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Phuket airport forecasts 16m passengers in 2025
Bangkok Post
|October 10, 2025
Phuket International Airport expects to welcome more than 16 million passengers this year, driven by rising international arrivals and new direct flight routes from Europe and Asia, said airport director Monchai Tanode.
He said during China's Golden Week from Oct 1-8, passenger traffic rose by 60% compared with last year. The airport handled 228 flights, averaging 29 a day, with 34,375 passengers or 4,297 per day about 65% of pre-Covid figures.
The top ten visitor nationalities were Russian, Chinese, Indian, South Korean, Australian, German, British, Israeli, Saudi Arabian and Malaysian.
Mr Monchai said Phuket is still in a low season and the airport, on average, handles between 280-300 flights a day.
This story is from the October 10, 2025 edition of Bangkok Post.
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