Thailand Will Begin Building $9 Billion ‘Aviation City’ This Year

Smaller aviation cities are growing in popularity, such as Saudi Arabia’s NEOM City in the Middle East, and now Asia could soon have an aviation city too. Slated to begin construction soon, Thailand is investing nearly 300 billion baht ($8.82 billion) in its aviation city project, known as U-Tapao ‘Eastern Aviation City.’ This is one of the country’s largest megastructure projects.

Transforming a historical airport

The massive investment from the Thai government is planned to revamp the historical U-Tapao airport, which dates back to the Vietnam War and is located in the Pla subdistrict of the Baanchang district of the Rayong province. The revamped vision of U-Tapao International Airport is to see the post-war building become a new international airport occupying approximately 1,040 hectares of land.

A new passenger terminal building will also be…