Phuket International Airport

Phuket International Airport ท่าอากาศยานภูเก็ต
IATA: HKT – ICAO: VTSP
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Airports of Thailand PCL (AOT)
Serves	Phuket , Thailand
Location	222 Tambon Mai Khao, Amphoe Thalang, Phuket, Thailand
Hub for	Bangkok Airways Thai AirAsia Thai Airways
Elevation AMSL	82 ft / 25 m
Coordinates	08°06′47″N 098°19′00″E / 8.11306°N 98.31667°ECoordinates: 08°06′47″N 098°19′00″E / 8.11306°N 98.31667°E
Website	phuketairportthai.com
Map
HKT Location of Phuket Airport in Thailand
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 09/27 3,000 9,843 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 14,722,010 17.42% Aircraft Movements 94,989 15.84% Freight (tonnes) 41,868 11.67%
Sources: Airport[1]

Phuket International Airport (Thai: ท่าอากาศยานภูเก็ต) (IATA: HKT, ICAO: VTSP) is an international airport serving 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 11.3 million arrivals and departures in 2013, up 18.8 percent from 2012.^[2]

Facilities

Terminals

The airport has two terminals: Terminal 1 is used for international flights, and Terminal 2 for domestic flights. Terminal X for charter flights opened in February 2014.

Due to record-setting passenger numbers, the airport has undergone a 5.14 billion baht expansion and renovation which will be completed in March 2016.^[3] A test flight will use the new terminal on 14 February. Testing will be conducted through May, and the terminal will be officially opened on 1 June. The capacity of the new international terminal is five million passengers per year.^[4] The expansion increases airport capacity to 12.5 million passengers a year from its previous capacity of 6.5 million. A new car park as well as air cargo office are also planned. Terminal construction is expected to start in July 2012.^[5] A rail link from an alternate airport, Krabi, was suggested in 2012, as Phuket is congested and has little room to expand beyond 2015.^[6]

Flightline

The airport is at an elevation of 82 feet (25 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 09/27 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,000 by 45 metres (9,843 ft × 148 ft).^[7]

Airport facts:

Airport service hours	: 06:00- 24:00
Runway	: 09/27, 3,000 metres long and 45 metres wide.
Capacity	: 30 flights per hour
Characteristics	: asphaltic concrete
Durability	: PCN 60/F/C/X/T
Taxiways	: Seven
Apron Area	: 56,461 m²
Aircraft Parking Stand	: Seven parking stands provided for aircraft which are Two parking stands with contact gates. Five remote parking bays.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aeroflot	Moscow–Sheremetyevo	1
Air China	Beijing–Capital	1
AirAsia	Kuala Lumpur-International	1
Asia Atlantic Airlines	Charter: Shenyang	1
Asiana Airlines	Seoul–Incheon	1
Bangkok Airways	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Ko Samui, Pattaya–U–Tapao	2
Beijing Capital Airlines	Hangzhou, Sanya, Xi'an	1
Cathay Dragon	Hong Kong	1
Cebu Pacific	Manila	1
China Eastern Airlines	Chengdu, Hangzhou, Kunming, Nanjing, Ningbo, Xi'an	1
China Southern Airlines	Changsha, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Nanning, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Zhengzhou	1
Chongqing Airlines	Chongqing	1
City Airways	Hong Kong	1
Condor	Seasonal: Frankfurt	1
Eastar Jet	Seoul–Incheon	1
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich	1
Emirates	Dubai–International	1
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi	1
Eurowings operated by SunExpress Deutschland	Cologne/Bonn	1
Finnair	Seasonal: Helsinki	1
Firefly	Penang	1
Hainan Airlines	Beijing–Capital, Shenzhen (begins 17 December 2016) [8]	1
HK Express	Hong Kong	1
Jeju Air	Busan (begins 17 December 2016),[9] Seoul–Incheon	1
Jetstar Airways	Melbourne, Sydney	1
Jetstar Asia Airways	Singapore	1
Jin Air	Seasonal : Seoul–Incheon[10]	1
Juneyao Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong, Zhengzhou	1
Korean Air	Seoul–Incheon	1
Lucky Air	Kunming, Zhengzhou	1
Malaysia Airlines	Kuala Lumpur–International	1
Malindo Air	Kuala Lumpur–International [11]	1
Nok Air	Bangkok–Don Mueang	2
Nok Air	Charter: Chengdu , Nantong	1
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal Charter: Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Mineralnye Vody, Novosibirsk, St Petersburg, Vladivostok	1
Okay Airways	Tianjin [12]	1
Orient Thai Airlines	Charter:Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an, Denpasar	1
Pegas Fly	Charter: Blagoveshchensk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk , Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg	1
Qatar Airways	Doha	1
Rossiya	Seasonal charter: Moscow-Vnukovo	1
S7 Airlines	Charter: Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok	1
Shandong Airlines	Changsha, Jinan, Qingdao, Xiamen[13]	1
Shanghai Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong	1
Shenzhen Airlines	Chengdu, Shenzhen	1
Sichuan Airlines	Chengdu, Chongqing	1
SilkAir	Singapore	1
Spring Airlines	Shanghai–Pudong, Yangzhou	1
Thai AirAsia	Hong Kong, Siem Reap ,[14] Singapore, Wuhan	1
Thai AirAsia	Bangkok–Don Mueang, Chiang Mai, Udon Thani	2
Thai Airways	Frankfurt ,[15] Hong Kong Seasonal: Copenhagen, Stockholm–Arlanda	1
Thai Airways	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi	2
Thai Lion Air	Charter: Chongqing , Nanjing	1
Thai Lion Air	Bangkok–Don Mueang	2
Thai Smile	Bangkok–Don Mueang, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai	2
Thai Vietjet Air	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Rai[16]	2
Thomson Airways	Charter: Birmingham (begins 8 November 2017),[17] Copenhagen (begins 13 December 2016),[18] London–Gatwick, Helsinki (begins 12 December 2016),[18] Manchester , Stockholm–Arlanda	1
Tianjin Airlines	Chongqing, Tianjin	1
Tigerair	Singapore	1
TUIfly Nordic	Charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg–Landvetter, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stockholm–Arlanda	1
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul–Atatürk (begins 18 July 2017)[19]	1

Traffic statistics

Thai Airways Boeing 747-400 taking off from Phuket International Airport

Finnair Airbus A330-300 takeoff from Phuket International Airport

Phuket is a favourite tourist destinations in the region. International passengers mainly come from Asia Pacific and Europe.^[20] 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.^[21]

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 Movement

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[3]	5,909,356	6,950,000	12,859,356	12.8

Aircraft Movement

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[3]	40,762	43,996	84,758	16.1

Freight (Unit :Tonne)

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	5.73

Busiest international routes 2015

Busiest international routes to and from Phuket Airport (2015)^[22]

Rank	Airport	Passengers handled	Change%
1	Singapore	944,253	1.0
2	Hong Kong	724,479	23.3
3	Kuala Lumpur–International	691,912	1.7
4	Shanghai-Pudong	591,724	37.0
5	Seoul-Incheon	472,257	5.9
6	Chengdu	376,831	40.4
7	Dubai	246,379	20.8
8	Chongqing	243,527	2.8
9	Abu Dhabi	200,537	16.9
10	Beijing–Capital	170,259	50.0

Busiest domestic routes 2015

Busiest domestic routes to and from Phuket Airport (2015)^[23]

Rank	Airport	Passengers handled	Change%
1	Bangkok-Don Mueang	2,649,879	33.6
2	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi	2,516,712	6.5
3	Chiang Mai	424,251	33.1
4	Samui	159,581	2.2
5	Udon Thani	106,149	2.6
6	Rayong	36,925	6.2
7	Hat Yai	8,181	4981.4
8	Phitsanulok*	358	35,700.0
9	Hua Hin*	89	new
10	Phuket*	31	new

*Non schedule flight

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.^[24]
• On 31 August 1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 from Hat Yai International Airport crashed into the ocean on final approach, killing all 83 people on board. The investigation determined pilot error as the primary cause.^[25]
• 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 heavily 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 7 crew on board. 89 died and 40 were injured.

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External links

Media related to Phuket International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
Phuket travel guide from Wikivoyage

• Official website
• Current weather for VTSP at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for HKT at Aviation Safety Network