Airport Code is HKT. Location,
Located at longitude 98° 18' 45" and latitude 08°
06' 38" and 82 feet above sea level, Phuket
International Airport is 32 km from downtown Phuket
and a few km south of the north end of Phuket
Island.
Phuket airport is
reachable via a good 4 lane highway with only
moderate traffic. The highway runs almost
continuously from the southern end of Phuket at
Rawai Beach to the northern end leaving Phuket
Island via the Sarasin Bridge. Usually you wont have
any traffic problems, but be aware that between 4 pm
(school ends) and 6 pm (people drive home from work)
sometimes traffic disaster strikes.
Phuket Airport
transfer and Phuket Airport Transportation
To Phuket Airport you tour operator will carry
you anyway. If you are not on a Phuket package tour
you can also use a tuk tuk, if the driver wants to
go, this is quite expensive. Since there are only a
handful of taxis in Phuket, its limited to make sure
the tuk tik operators don't have competition, you
will never find a taxi in Phuket, only at the Phuket
Airport arrival there are about 3-4 standing around,
with this taxi's it's about Baht 500,- for a ride
between Phuket Airport and Phuket Town.
If you have only hand
carry stuff when you leave Phuket Island you also
could take a "motor bike" taxi, this is Thaiglish for a
small motorbike, negotiate the price. If you arrive at Phuket
Airport you can take a minibus to almost any
destination on Phuket Island, it's between Baht
100,- for a ride to Phuket Town and upwards
depending where to go,
like Patong, Cap Panwa etc. If you use this minibus service it usually takes
about 10 - 15 minutes to wait. The counter for
Phuket airport minibus service is just before you
leave the arrival hall, don't worry you cant miss,
there are always some employees screaming
taxi.
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There is also a bus
service between Phuket Airport and Phuket Town but
nobody really knows when and where the bus is
leaving from Phuket Airport and where to find the
bus in Phuket Town.
There is no Phuket
Airport hotel, which actually wont matter anyway
since in the vicinity are plenty of Phuket hotels
and Phuket Beach resorts. There are counters at the
arrival hall for Phuket hotel and Phuket Beach
Resort information, if you book a Phuket hotel or
Phuket Beach Resort at the Phuket Airport be aware
that they take commission by asking you for a
relatively high price and they get the commission
every day you stay in a particular Phuket hotel and
Phuket Beach Resort. A way to work around is to book
for one night only, check out from the Phuket Hotel
or Phuket Beach Resort the next day, negotiate a new
and lower price and check in again.
Phuket Car Rental
There are several car
rental company counter at the Phuket airport arrival
hall, those are usually the international car rental
companies like avis, herz etc.
For car rental at
Phuket Island the best is to contact
Pure Car Rental,
they are located in Phuket Town and will pick you up
at Phuket Airport and bring you back to Phuket
Airport.
They have excellent new cars, are very friendly and
know what they are doing. A family business for many
years, they also have a excellent reputation and
VERY important, their prices are around half what
the big international guys are charging, for the
same service. All cars are fully insure via a "first
class insurance".
The airport can handle 24 flight operations per
hour, its open 24 hours. The Runway is 3,000 m long and 45 m wide
Baht 5bn upgrade for Phuket
Airport, May 29. 08
Airports of Thailand Plc
(AoT) is preparing to invest
five billion baht to expand
Phuket International Airport
where congestion is approaching
a critical level.
The expansion will raise the
capacity of the country's second
busiest airport to 11.5 million
passengers a year, six
million international and 5.5
million domestic, from the
current annual limit of 6.5
million, once completed in 2010.
The plan involves a new
international passenger
terminal, the upgrade of the
domestic terminal, construction
of additional taxiways and
parking space for 11 more
aircraft, up from eight
currently.
However, the airport's single
3,000- metre runway will not be
extended, according to
Phuket airport general manager
Wicha Nernlop.
Passenger throughput in
Phuket last year (2007) reached
5.47 million, 22.6% higher
than in the previous year, while
aircraft movements rose 32.3% to
38,386.
Phuket Airport Departure Hall
Phuket Airport Departure Hall 1
Phuket Airport Check in
Phuket Airport Check in counter
Phuket Airport Restaurant
If you are hungry use this
restaurant pictured above, it is upstairs, the food is
excellent and not expensive. Avoid the fast food counter
opposite to the check in counter, there the food is lousy,
the employees totally ignorant and funny, just the stuff
what you want to order is not available today.
Inside the domestic departure area is also a fast food
restaurant from Burger King, their food is also quite good,
at least they serve real hamburger, about 10 mm thick. Not
this flat junk like you get at Macdonald's downtown where
the hamburger is 3 mm thick, actually looks like a small
size tortilla between some bread.
This year, AoT projects a
9.5% rise in passenger
throughput to six million,
with aircraft traffic, both
take-offs and landings,
increasing 7% to 41,000. Between March and October,
Phuket Airport serves 27
scheduled airlines and 11
charter flight operators, with
average daily plane movements of
120.
Congestion at the airport,
especially during the high
season from late
October to April, has been a
subject of complaints by international tourists, mostly from Europe,
who flock to the southern resort island.
TUI Nordic, a leading
Scandinavian tour operator, has said that its guests had to
spend one hour or more to go through airport procedures
during the last winter season,
adding that crowding had become more critical since 2006.Phuket
tourism industry executives have also warned that airport congestion
would spoil the first impression of the island as one of the
region's prime holiday destinations.
Mr Wicha said traffic through the airport would continue to rise
and it would be further expanded so that it could eventually handle
15 million passengers a year, the volume expected in 2020.
A budget for the current expansion has been allocated and design
work was under way, he noted.
He added that actual construction was expected to begin in 2010.
Majority state-owned AoT operates the country's six key airports.
Its shares closed yesterday on the Stock Exchange of Thailand at 56
baht, up 50 satang, in trade worth 74.3 million baht.
By BOONSONG KOSITCHOTETHANA from Bangkok Post, May 29. 08
Actually this congestion problems are
nothing new, they are on since the new Phuket Airport has
opened. One jumbo is enough to let the arriving passengers waiting
at immigration for a hour or more.
The real problem is that the whole
procedure is wrongly organized, the Thai immigration officers
need about 4 times as long to handle 1 passenger as their Singapore
counterpart, since basically they are just doing the same as the
Singaporeans it must be a organization problem.
Actually even at the new
Yangon or Rangoon airport in
Myanmar it goes faster.
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