Sandman77 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 When this airport closed? I not find any flight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Often asked. No scheduled passenger flights ever. Last exception I remember was for Asian Games 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovenman Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 THAI used to fly this as a daily scheduled route to/from Bangkok about fifteen years ago, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55Jay Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 "Build it and they will come" doesn't always work. Story goes it's too far away from the city itself, and the average member of population would rather avoid the hassle and/or extra cost of getting there, and just take a bus or catch a ride to BKK. It was in the news recently as a potential aircraft maintenance facility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701A Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 wow that airport is huge viewed on google earth. they should fire it up with one flight a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Thai had scheduled flights there years ago, 500 Baht a seat, 1000 to go biz class and saved you the 4hr drive ... very convenient. Seem to remember there being military aircraft there then too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soihok Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Used to use it until the flights stopped. Last flight I took from it was in 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) Seem to remember there being military aircraft there then too. Korat airbase is one of the biggest in the country. Countless photos and even videos of US airmen being there during the Vietnam war. (in a group with U-Tapao and Udon Thani) I assume civil flights were always in the fringes. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vietnam-War-Years-of-Korat-Royal-Thai-Air-Base/151193004893638 http://www.frontiernet.net/~freitag/Korat/index.html Edited January 18, 2015 by KhunBENQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soihok Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Yes, they make the windows on the house rattle from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james512 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Kan Airlines are advertising a Korat to Chiang Mai flight on their website. Couldn't see a timetable though... http://www.kanairlines.com/main/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanyaburi Mac Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Korat MILITARY field is almost right downtown Korat. Used to be used by Thai for their civil flights long ago. Then some politician who had vacant land out east of Korat city, perhaps 20+ km, got the government to buy it for a new CIVIL airport. One or two airlines did fly into it for a few years, stop and start service, so to speak. Not very popular as given driving and waiting times, turned out to be only a little faster than driving or busing down the Friendship Highway to Bangkok, thus no air service now. Mac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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