,779,918 0.86
2010 3,701,427 3,342,356 7,043,783 21.87
2011 4,097,276 4,370,719 8,467,995 20.22
2012 4,475,624 5,065,928 9,541,552 12.68
2013 4,958,880 6,383,611 11,342,491 18.87
2014 4,976,451 6,425,047 11,401,498 0.52
2015 5,909,356 6,950,000 12,859,356 12.8
2016 6,997,879 8,109,306 15,107,185 17.48
2017 7,655,579 9,200,058 16,855,637 11.6
2018 7,817,894 10,403,631 18,221,525 8.1
2019 7,452,262 10,666,178 18,118,440 0.57

Aircraft movements
Year Domestic International Total Change%
1995 11,135 9,380 20,515 6.79
1996 11,586 9,626 21,212 3.40
1997 11,402 10,257 21,659 2.11
1998 9,673 10,272 19,945 7.91
1999 9,391 11,887 21,278 6.68
2000 11,850 11,472 23,322 9.61
2001 12,705 12,467 25,172 7.93
2002 10,920 12,248 23,168 7.96
2003 12,669 12,015 24,684 6.54
2004 16,765 15,917 32,682 32.40
2005 14,115 9,970 24,085 26.30
2006 17,207 13,680 30,887 28.24
2007 23,915 16,884 40,799 32.09
2008 20,814 17,177 37,991 6.88
2009 20,883 16,987 37,870 0.32
2010 25,311 23,257 48,568 28.25
2011 27,932 28,741 56,673 16.69
2012 28,578 32,426 61,004 7.64
2013 32,370 40,219 72,589 18.99
2014 35,096 40,878 75,974 4.66
2015 40,762 43,996 84,758 16.1
2016 48,883 48,930 97,813 15.4
2017 52,609 53,484 106,093 8.5
2018 54,514 63,766 118,280 11.49
2019 50,409 65,167 115,576 2.29

Freight tonnage
Year Domestic International Total Change%
1995 5,659 5,021 10,680 198.16
1996 7,994 5,620 13,614 27.47
1997 8,285 7,522 15,807 16.11
1998 8,213 7,683 15,896 0.56
1999 10,963 11,455 22,418 41.03
2000 9,841 11,091 20,932 6.63
2001 9,345 9,651 18,996 9.25
2002 10,352 12,855 23,207 22.17
2003 10,866 12,338 23,204 0.01
2004 13,382 14,659 28,041 20.85
2005 12,306 6,425 18,731 33.20
2006 13,384 4,729 18,113 3.30
2007 13,268 6,452 19,720 8.87
2008 12,671 6,535 19,206 2.61
2009 13,195 7,780 20,975 9.21
2010 17,434 12,810 30,244 44.19
2011 17,627 10,687 28,314 6.38
2012 18,798 15,541 34,339 21.28
2013 17,234 17,386 34,620 0.82
2014 17,653 22,631 40,284 16.36
2015 14,552 22,822 37,374 7.22
2016 14,676 28,538 43,214 5.73
2017 15,670 37,529 53,990 23.1
2018 15,864 46,274 62,138 15.09
2019 11,592 41,120 52,712 15.17

Busiest international routes
Busiest international routes to and from Phuket International Airport (2019)[62]
RankAirportPassengers handled Change%
1 Singapore1,052,635 0.58%
2 Kuala Lumpur871,584 1.00%
3 Shanghai–Pudong760,864 1.64%
4 Hong Kong642,904 4.57%
5 Chengdu546,908 32.49%
6 Seoul–Incheon461,967 6.57%
7 Doha422,087 23.08%
8 Beijing-Capital412,213 4.58%
9 Dubai-International367,967 13.90%
10 Moscow-Sheremetyevo362,977 11.53%

Top destinations
Busiest international routes (scheduled) from Phuket by flights per week (winter 2019)
RankDestinationsFrequency (weekly)Airlines
1 Singapore 75 Jetstar Asia Airways, SilkAir/Singapore Airlines, Thai AirAsia, Scoot
2 Kuala Lumpur–International 56 AirAsia, Malaysia Airlines, Malindo Air
3 Shanghai–Pudong, China 42 Juneyao Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Spring Airlines, Thai Lion Air
4 Hong Kong 39 Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Express, Thai AirAsia, Thai Smile
5= Beijing–Capital, China 21 Air China, Hainan Airlines, Thai Airways
5= Doha, Qatar 21 Qatar Airways
5= Guangzhou, China 21 China Southern Airlines
8= Chengdu, China 18 China Eastern Airlines, Nok Air, Shenzhen Airlines, Sichuan Airlines
8= Chongqing, China 18 Chongqing Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Tianjin Airlines
10= Dubai–International, United Arab Emirates 14 Emirates
10= Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Russia 14 Aeroflot
10= Seoul–Incheon, South Korea 14 Korean Air, Asiana
13 Shenzhen, China 13 China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines
14 Changsha, China 10 China Southern Airlines, Shandong Airlines
15 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 10 VietJet, Vietnam Airlines

Busiest domestic routes
Busiest domestic routes to and from Phuket Airport (2019)[62]
RankAirportPassengers handled Change%
1Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi3,371,171 0.29%
2Bangkok–Don Mueang3,005,310 9.86%
3Chiang Mai415,771 12.23%
4Rayong-Pattaya-U-Tapao165,992 4.58%
5Samui154,242 10.97%

Phuket Airport passenger totals (millions)
Annual passenger traffic at HKT airport. See source Wikidata query.

Incidents and accidents
  • On 15 April 1985 a Thai Airways Boeing 737-2P5 crashed, killing all 11 people on board. The crew had issued a radio call informing air traffic control that both engines had flamed out. No cause could be determined for the engine shutdown.[63]
  • On 31 August 1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 from Hat Yai International Airport crashed into the ocean upon final approach, killing all 83 people on board. The investigation determined pilot error as the primary cause.[64]
  • On 16 September 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 arriving on a scheduled flight from Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport crashed after hitting the runway while attempting to land in driving rain and severe wind shear. The McDonnell Douglas MD-82 slid off the runway, split into two, and exploded into flames after an apparent attempt to execute a go-around moments before touchdown. There were 123 passengers and seven crew on board. 89 died and 40 were injured.

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