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Samui International Airport

ท่าอากาศยานสมุย
Samui International Airport; ท่าอากาศยานสมุย
	IATA: USM; ICAO: VTSM;
Summary
Airport type	Private
Owner/Operator	Bangkok Airways
Serves	Ko Samui
Location	Bo Phut, Ko Samui, Surat Thani, Thailand
Opened	25 April 1989; 35 years ago
Operating base for	Bangkok Airways
Elevation AMSL	64 ft / 20 m
Coordinates	09°32′52″N 100°03′44″E / 9.54778°N 100.06222°E
Maps
	USM/VTSM Location of airport in Thailand
Runways
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft movements
Aircraft movements	19,467
Total passengers	2,051,289

Samui International Airport (Thai: ท่าอากาศยานสมุย) (IATA: USM, ICAO: VTSM), also known as Ko Samui Airport or Koh Samui Airport, is a privately owned international airport on the island of Ko Samui (Koh Samui) in Thailand. It is located in the island’s Bo Phut subdistrict. The airport is roughly 2 km north of the main city and largest resort centre on the island, Chaweng. It was built by Bangkok Airways. Construction began in 1982 and the airport was officially opened in April 1989.^[1]

Facilities

Samui Airport has a unique, open-air design, with the indoor areas being the gift shop, ticket office, toilets, and VIP lounge area. It is also the country's seventh-busiest airport, handling more than a million passengers annually. The airport has terminals (domestic and international), plus a building for check-in and baggage claim. The international terminal is about 50 metres north of the domestic terminal. Samui Airport is near the Big Buddha Pier, where ferries depart for Ko Pha-ngan. High-speed ferries to Ko Tao and Chumphon depart from the Maenam Beach Pier, approximately 6 km northwest of the airport.

Domestic departure entrance
Waiting area of the domestic terminal
Open-space waiting area of the domestic terminal
Boarding gate of the domestic terminal
Airside of the arrival terminal

Airlines and destinations

Since the airport is privately owned by Bangkok Airways, it has a near-monopoly on flights.^[2] Between 2008 and 2018, Thai Airways International also operated two daily flights from Bangkok.^[2] Scoot has also started a Singapore-Koh Samui route on the Embraer E190 jet starting from 13 May 2024.

Airlines	Destinations
Bangkok Airways	Bangkok–Don Mueang,^[3] Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Chengdu–Tianfu, Chiang Mai, Hong Kong,^[4] Krabi, Pattaya, Phuket, Singapore^[5]
Scoot	Singapore^[6]
Tibet Airlines	Xi'an^[7]

Statistics

Year	Flights	Arriving passengers	Departing passengers	Total passengers
2005^[8]	15,818	584,023	621,313	1,205,336
2006^[9]	18,762	689,063	711,196	1,400,259
2007^[10]	15,783	577,600	611,554	1,189,154
2008^[11]	17,707	673,851	691,283	1,365,439
2015^[12]		1,024,373
2019	14,325			1,208,882
Source: Thailand's Department of Civil Aviation & C9 Hotel Works

Accidents and incidents

On 21 November 1990, Bangkok Airways Flight 125, a Bombardier Dash 8, crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain and high winds. All 38 people on board were killed.^[13]^[14]
On 4 August 2009, Bangkok Airways Flight 266, an ATR 72 arriving from Krabi skidded off the runway, killing a captain.^[15]