Mae Sot Airport Explained

Nativename:Thai: ท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด
Iata:MAQ
Icao:VTPM
Type:Public
Operator:Department of Airports
City-Served:Tak province
Location:Tha Sai Luat, Mae Sot district, Tak province, Thailand
Elevation-F:690
Elevation-M:210
Metric-Elev:yes
Coordinates:16.6997°N 98.545°W
Mapframe:yes
Pushpin Map:Thailand
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Thailand
Pushpin Label:MAQ/VTPM
Pushpin Label Position:right
R1-Number:09/27
R1-Length-F:4,921
R1-Length-M:1,500
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Metric-Rwy:yes
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:91,728 88.96%
Stat2-Header:Aircraft movements
Stat2-Data:1,126 65.10%
Stat3-Header:Cargo (tonnes)
Stat3-Data:-
Stat-Year:2023
Footnotes:Source: DAFIF[1]

Mae Sot Airport 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).[2]

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.[3]

The expansion of Mae Sot's runway was scheduled to be complete in 2019.[4] Thai AirAsia will add the Mae Sot destination soon after Mae Sot's runway expansion is complete and suitable for its Airbus A320 aircraft.[5]

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.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: usurped. Airport information for VTPM. https://web.archive.org/web/20190305143444/http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?airport=VTPM. 2019-03-05. World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  2. Web site: Mae Sot Airport . 2023-12-20 . domesticflightsthailand.com . en.
  3. News: Mae Sot International to open by end 2018 . 3 . 2018-09-03. 2019-05-04.
  4. https://www.airports.go.th/th/content/328/505.html โครงการปรับปรุงขยายท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด
  5. Web site: http://www.krobkruakao.com/economy/58580 . th:ไทยแอร์เอเชียจี้รัฐขยายสนามบินเมืองรอง . ครอบครัวข่าว 3 . 2017-12-12. 2017-12-21. th.
  6. News: Bangprapa . Mongkol . Tangsathaporn . Poramet . 9 April 2024 . Myanmar rescue flights okayed . 21 May 2024 . Bangkok Post . en.