Take-off from Don Mueang Airport || 2023 || CLOSE UP TAKEOFFS & LANDINGS #flight #airasia #thailand

Takeoff from Don Mueang Airport || 2023 || CLOSE UP TAKEOFFS & LANDINGS #flight #airasia #thailand

Don Mueang International Airport or colloquially as สนามบินดอนเมือง, (IATA: DMK, ICAO: VTBD) is one of two international airports serving the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, the other one being Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK). Before Suvarnabhumi opened in 2006, Don Mueang was previously known as Bangkok International.
Don Mueang International Airport, also known as Old Bangkok International Airport, was officially opened as a Royal Thai Air Force Base in March 1914. The airport is located 24km north of Bangkok. Commercial flights began operating from the airport in 1924.

Don Mueang was closed commercially in September 2006, as the new Suvarnabhumi Airport opened in Bangkok, but it continued to be used for charter flights and also as an aircraft maintenance centre.

The airport was reopened in March 2007 to ease passenger traffic and allow repairs to be made to the cracked runways at Suvarnabhumi Airport and also to carry on the second-stage expansion of Suvarnabhumi Airport. After the renovation of the taxiway, Don Mueang is now used for serving 140 domestic flights carrying 20,000 passengers each day.

Before the closure, Don Mueang was the 18th-busiest airport in the world and second busiest in Asia by passenger volume. At its peak, in 2005, Don Mueang accommodated 80 airlines, operating 160,000 flights serving the whole continent and handling 38,000,000 passengers and 700,000t of cargo.