20/11/2023
🇹🇭 Starts next year !!! Utapao Rayong-Pattaya international airport and Eastern Aerotropolis, the gateway to EEC of Thailand, will be started to build in 2024, and will be opened in 2027.
Progress of the project in the present, there are preparation of construction site, moving old MRO building and planes, and building airport infrastructures. The preparation of construction site has been finished already. The first phase's construction (the new terminal or terminal 3, and the 2nd runway) will begin in 2024, and will finish in 2027.
The airport's development is divided into 6 phases
• 1st & 2nd phase: build the new main terminal, 157,000 sq.m., 12 - 15.9 million passengers per year in 2027
• 3rd & 4th phase : expand the main terminal to 264,000 sq.m., 22.4 - 30 million passengers per year in 2034
• 5th phase: expand the main terminal to 371,000 sq.m., 45 million passengers per year in 2047
• 6th phase: build the new midfield terminal, 82,000 sq.m., 60 million passengers per year in 2060
Utapao Rayong-Pattaya international airport is developed by Thai companies, Bangkok Airways PCL, BTS group holdings PCL, and Sino-Thai Engineering And Construction PCL, and designed by SOM. This airport will be the 3rd main international airport of Thailand, and will be linked with Don Mueang international airport and Suvarnabhumi international airport by high-speed train that will be built and opened in 2028-2029.
More information: https://www.uta.co.th/
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