Pai Airport

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Pai Airport

ท่าอากาศยานปาย
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Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator Department of Airports / Ministry of Natural Resources And Environment
Serves Pai, Mae Hong Son province, Thailand
Opened1945;79 years ago (1945)
Coordinates 19°22′22″N098°26′19″E / 19.37278°N 98.43861°E / 19.37278; 98.43861
Website minisite.airports.go.th/pai
Map
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PYY
Location of airport in Thailand
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
01/193,2801,000Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers1,032

Pai Airport [lower-alpha 1] ( IATA : PYY, ICAO : VTCI) is an airport serving Pai, a town in Mae Hong Son province of northern Thailand. Originally constructed during World War II by the Japanese Imperial Army, the airport was deserted after the end of the war and was developed by the province in 1945 for civil aviation.

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Located on a 72.3-rai area around a kilometre away from Mueang Mae Hong Son, the capital district of the province, the airport has one runway (23 metres wide, 1,000 metres long) [1]

In early 2017, an expansion of the airport was considered by the government to increase tourism, but was ultimately denied after opposition from locals. [2]

Airlines and destinations

Since Kan Air discontinued all flights in April 2017, there has been no scheduled commercial airline service to Pai.

In May 2018, a new carrier called Wisdom Airways announced plans to fly from Pai to Chiang Mai. A year later, the airline stopped all flights when it ceased all operations in 2019.

Notes

  1. Thai: ท่าอากาศยานปาย

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References

  1. "กรมการบินพลเรือน". minisite.aviation.go.th. Archived from the original on 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  2. "DOA denies expansion at Pai airport". Bangkok Post.