Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
DMK
Airport information
Don Mueang International Airport
Bangkok, ThailandIATA: DMKICAO: VTBD
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
2 runways · Longest runway: 12,139 ft
- 03L/21R12,139 ft · heading 30/210 degrees
- 03R/21L11,483 ft · heading 29/209 degrees
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
CNXThailand
Chiang Mai
- Distance
- 353 mi
- Estimated duration
- 52m
- Airlines
Nok Air · RAF-Avia · +2
Nok Air · RAF-Avia · Thai AirAsia · Thai Lion Air
KULMalaysia
Kuala Lumpur
- Distance
- 775 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 50m
- Airlines
AirAsia · Batik Air Malaysia · +2
AirAsia · Batik Air Malaysia · Myanmar Airways International · Thai AirAsia
CGKIndonesia
Jakarta
- Distance
- 1,445 mi
- Estimated duration
- 3h 6m
- Airlines
Alpha Sky · Batik Air · +5
Alpha Sky · Batik Air · Citilink · Garuda Indonesia · Indonesia AirAsia · Thai AirAsia X · Thai Lion Air
SINSingapore
Singapore
- Distance
- 899 mi
- Estimated duration
- 2h 3m
- Airlines
AirAsia · Indonesia AirAsia · +6
AirAsia · Indonesia AirAsia · Myanmar Airways International · Singapore Airlines · Thai AirAsia · Thai Lion Air · Turkish Airlines · Vietnam Airlines
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- BangkokSuvarnabhumi AirportBKK19 mi78 destinations
- Chiang MaiChiang Mai International AirportCNX353 mi15 destinations
- Ho Chi Minh CityTan Son Nhat International AirportSGN461 mi16 destinations
- PenangPenang International AirportPEN596 mi12 destinations
- HanoiNoi Bai International AirportHAN610 mi40 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Don Mueang International Airport
- City and country
- Bangkok, Thailand
- IATA / ICAO
- DMK / VTBD
- Time zone
- Asia/Bangkok
- Terminal
- 1, 2
- Category
- Major airport
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Don Mueang: Bangkok's low-cost airport
Don Mueang International Airport (IATA DMK, ICAO VTBD) lies about 25 kilometers north of central Bangkok and is one of the oldest airports in the world still in operation, opened in 1914. Replaced as Bangkok's main gateway by Suvarnabhumi in 2006, it reopened in 2012 as the city's low-cost airport and is today one of the busiest budget-airline airports anywhere, the base of Thai AirAsia and Thai Lion Air and the place where most domestic and regional low-cost flights begin. Travelers connecting from a long-haul flight at Suvarnabhumi need to allow for the ride between the two. The live radar on this page shows the traffic around Don Mueang; the arrivals and departures pages are linked above it.
Airlines and destinations
Thai AirAsia is the largest airline, with Thai AirAsia X flying the longer routes to Japan, Korea and Australia, and Thai Lion Air the second, followed by Nok Air on the domestic network; AirAsia and Batik Air Malaysia fly from Kuala Lumpur, Cebu Pacific from Manila, Indonesia AirAsia and Citilink from Jakarta, and Singapore Airlines is one of the few full-service carriers here. In our route data, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Tokyo Narita, Chiang Mai and Taipei are the most frequently flown connections, with Jakarta, Manila, Seoul and Osaka close behind.
Getting into Bangkok and to Suvarnabhumi
The SRT Dark Red Line commuter train stops at Don Mueang station, linked to the terminal by a walkway, and reaches Bang Sue Grand Station (Krung Thep Aphiwat) in about twenty minutes, with connections to the MRT; buses A1 to A4 run to the Mo Chit BTS station and to Khao San Road and Silom. Taxis use the meter plus an airport surcharge and take 45 minutes to an hour and a half to the center. A free shuttle bus links Don Mueang with Suvarnabhumi for passengers holding an onward ticket; allow an hour or more for the ride, longer in the rush hour.
Good to know
Don Mueang has two terminals side by side, connected by a walkway: Terminal 1 for international flights and Terminal 2 for domestic ones. Check-in queues for the low-cost carriers are long in the morning, and baggage rules are enforced strictly at the gate; arrive two hours ahead for international flights. The airport is next to a Royal Thai Air Force base, so the radar shows military traffic too. Bangkok's main airport, Suvarnabhumi, handles the long-haul and full-service flights; for the islands, Phuket and Krabi are served from both Bangkok airports. Every airport we track is listed in the airport overview.