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Suvarnabhumi International Airport (IATA: BKK, ICAO: VTBS) [4] [5] is the main international airport serving Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. [6] [7] Located mostly in Racha Thewa subdistrict, Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan province, it covers an area of 3,240 ha (32.4 km 2; 8,000 acres), making it one of the biggest international airports in Southeast Asia and a regional hub for aviation.
Bangkok International Airport may refer to one of the following airports serving Bangkok, Thailand: Suvarnabhumi Airport, the city's main international airport, referred to as New Bangkok International Airport during its construction; Don Mueang International Airport, officially known as Bangkok International Airport until 2006
The opening of Terminal 2 has raised the airport's capacity to 30 million passengers per year. [28] Terminal 3, the old domestic terminal, has been abandoned since 2011. The new Terminal 3 will have a capacity of 20 million passengers yearly and is scheduled to be completed by 2029. [23]
Eight years later, it was upgraded from a division to a department. They renovated the Don Mueang Airport to be an international airport and changed the official name to "Bangkok Airport" on June 21, 1955. Subsequently, the National Assembly enacted the Act on Airports of Thailand, B.E. 2522, requiring the establishment of an airport authority.
Map of Thailand. This is a list of airports in Thailand.There are 39 commercial service airports in Thailand, 10 of which are international airports. [1] The Department of Airports (DOA) managed 29 airports, while 7 airports are managed by Airports of Thailand (AOT), 3 airports are managed by Bangkok Airways (BA), and 1 airport is managed by the Royal Thai Navy (RTNV). [2]
It opened on 28 September 2023 (the airport’s 17th anniversary) as part of the partial opening of Suvarnabhumi Airport Midfield Satellite Concourse 1 (SAT-1) and connects the main terminal with SAT-1. It is the only airport people mover system in Thailand and is 1 km in length. [1]
The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and refers to the golden kingdom hypothesised to have been located somewhere in Southeast Asia. The airport has the world's tallest free-standing control tower (132.2 metres), and the world's fourth largest single-building airport terminal (563,000 square metres).
Bangkok, [a] officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon [b] and colloquially as Krung Thep, [c] is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 9.0 million as of 2021, 13% of the country's population.