Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport

Introduction

Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) is the main airport in Bangkok. Located about 25 kilometres east of downton Bangkok, it opened in september 2006 for most domestic and all international flights. It is one of the busiest airports in Asia and has connections to many intercontinental destinations, as well as hundreds of flights in Asia.

For more information about other airports throughout the world, also see the list of airports.

Getting there and away

• The 28.6-kilometre-long Suvarnabhumi Airport Link will open in August 2010. The airport express, informally known as the Pink Line and operated jointly with SRT's planned Red Line commuter service, will connect with the BTS Sukhumvit Line (Green Line, Route 1) and MRT Blue Line at Phaya Thai and Phetchaburi stations respectively, offering airport-bound passengers a fast 15-minute limited stop journey from the city.
• Meanwhile, SRT provides a suburban commuter train service between Hua Takhe (the nearest station to Suvarnabhumi on the East line) and the northern suburban city of Rangsit via downtown Bangkok and the old Don Muang Airport (DMK). The train also connects with BTS and MRT at Phaya Thai and Phetchaburi stations respectively. Passengers pay a flat fare of Bt30. The service will be stopped when the Airport Express Link is completed.
• At the airport, go downstairs and outside. Buy a ticket for the tourist bus (operated by Airport Express), to the Khao San Road. Ticket cost: 150 Bahts. Children free.
• The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority operates regular bus routes from the airport to Bangkok. To catch the regular bus, you need to take a free shuttle at the 2nd floor of the airport to the domestic airport. Ticket cost: 34 Bahts. Children free.
• Long distance bus services include regular buses to both Pattaya and Nong Khai.
• Taxi from airport - Don't hire the taxis inside the airport. They are more expensive than the ones outside. Go down stairs and outside. Ask the taxi driver to turn on the meter, or else it will cost more. The taxi cost to the Khao San Road is less than 500 Bahts. There is also a limousine service.

Getting around

As it's only 1 terminal, you can get around pretty easily by foot.

Airlines, Destinations and Terminals

Although it has only 1 terminal, it's the 4th largest in the world, after Dubai, Beijing and Hong Kong. For more information about the airlines also see the List of Airlines and the list of budget airlines.

• Aeroflot - Moscow-Sheremetyevo
• Aerosvit Airlines - Kiev-Boryspil
• AirAsia - Kuala Lumpur
• Air Astana - Almaty
• Air Austral - Saint-Denis de la Réunion
• Air Bagan - Yangon
• Air Berlin - Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Munich
• Air China - Beijing-Capital, Chongqing
• Air France - Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
• Air-India Express - Kolkata
• Air Koryo - Pyongyang
• Air Macau - Macau
• Air Madagascar - Antananarivo, Guangzhou
• All Nippon Airways - Toyko-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita
• Asiana Airlines - Seoul-Incheon
• Austrian Airlines - Vienna
• Bangkok Airways - Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Lampang, Luang Prabang, Malé, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Siem Reap, Sukhothai, Trat, Yangon
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines - Dhaka
• Bismillah Airlines - Dhaka
• Blue Panorama Airlines - Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
• British Airways - London-Heathrow, Sydney
• Business Air - Seoul-Incheon
• Cathay Pacific Airways - Colombo, Delhi, Hong Kong, Karachi, Mumbai, Singapore
• Cebu Pacific - Clark, Manila
• China Airlines - Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Kaoshiung, Taipei-Taoyuan
• China Eastern Airlines - Kunming, Shanghai-Pudong
• China Southern Airlines - Guangzhou, Shantou
• Delta Air Lines - Tokyo-Narita
• Drukair - Bagdogra, Dhaka, Gaya, Kolkata, Paro
• EgyptAir - Cairo, Guangzhou
• El Al - Tel Aviv
• Emirates - Christchurch, Dubai, Hong Kong, Sydney
• Ethiopian Airlines - Addis Ababa, Guangzhou, Hong Kong
• Etihad Airways - Abu Dhabi
• EVA Air - Amsterdam, London-Heathrow, Taipei-Taoyuan, Vienna
• Finnair - Helsinki
• Garuda Indonesia - Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta
• GMG Airlines - Dhaka
• Gulf Air - Bahrain
• Hainan Airlines - Haikou, Nanning
• Happy Air - Phuket, Luang Prabang, Nan
• Hong Kong Airlines - Hong Kong
• Indian Airlines - Delhi, Gaya, Kolkata, Mumbai
• Indonesia AirAsia - Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta
• Iran Air - Tehran-Imam Khomeini
• Israir Airlines -Tel Aviv
• Japan Airlines - Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Toyko-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita
• Jeju Air - Seoul-Incheon
• Jet Airways - Delhi, Gaya, Kolkata, Mumbai, Varanasi
• Jetstar Airways - Melbourne
• Jetstar Asia Airways - Singapore
• Jin Air - Seoul-Incheon
• Kampuchea Airlines - Phnom Penh
• Kenya Airways - Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nairobi
• Kingfisher Airlines - Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai
• KLM - Amsterdam, Taipei-Taoyuan
• Korean Air - Busan, Seoul-Incheon
• Kuwait Airways - Kuwait, Manila
• Lao Airlines - Luang Prabang, Pakse, Savannakhet, Vientiane
• Lufthansa - Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur
• Mahan Air - Mashhad, Tehran-Imam Khomeini
• Malaysia Airlines - Kuala Lumpur
• Myanmar Airways International - Yangon
• Nepal Airlines - Kathmandu
• Oman Air - Muscat
• Orient Thai Airlines - Hong Kong, Nakhon Phanom
• Pakistan International Airlines - Hong Kong, Islamabad, Lahore
• Philippine Airlines - Manila
• PMTair - Phnom Penh
• Qantas Airways - London-Heathrow, Sydney
• Qatar Airways - Doha, Hanoi
• Royal Brunei Airlines - Bandar Seri Begawan
• Royal Jordanian - Amman, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur
• Royal Phnom Penh Airways -Phnom Penh
• S7 Airlines - Irkutsk, Novosibirsk
• Scandinavian Airlines - Copenhagen
• Shanghai Airlines - Chongqing, Shanghai-Pudong
• Shenzhen Airlines - Shenzhen
• Singapore Airlines - Singapore
• SriLankan Airlines - Beijing-Capital, Colombo, Hong Kong, Shanghai-Pudong
• Swiss International Air Lines - Zürich
• Thai AirAsia - Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Denpasar/Bali, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Hat Yai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Krabi, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Narathiwat, Penang, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Shenzhen, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Singapore, Surat Thani, Taipei-Taoyuan, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani, Yangon
• Thai Airways International - Athens, Auckland, Bangalore, Beijing-Capital, Brisbane, Busan, Chengdu, Chennai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Colombo, Copenhagen, Delhi, Denpasar/Bali, Dhaka, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Gaya, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Hat Yai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Johannesburg, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khon Kaen, Koh Samui, Kolkata, Krabi, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Lahore, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Oslo-Gardermoen, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Penang, Perth, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Rome-Fiumicino, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sydney, Surat thani, Taipei-Taoyuan, Toyko-Haneda, Tokyo-Narita, Varanasi, Vientiane, Xiamen, Yangon, Zürich
• Tiger Airways - Singapore
• Transaero - Moscow-Domodedovo, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg
• Turkish Airlines - Istanbul-Atatürk
• Turkmenistan Airlines - Ashgabat
• Uni Air - Kaohsiung
• United Airlines - Tokyo-Narita
• Ural Airlines - Yekaterinburg
• Uzbekistan Airways - Tashkent
• Vietnam Airlines - Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
• Xpressair - Kathmandu

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