{"id":1691,"date":"2014-07-03T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2014-07-03T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:01:52","slug":"koh-phangan-airport-operative-for-the-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1691-koh-phangan-airport-operative-for-the-end-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Koh Phangan airport operative for the end of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The direct air route Bangkok to Koh Phangan should be operational by the end of the year. The construction of the airport on the island is about to be complete.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Haad Rin Koh Phangan\" alt=\"Haad Rin Ko Phangan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/koh-phangan\/ko-phangan-hat-rin.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" data-mce-selected=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haad Rin in Koh Phangan hosts a monthly Full Moon Party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Somphong Sooksanguan, investor of <a href=\"\/eng\/cities\/koh-phangan.php\">Koh Phangan<\/a> airport\u00a0and founder of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kan Air\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kanairlines.com\/web\/index.php\/page\/lang\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Kan Air<\/a>, has confirmed that the first flight will take off at the end of the year. The construction of the airport is 70% complete. It already cost 500 million baht but total cost may reach 1 billion bahts.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, people had to take a ferry to go to the island. It \u00a0will be soon possible to get there by air directly from Bangkok.\u00a0Kan Air will offer 3 rotations per day fro Don Muang Airport, dedicated to low cost airlines. However, Koh Phangan\u00a0airport will remain open to other airlines.<\/p>\n<p>If air traffic to the island intensifies the quiet side of Koh Phangan (Full Moon Party time a part) may be experiencing its last hours. We saw what happened with the opening of an airport in Koh Samui&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The direct air route Bangkok to Koh Phangan should be operational by the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}