Roi Et Airport

Updated 1st Sep 2026

Departures from Roi Et Airport at a glance

• 3flights a day21st busiest of 30 airports
• 1route from here
• 1airline
• 08:25 – 19:55first and last00061218

Collected 2 September 2026. Not live — check with the airline before booking.

Roi Et Airport (ROI) has one scheduled airline and one scheduled destination. In the Department of Airports' own records for the whole of 2025 and for January 2026, every scheduled domestic flight here was flown by Thai AirAsia, and every one of them was to or from Bangkok Don Mueang. The operator's own flight board showed the same thing when it was checked on 1 September 2026.

Flights from Roi Et Airport

In those records Thai AirAsia is the only airline, and Bangkok Don Mueang the only airport it connects Roi Et to. AirAsia's own destination page for Roi Et lists Don Mueang as the single origin. The Department of Airports publishes its own flight board for Roi Et Airport, which shows what is operating on the day.

The schedule for the route sits on the pages for Bangkok to Roi Et and Roi Et to Bangkok.

No Suvarnabhumi service to Roi Et appears anywhere in those records or on that board. An international arrival at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi has to cross the city to Don Mueang, which is a journey between two separate airports rather than a connection inside one.

Airports of Thailand (AOT) runs a free shuttle bus between the two airports, and at Suvarnabhumi it leaves the arrivals level on the second floor, outside Gate 3. It is for transfer passengers only: staff check a boarding pass for a connecting flight, with a passport or identity card, and a ticket to Roi Et bought separately is not obviously one, so it is not something to build a tight plan around. The guide to transfers between Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang covers the other options.

One airline and one destination also means there is no second carrier at Roi Et to move to when a flight is disrupted, and no second Bangkok airport to fly into.

The terminal

Roi Et Airport opened in 1999, and its passenger terminal has since been through two rounds of building work. A Department of Airports briefing in April 2023 reported the extension as all but finished, the building's first refurbishment in more than twenty years, carried out during the Covid period while traffic was low. It added about 900 square metres to the departure hall, rebuilt the check-in counters, the main concourse and the departure-side toilets, and extended the canopy over the forecourt by about 800 square metres.

A further phase was completed at the end of 2024. At a ministerial site visit on 8 February 2025 the Department of Airports gave the passenger terminal as 5,723 square metres, rated at 600 passengers an hour or 1.7 million a year, up from 300 an hour. The car park holds 471 cars, and the apron and taxiway take four aircraft the size of a Boeing 737 at once.

The exterior and the internal signage use the lines and the brown tones of Roi Et's handwoven lai Saket silk, the province's own pattern. New seating was bought for the waiting hall, and the same round of work added lettable space inside the building.

Where the airport is

The airport stands in Nong Phok subdistrict of Thawat Buri district, east of Roi Et town, on provincial highway 2044, the Roi Et to Phon Thong road.

What there is to do once you have landed is covered in the Roi Et destination guide.

How busy Roi Et Airport is

Roi Et handled 397,649 passengers in 2025, up from 342,970 in 2024, in the Department of Airports' own published statistics. That is the newest complete year the operator has published, and October was its busiest month.

In the operator's 2025 flight-level records, most of the aircraft movements at Roi Et were not airline flights at all: training flights outnumbered scheduled airline movements by more than two to one. A flying school flew almost all of them, with a small number by Aerothai, the state air navigation service, on flight checking work.

Those training flights carry no passengers, so none of them appear in the passenger totals above.

What is planned

The Department of Airports intends to lengthen the runway from its present 2,100 metres, so that it can take larger aircraft and meet International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) requirements. The Deputy Minister of Transport announced it on 8 February 2025 at 2,500 metres, with completion targeted within 2030; by November 2025 the design had grown to 2,990 metres, for ICAO Code E aircraft, and the project was part way through a 300-day design and environmental study due to end in April 2026. At that point no construction contract had been let, and approval from the National Environment Board and the cabinet was still required.

The stated aim is to make Roi Et a customs airport, so that arriving passengers clear customs at Roi Et instead of at Khon Kaen or Ubon Ratchathani, and so that the airport can take international charter flights directly. The catchment named at the February 2025 briefing is Roi Et plus Maha Sarakham, Kalasin, Yasothon and Mukdahan.

Frequently asked questions

Which airline flies to Roi Et Airport, and from which Bangkok airport?

Thai AirAsia, from Bangkok Don Mueang. In the Department of Airports' records for 2025 and January 2026, and on its flight board on 1 September 2026, no other scheduled airline and no other scheduled destination appears at Roi Et.

Is there a flight between Suvarnabhumi and Roi Et Airport?

None appears in the operator's records for 2025 and January 2026, or on its flight board on 1 September 2026. An international arrival at Suvarnabhumi has to travel across Bangkok to Don Mueang to pick up the Roi Et flight.

Where is Roi Et Airport, and how far out of town?

Published figures do not agree with one another, so this page does not give a distance. What is settled is the direction: the airport is east of the town, in Thawat Buri district, on provincial highway 2044, the Roi Et to Phon Thong road.

Is Roi Et Airport being expanded?

The terminal already has been. A refurbishment was reported as all but finished in April 2023, and a further phase was completed at the end of 2024, taking the building to 5,723 square metres and its rating to 600 passengers an hour. A longer runway was announced on 8 February 2025 and was still in design and environmental study in November 2025, with no construction contract let.