Thailand’s Koh Phangan Airport – The abandoned airport project in the Gulf of Thailand
From James Clark’s excellent futuresoutheastasia.com
Ko Phangan Airport is an abandoned airport project on Ko Pha-ngan, Surat Thani Province, Thailand.
The airport began construction in 2012 and was being built by Kan Air (a domestic Thai airline based at Chiang Mai International Airport). The airport plan included a 1,100 runway and a passenger terminal capable of handling 1,000 passengers per day. The runway would have been long enough for turboprop aircraft such as the ATR 72 variants.
Kan Air were planning to fly from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport to Koh Phangan. It was also reported that they would operate flights from Ko Samui and Ko Tao (though there is no airport on Ko Tao).
The project was suspended in 2015 after it was discovered that the construction had encroached on national park land.
Kan Air suspended operations in 2017, and there have been no reports of the airport project being revived.
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