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Hat Yai International Airport (VTSS/HDY) is the principal gateway to southern Thailand, lying some 9 km east of Hat Yai city in Songkhla province. It offers a single long, lit hard-surface runway with an ILS on one approach, making it a straightforward destination for VFR and IFR traffic alike in the simulator. As the region's busiest airport outside Bangkok and Phuket, it handles a steady mix of domestic and regional international services.
Hat Yai International Airport serves the city of Hat Yai and the wider Songkhla province in southern Thailand, close to the Malaysian border. It is operated by Airports of Thailand (AOT) and functions as the main air hub for the lower south of the country, handling scheduled services to Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Udon Thani and regional international points such as Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. For a simulator pilot it offers a single substantial runway with instrument approach capability, set in a relatively rural landscape a short distance from the city itself.
The airport lies in Khlong La subdistrict, Khlong Hoi Khong district, Songkhla province, about 9 km east of downtown Hat Yai and roughly 43 km east of Songkhla city itself. Highway 4135 (Sanambin Panij Road) links the airfield to the city. As an international commercial airport it sits within controlled airspace appropriate to its traffic levels, with approach control, tower and ground services all provided.
The airport has a single physical runway, 08/26, some 9,980 ft (about 3,040 m) long with a hard surface and runway lighting. The 26 approach is equipped with an ILS, giving instrument guidance for arrivals from that direction; the reciprocal 08 threshold is lit but without an ILS.
Pilots can expect the following frequencies: Approach on 126.7 MHz, ATIS on 128.8 MHz, Ground on 121.9 MHz and Tower on 118.1 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 26, supporting instrument approaches into the airfield.
Hat Yai International Airport is managed by Airports of Thailand, PLC (AOT) and has grown into the fifth busiest airport in the country by passenger numbers. The field has not been without incident: during the 2005 Songkhla bombings, a bomb planted at the departure lounge by Pattani separatists exploded on 3 April 2005, killing two passengers and injuring ten. The airport has seen substantial growth in traffic over the past decade, rising from under two million passengers in 2011 to well over three million by the mid-2020s, and expansion plans aim to increase capacity to serve more than ten million passengers by 2030.
The airport operates daily from 06:00 to 24:00 local time and its runway is rated to handle up to 30 flights per hour. It is a full international airport with two terminals serving both domestic and international traffic, with airlines including Thai AirAsia (which bases operations there), Nok Air, Thai Lion Air, Thai VietJet, Bangkok Airways, Thai Airways International, Batik Air Malaysia, Berjaya Air and Scoot serving destinations across Thailand and the region.