one of beautiful thailand island – koh phangan, it’s a lovely island in thailand, famous to its full moon parties held on haad rin beach. happily, this island can soon have its own airport.
these days, the island of koh phangan is merely accessible by boat fast for 30 to 45 minutes from koh samui. meanwhile, if visitors begin traveling from surat thani, the travel time can possibly be up to 2. 5 hours by ferry. thus, the construction as to actually the airport can facilitate boost the quantity of tourist visits of this lovely island. particularly throughout the peak holiday, ie december to march, the island will attract as numerous as 30, 000 tourists from along the world.
koh phangan airport construction has begun and is anticipated that should be completed in late 2013. this airport will certainly be upon the east side of koh phangan. its runway is merely 1, 100 feet long or merely half the length as to actually the koh samui airport runway possesses a length of 2060 meters.
construction as to actually the airport doesn’t need environmental impact assessment report for relatively short runway, aforementioned somphong sooksanguan, president kan air, a regional airline bangkok that cost approximately rp220 million to build an airstrip in koh phangan.
additionally towards koh phangan, even this airline can introduce flights towards the islands around koh phangan, koh samui as south and koh tao towards the north. the airline additionally can offer flights of eighty minutes is provided 3 times on a daily basis to serve routes to and direct from airport don muang, bangkok, as reported by cnngo, friday ( 19/10/2012 ).
founded in 2010, kan air operates merely one cessna planes, consisting of 12 seats route chiang mai, nan, pai, mae hong son, phitsanulok and khon kaen. the airline plans to hire 2 50-seat capability aircraft to serve routes between bangkok and koh phangan.