Krabi International Airport

Krabi International Airport[1] (Thai: ท่าอากาศยานกระบี่) (IATA: KBV, ICAO: VTSG), is the international airport serving Krabi, Thailand. It is about 7 kilometres (4 mi) east of the city center. The airport opened on 10 July 1999.[2]:18 In 2017 the airport handled 4,339,599 passenger arrivals and departures.[3] The terminal is designed for three million passengers, a number that has already been exceeded, and expansion will push its capacity to five million.[4]

Krabi International Airport

ท่าอากาศยานกระบี่
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAirports of Thailand PCL
ServesKrabi
LocationNuea Khlong, Krabi, Thailand
Opened10 July 1999 (1999-07-10)
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL82 ft / 25 m
Coordinates08°06′03″N 098°59′05″E
Map
KBV
Location of Krabi Airport Thailand
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 9,850 3,002 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers3,051,969

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
AirAsia Kuala Lumpur–International
AnimawingsSeasonal: Bucharest (begins 5 November 2021)[5]
Azur Air Seasonal charter: St. Petersburg, Moscow-Vnukovo
Bangkok Airways Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Ko Samui
Blue Panorama Seasonal charter: Warsaw-Chopin[6]
China Eastern Airlines Seasonal: Beijing–Capital, Hefei,[7] Nanchang, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xi’an
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
flydubai Dubai–International[8]
Korean Air Charter: Seoul–Incheon[9]
Nok Air Bangkok–Don Mueang
Nordwind Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Pegas Fly Seasonal charter: Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Vladivostok
Qatar Airways Seasonal: Doha
Royal Flight Seasonal charter: Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Yekaterinburg
Scoot Singapore
Shanghai Airlines Seasonal: Shanghai–Pudong
Sichuan Airlines Chengdu, Guangzhou[10]
Seasonal: Chongqing
Thai AirAsia Bangkok–Don Mueang, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Singapore
Thai Airways Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi
Thai Lion Air Bangkok–Don Mueang
Charter: Changsha
Seasonal charter: Changsha, Hefei[11]
Thai Smile Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi
Thai Vietjet Air Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi[12]
TUI Airways Seasonal charter: Copenhagen,[13] Gothenburg,[14] Helsinki,[15] Stockholm–Arlanda[14]

Statistics - total passengers
Year Total
2012 1,190,115
2013 1,668,250
2014 2,700,095
2015 3,689,672
2016 4,079,564
2017 4,339,599
2018 4,193,099

Airport operations
Departures area

On 10 February 2016 the Krabi Airport terminal was plunged into darkness for over six hours (09:00–15:30) due to an electrical power outage. The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) had notified Krabi Airport two days in advance that it would shut down power in the area for maintenance. Airport authorities activated back-up generators, but they did not work. Krabi's airport director stated after the event that management will rent generators in the future to prevent blackouts from happening. With no power for their computers, immigration officials were unable to access immigration databases and were forced to write down details of 2,000 passengers for later vetting. The deputy national police chief in charge of security, Pol Col Srivara Ransibrahmanakul, assured the public that a follow-up check showed that no blacklisted people were allowed into the country during the incident.[16]

Airport upgrade

In 2018, the airport was allocated 6.6 billion baht to build a third terminal, renovate the existing two terminals and car park, and expand aircraft parking bays and associated electrical power infrastructure.[17] In 2019, the Department of Airports announced a project to double the airport's capacity to eight million passengers per year.[18]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. World Wildlife Fund Greater Mekong Program (WWF-GMP); South East Asian-Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training organisation (SEA-START) (December 2008). Climate Change Impacts in Krabi Province, Thailand. A study of environmental, social, and economic challenges (PDF). Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  3. "Krabi Airport: All Traffic for the Year 2015" (PDF). Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  4. Mackey, Michael. "Krabi airport to expand, ease Phuket congestion". TTG Asia. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. "Animawings: Charters from Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca to Phuket and Krabi". boardingpass.ro.
  6. "Itaka Travel Agency".
  7. http://kucinta-setia.blogspot.com/2019/06/china-eastern-launches-hefei-krabi.html
  8. "flydubai adds Yangon / Krabi service from Dec 2019". Routesonline.
  9. Korean Air adds Krabi charters from June 2018
  10. "Sichuan Airlines adds Guangzhou – Krabi from Sep 2017". routesonline. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  11. "Thai Lion Air adds new scheduled charter service to China from late-Sep 2017". routesonline. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  12. Thai Vietjet Air begin seasonal service between Bangkok and Krabi
  13. "Only Flight". tui.dk.
  14. "Only Flight". tui.se.
  15. "Only Flight". tui.fi.
  16. "Power crash a major flaw". Bangkok Post. 13 February 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  17. "Krabi airport upgrade taking off". Bangkok Post. 18 May 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  18. Thodsapol, Hongtong (6 August 2019). "Three airports to be upgraded". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 6 August 2019.

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