DMK Bangkok

How deep the DMK board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DMK. This reads the same 61 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 33of the 61 destinations are flown by one airline
• 17destinations run less than once a day
• 12destinations have four or more departures a day
• 72.1%of the destinations name Thai AirAsia, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DMK

13 airlines appear on the DMK board and they do not hold it evenly. Thai AirAsia is on 44 of the 61 destinations, 72.1 per cent of them, and on 19 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 187.4 of the 218.3 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Thai Lion Air on 30 destinations. 6 of the 13 airlines at DMK appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 44 of the 61 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DMK sector is usually another Thai AirAsia aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at DMK than the destination count does.

How much of the DMK board is daily

Of the 61 destinations, 44 are flown at least once a day and 17 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DMK board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: DMK to Townsville (TSV) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 92.3 of the 218.3 departures a day, 42.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 56 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at DMK usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Townsville TSV	Australia	Thai AirAsia	1	6,256	plan this
Ahmedabad AMD	India	Thai Lion Air	2	3,114	plan this
Lapu-Lapu City CEB	the Philippines	Cebu Pacific Air	3	2,571	plan this
Shanghai PVG	China	Thai Lion Air	3	2,889	plan this
Almaty ALA	Kazakhstan	Thai AirAsia X	4	3,970	the pair page
Nha Trang CXR	Vietnam	Thai AirAsia	4	957	plan this
Xianyang XIY	China	Thai Lion Air	4	2,426	plan this
Kunming KMG	China	Thai AirAsia	5	1,268	plan this
Mumbai BOM	India	Thai Lion Air	5	3,009	the pair page
Naha OKA	Japan	Thai AirAsia	5	3,128	plan this

The ten destinations out of DMK where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 6 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DMK

The desk holds the return direction for 44 of the 61 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into DMK runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Xianyang (XIY) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back and Manila (MNL) at 1.3 out a day against 0.71 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of DMK turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 2 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at DMK

DMK keeps Asia/Bangkok time, three hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 12:00 at DMK, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at DMK until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at DMK

1 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DMK that lands inside it leaves around 14:54, on a modelled block of 6h 06m. Those one departure times out of DMK are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where DMK turns up on the rest of this site

DMK carries two other pages on this site as well: the Thailand country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the DMK transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 17 airport pair pages that start or end at DMK, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Bangkok to Phuket (HKT), Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN).

Four courier postings name DMK as the airport a courier here flies from: Chon Buri, Lat Krabang and Kabin Buri.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DMK already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 61 destinations above.