Flights to Utapao get operated from the Utapao International Airport, which is located at the city of Utapao in the country of Thailand. Apart from being an active civil airport, the Utapao International Airport is also the base of the Royal Thai Navy First air Wing. The Utapao International Airport was also a major front line base of the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. The geographical coordinates of the Utapao International Airport serving the Utapao flights are 12º 40' 47.8 N and 101º 00' 18.1 E with the runway at the U Tapao Airport stretching up to a distance of eleven thousand and five hundred feet which is approximately equal to three thousand five hundred and five meters. The altitude at which the Utapao International Airport is placed measures forty two feet above the sea level.
Some of the leading airlines that are offering their domestic flights to Utapao as well as International flights to Utapao include:
- Bangkok Airways which flies between the cities of Utapao and Koh Samui and Phuket
- Finnair airlines connecting the cities of Utapao and Helsinki
- Korean Air airlines which flies between the cities of Seoul-Incheon and Utapao.
Many of these airlines also have provisions for cheap Flights to Utapao. The Bankok Airways offers one daily flight service to Phuket carrying seventy people at a time. It also offers a daily flight to Koh Samui carrying seventy people together.
The various tourist attractions at nearby the Utapao International Airport include:
- Grand Palace,
- Chakri Mahaprasat Hall,
- Wat Phra Kaew,
- Chitralada Palace,
- Wat Suthat Temple
- Wat Pho temple containing Wat Phra Chetuphon.
