Donmuang Free Zone Aviation (DMK-FZ)

Don Mueang International Airport, formerly known as Bangkok International Airport, was once functioning as the country’s primary commercial airport. It played an important role in establishing the air transport network connecting Bangkok to a number of cities in various regions, around the globe. Moreover, the airport had performed this dominant role for more than 9 decades before it officially handed over its primary role of air transport network to Suvarnabhumi Airport on 28 September 2006.

However, the then Government passed its resolution on the use of Don Mueang International Airport as the Bangkok’s 2 International airport, which resulted in reopening Don Mueang International Airport on 25 March 2006. In the initial phase, the airport served some of the domestic flights which were voluntarily transferred back from Suvarnabhumi Airport. At present, the airport is serving different kinds of flights such as domestic scheduled flights, non-scheduled flights, chartered flights, technical flights and general aviation.   Compared with the number of the 2006 based air traffic statistics, the number of aircraft, passenger and freight movements was reduced by 75.93 percent, 84.73 percent and 97.40 percent, respectively. The details of the 2007 air traffic statistics on air traffic are presented in the following.

Aircraft Movement
The total commercial aircraft movements of the year 2007 were 51,116  movements which were reduced by 75.93 percent as against those of the 2006.  The total number of 51,116 movements could be separated into 1,713 non-scheduled international movements, which were reduced by 98.73 percent, and 49,403 domestic movements, which were reduced by 36.08 percent.          In terms of the number of domestic scheduled airlines, they consisted of three airlines: Thai Airways International, Nok Air, and One-Two-Go. All of these airlines shared the percentage of the total flight movements in descending order as follows:- Thai Airways International by 28.54 Nok Air by 25.85 percent One-Two-Go by 17.20 percent

Passenger Movement
The total number of passengers was 4,805,240 passengers divided into 18,320 international and 4,786,920 domestic passengers. Compared with those of the year 2006, it was found that the total number of passengers, including international and domestic passengers, was decreased by 84.73 percent, 99.92 percent and 42.35 percent, respectively.

Mail Movement
In 2007, a handful of separate mail were jointly transported with freight by  each flight of the operations. 

Air Transport Statistics 2007 DAYING DAYS OF DON MUEANG 
For the domestic routes of the country, the routes between Don Mueang and Chiang Mai held 20.21 percent of the total inbound and outbound domestic passenger numbers, whereas the routes between Don Mueang and Phuket were ranked second by 19.00 percent.