Mae Sot Airport

Mae Sot Airport (Thai: ท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด) (IATA: MAQ, ICAO: VTPM) is an international airport serving Mae Sot, a town in Tak Province in 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).

Mae Sot International Airport

ท่าอากาศยานนานาชาติแม่สอด
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorDepartment of Airports
ServesMae Sot, Tak, Thailand
Myawaddy, Kayin, Myanmar
LocationMae Sot, Tak, Thailand
Elevation AMSL690 ft / 210 m
Coordinates16°41′59″N 098°32′42″E
Websitemaesotairport.com
Map
MAQ
Location of airport in Thailand
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 1,500 4,921 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers162,111
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

A new passenger terminal opened on April 4, 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 is 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]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Bangkok AirwaysBangkok–Suvarnabhumi[6]
Nok AirBangkok–Don Mueang, Chiang Mai[7]

References
  1. Airport information for VTPM at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. Airport information for MAQ at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. "Mae Sot International to open by end 2018". 3. 2018-09-03. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
  4. โครงการปรับปรุงขยายท่าอากาศยานแม่สอด (in Thai)
  5. ไทยแอร์เอเชียจี้รัฐขยายสนามบินเมืองรอง. ครอบครัวข่าว 3 (in Thai). 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  6. Liu, Jim. "Bangkok Airways schedules new domestic routes in W20". Routesonline.
  7. Liu, Jim. "Nok Air resumes Chiang Mai – Mae Sot service from late-March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 24 February 2020.


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