Hat Yai International Airport

Airport in southern Thailand

HDY/VTSS

Location of airport in Thailand

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
08/26	10,007	3,150	Asphalt concrete

Statistics (2023)

Total passengers	5,122,124 8.01%
International passengers	248,476 139.76%
Domestic passengers	2,873,648 1.14%
Aircraft movements	20,230 4.01%
Freight (tonnes)	3,179 15.05%

Source: Airports of Thailand^[1]

Hat Yai International Airport (IATA: HDY, ICAO: VTSS) is in Khlong La subdistrict, Khlong Hoi Khong district, Songkhla province in southern Thailand, near the city of Hat Yai. It is under the management of Airports of Thailand, PLC (AOT). It serves more than 3 million passengers per year, 12,000 flights and 3,000 tons of cargo, making it the fifth busiest airport in the country by passenger traffic in 2023.

Overview

At longitude 100° 23' 55" E and latitude 06° 55' 46" N, 28 m above sea level, the airport is 9 km (6 mi) east of downtown Hat Yai and 43 km east of Songkhla city. Highway 4135 (Sanambin Panij Road) links to the airport. Its service hours are 06:00–24:00. The runway can handle 30 flights per hour and its durability is rated at PCN 60/F/C/X/T. There are seven taxiways and an apron area of 56,461 m². Website name - hatyai.airportthai.co.th

Statistics

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Annual passenger traffic at HDY airport. See Wikidata query.

Expansion

Expansion plans are in the works, as the airport is designed for 2.5 million passengers, and was already seeing 4.5 million passengers in 2018. The upgrade will expand the airport's capacity to serve over 10 million passengers by 2030.^[2]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Bangkok Airways	Phuket
Nok Air	Bangkok–Don Mueang
Scoot	Singapore
Thai AirAsia	Bangkok–Don Mueang, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi (resumes 1 July 2024), Chiang Mai, Kuala Lumpur–International,^[3] Singapore
Thai Airways International	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi Seasonal Charter: Medina
Thai Lion Air	Bangkok–Don Mueang, Chengdu–Tianfu, Udon Thani
Thai VietJet Air	Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi

Accidents and incidents

During the 2005 Songkhla bombings, a bomb planted at the departure lounge by Pattani separatists exploded on 3 April 2005, killing two passengers and injuring ten.^[4]

Gallery

Entrance of airport
Hat Yai International Airport Domestic Terminal
Arrival hall
Gate 4
Terminal bay
Thai AirAsia Airbus A320 at Hat Yai International Airport

Notes

References

^ "Air Transport Statistic". Airports of Thailand. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
^ "AoT plans Hat Yai expansion". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
^ Töre, Özgür. "AirAsia Resumes Flights from Malaysia to Thailand". ftnNews. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
^ สํานักข่าวไทย TNAMCOT (29 February 2016). "ข่าวดังข้ามเวลา ตอน "ล่า…ระเบิดเมือง" [คลิปเต็มรายการ]". Archived from the original on 2021-12-12 – via YouTube.