Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport

ICAO VTCT19.9523°N 99.8829°E390 m / 1,280 ftLarge airport

Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport (IATA: CEI, ICAO: VTCT) is a large airport in Chiang Rai, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It opened in 1998. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Airports of Thailand. In 2025 it handled 2.0 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1998–1998

1998

OpenedMae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

03/21029° / 209° · LIT

LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

1.4M

1.7M

2.1M

2.5M

2.9M

1.5M

710K

1.7M

1.9M

2.0M

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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Year-round1

SINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Scoot2,116 km1,315 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CEI. From the Wikipedia article “Chiang Rai International Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers2.0M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#573of 3,974 · #172 Asia · #7 TH Longest runway3,000 m9,843 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,196of 29,823 · =340 Asia · =11 TH Elevation390 m1,280 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,050of 43,341 · =965 Asia · #2 TH AgeOpened 19982026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=10,870of 15,079 · =534 Asia · =29 TH Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =6 TH

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels

APPAPP163.050

ATISATIS927.700

RDORDO0.700

TWR .TWR l3oM_Tul2l3o®1.000