THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Thailand

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

THAILAND DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International (BKK)

536

97,233

28.3 %

(-32.5) %

2

Bangkok Don Muang (DMK)

476

59,913

17.4 %

12.1 %

3

Phuket International (HKT)

213

42,641

12.4 %

(-20.4) %

4

Chiang Mai International (CNX)

298

37,841

11.0 %

(-19.2) %

5

Koh Samui (USM)

184

18,300

5.3 %

7.3 %

6

Hat Yai (HDY)

91

18,172

5.3 %

(-26.9) %

7

Udon Thani (UTH)

101

12,814

3.7 %

(-5.9) %

8

Chiang Rai (CEI)

44

9,087

2.6 %

(-22.6) %

9

Ubon Ratchathni Muang Ubon (UBP)

41

6,911

2.0 %

(-16.8) %

10

Khon Kaen (KKC)

27

6,273

1.8 %

14.9 %

(Others)

455

34,624

10.1 %

(-22.0) %

TOTAL

2,466

343,809

-

(-18.8) %

HOME AIRPORT: THAILAND INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International (BKK)

1,779

464,765

85.9 %

(-5.0) %

2

Phuket International (HKT)

241

48,646

9.0 %

3.5 %

3

Bangkok Don Muang (DMK)

50

9,000

1.7 %

New Entrant

4

Chiang Mai International (CNX)

43

6,161

1.1 %

32.2 %

5

Koh Samui (USM)

44

4,616

0.9 %

76.7 %

6

Hat Yai (HDY)

19

2,972

0.5 %

(-20.5) %

7

Krabi (KBV)

15

2,700

0.5 %

7.1 %

8

Lampang (LPT)

10

1,400

0.3 %

0.0 %

9

Surat Thani (URT)

3

540

0.1 %

New Entrant

10

Chiang Rai (CEI)

3

150

0.0 %

New Entrant

(Others)

-

-

TOTAL

2,207

540,950

-

(-1.9) %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: THAILAND INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Singapore Changi (SIN)

233

52,766

9.8 %

2.7 %

2

Hong Kong International (HKG)

162

47,653

8.8 %

1.7 %

3

Kuala Lumpur International (KUL)

178

35,974

6.7 %

0.4 %

4

Seoul Incheon (ICN)

120

31,226

5.8 %

24.2 %

5

Tokyo Narita (NRT)

63

19,642

3.6 %

3.2 %

6

Shanghai Pu Dong (PVG)

79

16,975

3.1 %

29.2 %

7

Taipei Taoyuan (TPE)

49

15,309

2.8 %

(-11.0) %

8

Dubai International (DXB)

35

13,258

2.5 %

(-0.5) %

9

Ho Chi Minh City Tan Son Nhat International (SGN)

48

12,880

2.4 %

(-2.6) %

10

Guangzhou Baiyun (CAN)

55

12,598

2.3 %

3.2 %

(Others)

1,185

282,669

52.3 %

(-7.0) %

TOTAL

2,207

540,950

-

(-1.9) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…