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Suvarnabhumi Airport

Bangkok Metropolitan Region

  • IATABKK
  • ICAOVTBS
629 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Bangkok Metropolitan Region
Operator
Airports of Thailand
Owner
Not recorded
Opened
28 September 2006
Elevation
5 ft (2 m)
Runways
3 (longest 4,000 m)
Airlines based here
K-Mile Air, Thai Airways International

About the airport

Suvarnabhumi Airport (IATA: BKK, ICAO: VTBS) is the main international airport serving Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. It is one of two airports serving Bangkok, the other being Don Mueang International Airport (DMK). Located mostly in Racha Thewa commune, Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan province, it covers an area of 3,520 ha (35.2 km2; 8,700 acres), making it one of the biggest international airports in Southeast Asia, tenth biggest in the world and a regional hub for aviation. It has an Airport Rail Link, an Automated People Mover as well as being located close to Motorway 7. Tentatively named Nong Nguhao before changing to Suvarnabhumi—a toponym that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist text—Suvarnabhumi is the busiest in the country, ninth busiest airport in Asia, and 20th busiest airport in the world, handling 62,234,693 passengers in 2024. As of 2025, it is served by the most airlines in the world, with 113 airlines operating from the airport. The airport serves as a primary hub for Thai Airways International and K-Mile Air, and an operating base for Bangkok Airways, Thai VietJet Air and Thai AirAsia. It serves as…

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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