Bangkok Airways

The airline was established in 1968 as Sahakol Air operating air-taxi services under contract from OICC.

It began scheduled services in 1986 from Bangkok Airport, becoming Thailand's first privately-owned domestic airline. It re-branded in 1989 to become Bangkok Airways.

It built its own airport on Ko Samui, which was opened in April 1989 and offers direct flights between the island and Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, Krabi , Pattaya, Phuket and Singapore.

The airline opened its second airport at Sukhothai in 1996.

A third airport was built in Trat, in March 2003 to serve the tourism destination of Ko Chang.