Kan Air

Updated 12th Aug 2026

Kan Air, the trading name of Kannithi Aviation Co., Ltd, ran scheduled domestic flights in Thailand under the International Air Transport Association (IATA) code K8. It was founded on 24 September 2010 and flew regional routes out of northern Thailand. It grounded its fleet in April 2017 and has not been reported flying a scheduled service since.

Did Kan Air stop flying?

Its scheduled flying stopped in April 2017. The airline's ATR 72-500 had been grounded since 20 March that year with a propeller fault, and its last flyable aircraft, a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, was grounded shortly after, which left it with nothing to fly. Operations were suspended on or about 21 April 2017.

At the time the airline's president said Kan Air would not close down altogether and expected to be flying again within a few weeks, as ch-aviation reported. Wikipedia's list of defunct Thai airlines now records the carrier as having operated from 2010 to 2017. What stopped was the scheduled network; what became of the airline's charter and medical evacuation work has not been reported either way.

Kan Air is among the former scheduled airlines listed by this site; the Thailand airlines comparison covers other regional carriers.

Where Kan Air used to fly from

Kan Air's operating base was Chiang Mai International Airport (CNX), not Bangkok. Its head office was in Bangkok, in the Lak Si district near Don Mueang, but that was the office address rather than the base: the aircraft flew from Chiang Mai.

As of September 2016, the route list ran from Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son, Pai, Nan, Chiang Rai, Phitsanulok, Khon Kaen, Ubon Ratchathani, Hua Hin and U-Tapao.

Its fleet changed over the airline's life, and at different points included a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, two ATR 72-500 turboprops and a Beechcraft Premier I used briefly for a private-jet service.

Can I still fly to Pai or Mae Hong Son?

As of August 2026, no scheduled flights to Pai or Mae Hong Son appear in this site's route data. Both airports are marked as having no current scheduled service in that data.

Both were on Kan Air's Chiang Mai route list, and this site has no schedule page for Chiang Mai to Pai or for Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son, so there is no timetable here to check. Pai Airport covers the airfield's current status.

Is Kan Air's old website still Kan Air's?

The address is no longer the airline's: kanairlines.com now redirects to an unrelated company that says it acquired the domain and has nothing to do with air travel. Anything still quoting it as a place to book a Kan Air flight is out of date.

Old Kan Air phone numbers, call centre details and booking pages may still circulate in directories and travel listings. They do not indicate that scheduled flights have resumed.