Happy Air

Updated 12th Aug 2026

Is Happy Air still flying?

Nothing has been reported about Happy Air since April 2019, when a relaunch of the airline was under discussion, and the record goes quiet after that. Silence is not a confirmed closure, so the honest answer is that the airline's status is unresolved rather than settled in either direction.

Happy Air Holidays, at happyairholidays.com, is a separate tour operator, not the airline.

Happy Air's suspensions and 2019 relaunch talk

Happy Air was founded in April 2009 as Happy Air Travellers Co., Ltd., and flew from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK). Its International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) code is HPY. It has no International Air Transport Association (IATA) code.

The airline suspended flights around 5 February 2015, having planned to resume in the middle of that year. It suspended them again in April 2016, when its sole aircraft, a leased Saab 340B, went back to its lessor in Sweden.

The trade report on that second suspension calls Happy Air an intermittent operator, and gives its scheduled network at the time as two routes: Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Chumphon Airport (CJM) and Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Ranong Airport (UNN), flown alongside charter work.

One leased aircraft on two routes is a small operation, and that was the scale Happy Air was working at when it suspended in 2016.

Talks about relaunching the airline were reported on 9 April 2019, and later that month Thai tour operators were pressing for changes to the plan. Nothing further has been reported about it.

Records also differ on whether 2015 was the end. Wikipedia lists Happy Air as disestablished that year, while the aviation trade press covered a further suspension in 2016 and the 2019 relaunch talks, which fits a run of suspensions better than a single closing date.

Looking for a route Happy Air used to fly?

Happy Air's status is unresolved, so it is not an airline to build a trip around. Its two scheduled routes in 2016, Bangkok to Chumphon and Bangkok to Ranong, each have their own page on this site. For a domestic route in Thailand, our comparison of Thailand's regional airlines covers the carriers that fly the network and is the more useful starting point.