Bangkok Airport Satellite Terminal Opens To AirAsia X, Thai Vietjet

Thai prime minister Srettha Thavisin at SAT-1

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin at the opening ceremony of SAT-1.

Credit: Airports of Thailand
SINGAPORE—The new satellite terminal (SAT-1) at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) opened Sept. 29 to increase the capacity at the overcrowded facility. Costing THB35 billion ($1 billion) to build, the 251,000-m² (2.7 million ft.²) SAT-1 will eventually allow BKK’s annual passenger volume to...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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