Buri Ram Airport guide

Buriram Airport sits in Satuek district, about 30 km north-east of Buriram city, and is the only airport in Buriram Province. It opened on 14 October 1996 and is run by Thailand's Department of Airports. A single asphalt runway, 04/22, measures 2,100 m by 45 m.

Scheduled service is a Bangkok link. Thai AirAsia flies to Don Mueang, and has also flown to Suvarnabhumi. Earlier operators included Thai Airways International, Phuket Air, PBair and Nok Air. Traffic was only 7,410 passengers in 2010, grew sharply from 2013 and peaked at 355,497 in 2019. The airport handled 241,946 passengers and 1,756 aircraft movements in 2025.

The airport serves visitors to the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, which hosts the Thailand round of MotoGP. Race periods bring extra scheduled, charter and private flights; more than 120 were expected for the 2026 event. A new passenger terminal with 25,500 square meters of usable floor space began trial operations on 6 February 2026. It is designed for about 1,000 passengers an hour, or 2.8 million a year, against the 750,000 a year the older building handled.