Spotters Magazine - Yearbook 2016

Phuket airport (HKT/VTSP) has a 09/27 oriented runway and an old
and small terminal thant, from June 1st 2016, will be joined by a new
structure ready to welcome the millions of passengers who every year
come to the famous Thai resort town.
As you can well imagine the traffic is more than good; the main companies
are: Thai Airways, Bangkok Air, Air Asia.
Several flights connect the island with China, but Phuket is easily reachable
even with direct flights from Australia, South Korea, Europe, and
recently also from the Gulf. In fact Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways
addes Phuket to their growing networks.
What about spotting? First thing to consider is the sun: from October
to April the sun stays in the south of the runway while from May to
September you’ll have it in the north. That said, the main spotting,
and also the most “exotic” one, is the Mai Khao beach, where you can
photograph the landing aircraft on runway 09.
As specified above, you have to choose your position according to the
season.
During afternoons you could take photos also to taxiing aircraft, but
lately the local police do not have much pleasure in this, moving away
who is stationed at the perimeter of the airport. Unfortunately the situation
isn’t like some years ago: among other things, Phuket Airport was
also famous for the way (4031 rd.) that ran along the entire taxiway,
only separated by a small fence through which ypu could take photos.
Now it is no longer possible because it has been built a 3 maters high
barrier.
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