Mae Sot Airport

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Mae Sot Airport

ท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด
Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator Department of Airports
Serves
LocationTha Sai Luat, Mae Sot, Tak, Thailand
Opened1930;94 years ago (1930)
Elevation  AMSL 210 m / 690 ft
Coordinates 16°41′59″N098°32′42″E / 16.69972°N 98.54500°E / 16.69972; 98.54500
Website www.maesotairport.com
Maps
Mae Sot Airport
Thailand adm location map.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
MAQ/VTPM
Location of airport in Thailand
Mae Sot Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
09/271,5004,921 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers91,728 Increase2.svg88.96%
Aircraft movements1,126 Increase2.svg65.10%
Freight (tonnes)-
Source: DAFIF [1] [2]

Mae Sot Airport( IATA : MAQ, ICAO : VTPM) is in Tha Sai Luat subdistrict, Mae Sot district, Tak province in northern Thailand. Currently, it is connected to two domestic destinations. Nok Air started the first international commercial operation from Mae Sot to Yangon in October 2017, but service to Yangon stopped in January 2018. Wisdom Airways started with a 12-seater Cessna Grand Caravan a bi-weekly return flight to Chiang Mai International Airport from Mae Sot (Mondays and Saturdays). [3]

Contents

A new passenger terminal opened on 4 April 2019. It will serve 1.7 million passengers / year, instead of 170,000 with the old terminal. [4]

The expansion of Mae Sot's runway is to be complete in 2019. [5] Thai AirAsia will add the Mae Sot destination soon after Mae Sot's runway expansion is complete and suitable for its Airbus A320 aircraft. [6]

In April 2024, the airport was used to evacuate Myanmar military officials and their families, following a request from Myanmar trying to extract 617 soldiers and their families. [7]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Nok Air Bangkok–Don Mueang [8]

Notes

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    References

    1. ↑ "Airport information for VTPM". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
    2. ↑ Airport information for MAQ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF  (effective October 2006).
    3. ↑ "Mae Sot Airport". domesticflightsthailand.com. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
    4. ↑ "Mae Sot International to open by end 2018". 3. 2018-09-03. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
    5. ↑ โครงการปรับปรุงขยายท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด (in Thai)
    6. ↑ ไทยแอร์เอเชียจี้รัฐขยายสนามบินเมืองรอง. ครอบครัวข่าว 3 (in Thai). 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
    7. ↑ Bangprapa, Mongkol; Tangsathaporn, Poramet (9 April 2024). "Myanmar rescue flights okayed". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
    8. ↑ "How to get to and from: Mae Sot". Travel Fish. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
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