FLY FROM U-TAPAO PATTAYA AIRPORT | A real option in 2024?

Bravo for doing this vid. I was just looking into this myself as an option in the area. I haven’t seen one like this out there so it is greatly appreciated. Just wish they would expand flights and market it more to encourage flyers to use it.

A friend flew to Chaing Mai back early 2019. So be interesting to see how much it has changed since then. I have driven past a few times, never stopped and looked. But Bangkok schedules and pricing and variation of airports around Thailand is always going to win at this moment. Will need a few more adjustments before it can compete really.

Did it again, another fantastic informative video… great stuff 😊

You are new here I would guess so you get a pass . The Thai ECC, is a typical Thai thing of an acronym describing a fancy western concept ,they love it The eastern provinces (changwats) came up with this concept , incorporating Chonburi ,Rayong and Chachoengsao 'staff' always friendly ,they have a job ,a good job but they are genuinely a smiling nation ,Land of Smiles etc

Brilliant overview of U-Tapao and number of flights and prices BC. Seems odd to have an airport 45 minutes from Pattaya, when Suvanapum(sp?) in only 2 hours. When the electric high speed rail is complete it should be a better option. I will likely be 80 years old but ready to take a ride. 5555 Thanks again BC, informative and concise is what I like. :face-blue-smiling::trophy-yellow-smiling::person-turqouise-waving:

Very informative video as usual Peter. Thanks for doing all the legwork and making it easy for others. Like Rick mentioned in his post, I’ll also probably be 80 by the time this comes into fruition.

I just booked FlyDubai from my capital (Ljubljana, Slovenia), via Dubai, straight to Utapao. Never been there, let's see. With the flight prices still being sky-high, at least I get to save some for the taxi ride 😊

Another informative and well presented video BC ! I have never been to U-Tapao airport before. Looks very relaxed which would suit me. We often go between Pattaya and Chiang Mai so maybe we will give it a go in the future. Cheers mate 👍🏼🍻🇦🇺

The AOT must have spent a few quid on that airport already. I flew from UTP a few times to USM. It was also cheaper then with Bangkok Airways but the flights were always half full. Back then there were about three wooden check in desks and only a small restaurant on the left as you entered the airport. I liked it because there were no queues, the restaurant had cheap beer and it was quite close to where I live in North Chonburi. Down the 331 and you were there. Good video mate.

Nice 👍

Great info once again. There are also cheap & good street restaurants, only 100m from the U-Tapao terminal's main door.

Been there in 2010

Very slick video. Don’t change how you present videos but IMHO you are one of the better YouTube guys in Pattaya. Did you know that there’s an American YouTuber from Pattaya who discovered his girlfriend is contributing to PM2.5 and is trying to play it down now? He will of course remain nameless, but it goes to show that you have to plan what you are going to do before you do it, else things unexpected might turn around and bite you in the butt, as our American friends are want to say. Keep up the good work.

Great video. I’ve looked a few times at flying into UTP from England Via Dubai. But it’s always double the price, plus the leg from Dubai is Fly Dubai, on a narrow body plane and it’s basically a low cost carrier. As much as I really want to try that flight I can’t justify the cost plus I don’t think it would be a comfy 6 hour flight

The last time got a flight from U - Tapao airport down to Phuket there was no motorway & the road into the airport was still dirt 2018 lots of pineapple farms 🍋near U_Tapao

The main issue with Utapao as an option is that it supposedly will be connected by fast rail at some undefined point in the distant future. Aside from that, the transport does suck. It is very overpriced and only marginally cheaper than getting to BKK from Pattaya despite being significantly closer. I used to fly from there to China and Malayasia, That was the old terminal though, the one with the worst toilet in Thailand and buses to all planes.

It is a pitty that no ferries are running across the gulf any more. Before Thailand thinks of more tourists should solve the massive airpolution first

Excellent 👍. You can be half way to Suwannapoom by the time you get to U-Tapao. Which airline flies to Dubai? (Answer is in another comment 😊.)