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]
Mae Sot Airport ท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Department of Airports | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tak province | ||||||||||
| Location | Tha Sai Luat, Mae Sot district, Tak province, Thailand | ||||||||||
| Opened | 1930 | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 210 m / 690 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 16°41′59″N 098°32′42″E / 16.69972°N 98.54500°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
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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 was scheduled 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 to extract 617 soldiers and their families.[7]
Airlines and destinations
edit| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Nok Air | Bangkok–Don Mueang[8] |
| Thai Summer Airways | Pattaya |
References
edit- ^ "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. - ^ Airport information for MAQ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "Mae Sot Airport". domesticflightsthailand.com. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
- ^ "Mae Sot International to open by end 2018". 3. 2018-09-03. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
- ^ โครงการปรับปรุงขยายท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด (in Thai)
- ^ ไทยแอร์เอเชียจี้รัฐขยายสนามบินเมืองรอง. ครอบครัวข่าว 3 (in Thai). 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
- ^ Bangprapa, Mongkol; Tangsathaporn, Poramet (9 April 2024). "Myanmar rescue flights okayed". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ "How to get to and from: Mae Sot". Travel Fish. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
External links
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Mae Sot travel guide from Wikivoyage- Current weather for VTPM at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for MAQ at Aviation Safety Network
