Bangkok Don Muang Airport (DMK)

Updated 19th Aug 2026

Departures from Bangkok Don Muang Airport (DMK) at a glance

• 177flights a day2nd busiest of 30 airports
• 24routes from here
• 4airlines
• 06:00 – 21:50first and last00061218

Collected between 7 August 2026 and 22 August 2026. Not live — check with the airline before booking.

Don Muang International Airport (DMK) is the older of Bangkok's two airports and a base for Thailand's low-cost carriers. Airports of Thailand (AOT) puts it approximately 25 kilometres north of Bangkok, and roughly 46 kilometres from Suvarnabhumi Airport. Domestic flights use Terminal 2.

Don Muang's two terminals, and which one domestic flights use

Don Muang has two passenger terminals, and AOT sets out their roles plainly on its own page for the airport: Terminal 1 is the international terminal and Terminal 2 is the domestic one. For a domestic passenger that is the whole of it: check the terminal against your boarding pass rather than against an older description of the airport.

Flying within Thailand from Don Muang, you want Terminal 2.

Terminal 2, the domestic terminal

Terminal 2 is the terminal for flights within Thailand. AOT describes it as a two-storey building, and its taxi rank sits next to Gate 15.

Terminal 1, the international terminal

Terminal 1 handles international flights, and AOT calls it the International Passenger Terminal, Building 1, on its own transport pages. The airline offices and counters AOT lists are concentrated here, and so are most of the lounges it names. The airport bus counter is here too, on Floor 1 at Gate 6.

Getting to and from Don Muang Airport

The airport buses, metered taxis and the Red Line train all connect Don Muang with central Bangkok. AOT publishes the rank locations, the counter locations and the timings on its ground transport pages.

The airport buses

Four airport bus routes run between Don Muang and central Bangkok. AOT publishes them as A1 to A4. The counter and the pickup point are at the International Passenger Terminal, Building 1, on Floor 1 at Gate 6, and in front of the Service Hall building.

Bus	Where it goes	How often
A1	Mo Chit 2	Every 15 minutes
A2	Victory Monument	Every 15 minutes
A3	Lumpini Park	Every 30 minutes
A4	Sanam Luang	Every 30 minutes

A1 starts before 06:00 and runs until midnight. The other three run from 06:00 to 23:00, so a domestic flight landing late in the evening arrives when only A1 is still going, and after midnight none of the four is.

Taxis

Metered taxis work from Don Muang around the clock, and the rules below are for the journey out of the airport. The ranks are at Terminal 1 on Floor 1 by Gate 8, and next to Gate 15 at the domestic terminal.

A fixed surcharge set by the Ministry of Transport is added to the metered fare on a journey out of the airport. Insist on the meter, and do not agree a price before setting off. Expressway tolls are paid by the passenger on top of both the meter and the surcharge, which means the number on the meter is not the number you hand over.

The train, and why it is not the Airport Rail Link

The line that serves Don Muang is the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) Red Line, from the railway station opposite the airport. The Airport Rail Link is Suvarnabhumi's line and does not serve Don Muang, and there is no direct rail link between the two airports.

The rail operator publishes service from 05:00 to midnight, every 10 minutes in the morning and evening peaks and typically every 15 to 20 minutes at other times.

The station is not inside the terminals, so reaching it means leaving the terminal building and crossing over on foot with whatever you are carrying. AOT's own Phase 3 development programme includes a Junction Building to connect the airport to the Red Line, which is a fair measure of what the connection is like now.

Getting between Don Muang and Suvarnabhumi is a separate job, and the guide to international transfers between Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang covers it. Once you are off the airport bus, getting around Bangkok picks up from there.

AOT's shuttle bus between the two airports carries transit and transfer passengers only, and a boarding pass plus a passport or identity card has to be shown to board.

Facilities at Don Muang

AOT's facilities listing for Don Muang includes transport information, special assistance, Value Added Tax (VAT) refund, a government office, lounges, and lost and found; the lounges it names, with their hours:

• Miracle Lounge No.1, Terminal 1 International, 05:30 to 19:30 daily
• Miracle Lounge No.2, terminal not stated by AOT, 05:30 to 23:00 daily
• The Coral Executive Lounge, Terminal 1 International, 05:00 to 01:00 daily

AOT also lists a Miracle Lounge in Terminal 2, which is the domestic terminal.

Airlines AOT lists at Don Muang

AOT's airline directory for Don Muang lists offices and counters, not departure gates: it names which carriers keep a presence at the airport without saying where a particular flight leaves from. The carriers it lists include Nok Air, Thai AirAsia and Thai Lion Air. A further ten carriers are listed sharing a single office.

Domestic routes from Bangkok

Route pages on this site are city pairs: Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Bangkok to Phuket, Bangkok to Krabi and Bangkok to Hat Yai each cover departures from both of Bangkok's airports.

For the city as a whole, Bangkok flights information gathers the routes in and out, and the Bangkok destination guide covers the city itself.