Phuket · HKT · the gateway to the Andaman coast · June 2026
Phuket International Airport handled 17.5 million passengers in 2025 across three terminals. No airline hubs here, so traffic is close to pure origin and destination: passengers are arriving or leaving, not connecting through. Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi is its busiest route. It is Thailand's 3rd busiest airport. Blindspot books its screens by the hour, priced per play.

Phuket International Airport advertising spans from a few cents per play on concourse and gate screens to premium arrivals-hall LED and spectacular digital walls. On Blindspot, Phuket International Airport screens are booked by the hour and priced per play, entry plays start around $0.40, with no contracts or minimums.
The smart Phuket International Airport play isn't one screen for a month. It's the right screens at the right hours: the departures bank in the morning, the security and concourse dwell through the day, the arrivals halls when the long-haul flights land.
Billboard ranking points
Directional 1–10 scores based on zone type and passenger flow, not audited measurements. Every zone is bookable by the hour on the platform.
The International and Domestic terminal check-in concourses funnel every departing traveler past premium digital media before the gates.
Screening for Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 holds a phone-down queue, busiest on the Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi departure bank.
Thai AirAsia, Bangkok Airways and international passengers wait out boarding dwell across the International and Domestic gate holdrooms.
Reclaim belts and the arrivals corridor catch a captive, recently landed audience of Thai and international tourist travelers.
The minibus, smart-bus and taxi stands repeat your brand on the ride south toward Patong, Kata and Phuket Town.
The Phuket King Power duty-free and the airline lounges reach a higher-spend Thai and international tourist traveler before the flight.
The media estate · operator partners
Blindspot puts digital out-of-home (DOOH) and classic out-of-home from Phuket International Airport's media owners, AOT airport media, Plan B Media, JCDecaux Airport among them, onto one map, bookable by the hour. Below: real partner screens across the city's prime zones.






Imagery from media-owner/operator partners. Locations indicative; live availability and per-screen pricing show in the platform.
Formats
From a single gate screen to a full arrivals-hall takeover, Blindspot puts Phuket International Airport's digital out-of-home on one map, each screen priced per play and bookable by the hour. The formats that matter airside and landside:
Large-format digital across check-in islands and departures, where every traveler dwells before security.
Captive screens along the security and passport queues, minutes of guaranteed attention per passenger.
Concourse and gate-lounge screens reaching seated, relaxed travelers with long airside dwell.
High-dwell arrivals and baggage-claim placements as passengers wait, the airport's longest captive window.
Boarding-bridge and gate-side panels in the final moment before the flight.
Iconic hall and atrium spectaculars for brand-statement reach across the whole terminal.
Location insights
Phuket International is Thailand's third-busiest airport and the tourism gateway to the Andaman coast, sat on the northern tip of the island above the beach resorts of Patong, Kata and Karon. The modern International terminal handles the long-haul and regional carriers while the adjacent Domestic terminal, linked by a level-2 walkway, runs the dense banks to Bangkok and across Thailand. Mornings push the early domestic departures toward Bangkok, midday and evening hold the heavy international dwell toward China, India, the Gulf and Europe, and the arrivals halls and the minibus and taxi stands fill toward the beaches and Phuket Town. Two linked terminals, one Thai and international tourist audience. Buy the banks, not the dead hours.
Departures and check-in fill in the early-morning and late-afternoon banks. Book those hours and your frequency against business travelers climbs for the same budget.
Gates and the gate holdrooms hold seated, relaxed travelers for 60–90 minutes, long windows where dwell, not rush, does the work.
Arrivals fills as long-haul flights land in banks, high-value international passengers with time to read. Swap creative to match who just arrived.
Location intelligence summary
Phuket International Airport doesn't have a rush hour; it has flight banks. Departures peak in the morning, long-haul arrivals land in waves, and between them travelers dwell for 60–90 minutes with phones often stowed. The buying model that matches that is hourly: pay for the banks when your audience is captive, skip the dead hours.
| Objective | Book these zones | Best hours |
|---|---|---|
| Brand launch / premium | Departures + Transit | All day · long-haul banks |
| Business travelers | Departures, Gates | Weekday 6–10 AM · 4–8 PM |
| Long-dwell layovers | Gates, Arrivals | 10 AM–8 PM |
| International arrivals | Arrivals, Retail | Aligned to long-haul landing banks |
| Duty-free & retail | Departures, Gates | Departures peaks |
A month-long 24/7 rotation pays for 3 AM plays nobody sees. Hourly booking concentrates the same budget into Phuket International Airport’s proven peak windows, and typically saves 30%+ versus a flat four-week flight.
Security-line passengers read in seconds; gate-side travelers dwell for minutes. Run different creative by hour on the same screens, even trigger swaps on weather or live data.
Every play is logged. Blindspot campaigns report verified plays and attribution, measured against control groups, not estimated reach.
The zones above already draw a specific buyer: long-haul international arrivals in Arrivals and Retail, since Emirates and Qatar Airways carry travelers from the Middle East and Europe into Phuket International Airport, Thailand's third-busiest, where international passengers already outnumber domestic roughly two to one (10 million versus 6.6 million in 2025), and hospitality and F&B operators reaching the top visitor nationalities, Russian, Chinese, Indian, South Korean and Australian chief among them, through Departures and Gates (see DOOH for Restaurants).
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Pricing · updated June 2026
Per-play prices, not CPM mysteries. Live per-screen pricing and real-time availability are on every card in the platform; the ranges below reflect typical Blindspot pricing as of June 2026.
| Format | Price per play | Typical presence | Why it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Departures hall pillars & LED | from ~$0.40 per play | $100 buys hourly departures-hall slots | every departing traveler through the International and Domestic concourses |
| Gate concourse & holdroom screens | from ~$0.40 per play | $100 buys hourly holdroom slots | seated, Thai and international tourist traveler attention before boarding |
| City transit | from ~$0.38 per play | $100 buys repeat exposure on the city link | arrivals and visitors riding south toward the Andaman beaches |
| Arrivals & baggage reclaim | from ~$0.38 per play | $100 buys belt-side reclaim time | a captive, recently landed audience of Thai and international tourist travelers |
| Departures-hall spectacular | custom | flagship International terminal takeover | dominant share of voice over the whole departures core |
No minimums · no contracts · pay per verified play · hourly scheduling per screen
Four things move the price on any Phuket International Airport (HKT) screen: the format (pricing runs higher on departures-hall spectacular than on departures hall pillars & LED), the zone (Departures hall carries the highest footfall premium), the daypart (peak commute and evening hours price above the overnight lull), and how far in advance you book, since the busiest zones and formats sell out first.
What a campaign costs
Because you pay per play and schedule by the hour, your budget buys the exposure you actually need, not filler plays, so it works as hard on a big campaign as on a small one, with no minimum. Here's what budgets realistically buy. Live numbers per screen are in the platform.
Concourse test
The International gate holdrooms across an evening long-haul departure bank
Multi-zone airport push
Departures hall, security lanes, the international gates and the arrivals corridor together
HKT flagship takeover
Dominant share of voice across the departures core and the two linked terminals
FAQ
No. Blindspot books time on screens that are already installed and permitted by their media-owner operators, AOT airport media, Plan B Media, JCDecaux Airport among them, so you're leasing airtime on an existing structure, not erecting a new one.
Phuket International Airport handled 17.5 million passengers in 2025. The audience is the reason to buy it: air passengers are captive, comparatively affluent, and hard to reach through most channels, and they spend meaningful time in the terminal with attention to spare between check-in and boarding. Dwell is the asset. Unlike a roadside screen read in two seconds, a gate or arrivals placement gets minutes rather than moments, which is why airport placements hold up for brand and considered-purchase messages rather than short reminders. Thailand's third-busiest airport by passenger volume, serving mainly tourist traffic from Asia Pacific and Europe, with 17.47 million passengers in 2025. Because the screens are bookable by the hour, you can match spend to the flight banks that carry your audience instead of paying for a flat month.
Phuket International Airport zones are scored separately for visibility, dwell time and footfall, because the best placement depends on which of those you actually need. Departures hall guarantees exposure to essentially every departing passenger. Security & checkpoint holds attention through a queue, where dwell is involuntary and long. Concourse & gate holdrooms gives the longest relaxed attention, with passengers seated and waiting. Each zone shows its own per-play price and live availability, so you can pair a high-reach zone with a high-dwell one rather than guessing at a single best spot. Arrivals & baggage reclaim catches a recently landed audience with phones back out. Lounges & duty-free reaches a higher-spend traveler before the flight. The terminal layout shapes all of this: Phuket International Airport has three terminals: Terminal 2 for international flights, Terminal 3 for domestic flights, and Terminal X for charter flights, which opened in February 2014.
Yes. On Blindspot every Phuket International Airport screen is bookable by the hour with no minimum, so you can buy only the morning departures bank or the long-haul arrivals windows that match your audience.
The airport's media is run by operators such as AOT airport media, Plan B Media, JCDecaux Airport; Blindspot aggregates the bookable digital screens onto one map, priced per play.
Often within hours: upload, pass creative pre-check, and digital screens need no printing or installation. Approval typically averages around two business days across networks.
More than the usual airport rate card suggests, because you are buying plays rather than a fixed package. In Phuket International Airport a $500 budget typically funds a multi-day hourly presence across a high-dwell zone such as Concourse & gate holdrooms, or a concentrated burst on Departures hall and Security & checkpoint through the busiest departure banks only. At entry plays around $0.40, the arithmetic is visible before you commit. It will not buy a month of an arrivals-hall spectacular, and that is the trade: hourly, per-play buying lets a small budget own the specific windows when the passengers you want are actually in the terminal, instead of thinning the same money across empty overnight hours.
How to book
No sales calls, no contracts, self-serve from the map to live creative.
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Open the map, filter Phuket International Airport by zone and format, and select the exact screens and the exact hours your audience is out.
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Every screen shows its price per play and real-time availability before you commit. Build the plan; the running total is always visible.
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Upload creative, pass pre-check, and go live, often within hours. Track verified plays and attribution as the campaign runs.
17 million travelers. Your hour.
Pick the screens, pick the hours, see the price per play, live in hours.