Samui International Airport ( th, ท่าอากาศยานสมุย) , 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, also often locally shortened to Samui; th, เกาะสมุย, ) is an island off the east coast of Thailand. Geographically in the Chumphon Archipelago, it is part of Surat Thani Province, though as of 2012, Ko ...

(Koh Samui) in

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. 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 Public Company Limited ( th, บางกอกแอร์เวย์ส) is a regional airline based in Bangkok, Thailand. It operates scheduled services to destinations in Thailand, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, M ...

. Construction began in 1982 and the airport was officially opened in April 1989. 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 two terminals (domestic and international). The international terminal is about 50 metres north of the domestic terminal. Samui Airport is near the Big Buddha Pier where ferries depart to Ko Pha-ngan. High speed ferries to Ko Tao and

Chumphon Chumphon ( th, ชุมพร, ) 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 2005 it had a population o ...

depart from the Maenam Beach Pier, approximately 6 km northwest of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Accidents and incidents

*On 21 November 1990,

Bangkok Airways Flight 125 Bangkok Airways Flight 125 was a scheduled domestic flight from Don Mueang International Airport to Koh Samui Airport. On 21 November 1990 the Dash 8-100 operating the flight crashed on approach to Koh Samui Airport during bad weather, southw ...

, 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 unmanne ...

, an

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between

Krabi Krabi ( th, กระบี่, ) is the main town in the province of Krabi (''thesaban mueang'') on the west coast of southern Thailand at the mouth of the Krabi River where it empties in Phang Nga Bay. As of 2020, the town had a population of ...

and

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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