Airports of Thailand PCL
Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited is a Thai public company. It manages Thailand's six international airports and will add four more airports in 2019. In 2018, it became the most-valuable airport operator in the world.
Thailand's 28 regional airports are managed by the Department of Airports, a separate agency.
AOT was established on 20 September 2002, as a result of the privatisation of the state-owned Airports Authority of Thailand. At that time, the company was worth 14,285,700,000 baht. The Thai government held, and still holds, 70 percent of the company's stock. During fiscal year 2014 AOT's average daily market capitalization was 282,321 million baht.
AOT's fiscal year runs from 1 October–30 September, thus AOT's FY2018 was from 1 October 2017 – 30 September 2018.
AOT airports
AOT operates the following airports in Thailand: The statistics are shown for calendar years.Name | Name | Region | 2018 Statistics | 2018 Statistics |
Name | Name | Region | Passengers | Movements |
1 | Suvarnabhumi Airport | Central | 63,379,077 | 369,476 |
2 | Don Mueang International Airport | Central | 40,758,148 | 272,361 |
3 | Phuket International Airport | Southern | 18,221,525 | 118,280 |
4 | Chiang Mai International Airport | Northern | 10,989,869 | 78,210 |
5 | Hat Yai International Airport | Southern | 4,256,107 | 29,203 |
6 | Mae Fah Luang–Chiang Rai International Airport | Northern | 2,867,289 | 20,072 |
Total | Total | Total | 140,472,015 | 887,602 |
AOT had planned to assume management of Udon Thani, Sakon Nakhon Airport, Tak, and Chumphon Airport from the Department of Airports in 2019. In August 2019, it announced that its plans had been amended; it would assume control of Udon Thani International Airport, Tak Airport, Buriram Airport, and Krabi International Airport, leaving Sakon Nakhon and Chumphon to the DOA. DOA is resisting the change as Udon and Krabi are its money-making airports; Sakon Nakhon and Chumphon are not.