URT

Surat Thani Airport

ICAO VTSB9.1326°N 99.1356°E6 m / 20 ftMedium airport
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Surat Thani Airport (IATA: URT, ICAO: VTSB) is a medium airport in Surat Thani, Surat Thani Province, Thailand. It opened on 15 Apr 1981. It has one runway, 3,000 m (9,843 ft) long, asphalt. In 2020 it handled 1.1 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1981–1998
15 APR 1981
OpenedSurat Thani Airport opens.
11 DEC 1998
DisasterThai Airways International Flight 261.101 killed
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
04/22044° / 224° · LIT
LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2009–2020
394K
506K
595K
816K
1.1M
1.3M
1.9M
2.0M
2.2M
2.2M
1.9M
1.1M
091011121314151617181920

Routes

4 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsThai AirAsia 3EZY Airlines 1Nok Air 1Thai Lion Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from URT. From the Wikipedia article “Surat Thani International Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers1.1M (2020)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#792of 3,974 · #240 Asia · #13 THLongest 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 THElevation6 m20 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,220of 43,341 · =2,914 Asia · =66 THAgeOpened 19812026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=8,235of 15,079 · =401 Asia · #23 THRunways11 · 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

5 channels
APPAPP129.600
ATISATIS33.800
GNDGND121.900
RDORDO657.700
TWRTWR122.700