Hua Hin Airport Explained

Nativename:Thai: ท่าอากาศยานหัวหิน
Iata:HHQ
Icao:VTPH
Type:Public
Operator:Department of Airports
Location:Hua Hin, Hua Hin district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province and Cha-am, Cha-am district, Phetchaburi province, Thailand
Elevation-F:62
Elevation-M:19
Metric-Elev:yes
Coordinates:12.6361°N 99.9514°W
Mapframe:yes
Pushpin Map:Thailand
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Thailand
Pushpin Label:HHQ/VTPH
Pushpin Label Position:right
R1-Number:16/34
R1-Length-F:6,890
R1-Length-M:2,100
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Metric-Rwy:yes
Stat1-Header:Passengers
Stat1-Data:60,935 86.88%
Stat2-Header:Aircraft movements
Stat2-Data:396 30.26%
Stat3-Header:Cargo (tonnes)
Stat3-Data:-
Stat-Year:2023
Footnotes:Sources: Department of Airports

Hua Hin Airport is on the provincial border between Hua Hin subdistrict, Hua Hin district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province and Cha-am subdistrict, Cha-am district, Phetchaburi province in Southern Thailand.[1]

Airport upgrade

In August 2018 the Department of Airports announced that it will spend 3.5 billion baht to upgrade Hua Hin Airport over the next five years. The number of travellers using the airport is expected to increase by tenfold, to three million a year, in that timeframe. The upgrade is part of the "Riviera Thailand" and Southern Economic Corridor projects. The work at the airport will take four to five years. It includes enlarging the existing passenger terminal, building a second one, expanding hangar space, and widening the runway from 35[2] to 45 metres.[3] The runways RESA are below ICAOs recommendation.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: HHQ-Airport . Great Circle Mapper . 2019-01-14.
  2. Web site: Hua Hin . https://archive.today/20130217020414/http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=TH15088&sch=VTPH . usurped . February 17, 2013 . World Aero Data . 2019-01-14.
  3. News: Hua Hin airport due for upgrade, Ratchaburi could get small one . 9 August 2018 . The Nation . 6 August 2018 . 19 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190419135831/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30351532 . dead .