A recent report released by Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has indicated that Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC will have an additional 37 aircraft parking slots prior to the Lunar New Year early next year. 

The new slots are expected to ease the pressure from overload at the airport and thus help reduce flight delays and cancelations.

Vietnam Airlines aircraft are parked at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC

The airport will also introduce one more taxiway.

In particular, the airport’s VND1.1-trillion project to expand its aircraft parking area, which covers nearly 20 hectares of land taken from the Ministry of National Defense, is nearing completion. The area will have 29 parking slots.

Another expansion plan to add eight more aircraft parking slots and one taxiway in the north wing of the airport is slated for completion by the end of this year, with a total investment of VND700 billion.

Aside from the Tan Son Nhat expansion project, ACV has invested in building passenger terminal T2 at Cat Bi airport in the northern city of Haiphong, which costs VND1.6 trillion. The terminal can serve five million passengers per year.

Moreover, Vinh airport in Nghe An Province and Phu Bai airport in the central coastal city of Hue will be funded by ACV to build T2 passenger terminal, with the same total investment of VND1.7 trillion.

ACV is reportedly making reports on feasibility studies for the three passenger terminal projects and teaming up with agencies to carry out site clearance work. These projects, whose construction will begin in the third quarter of next year, are projected to be operational 34 months later.

SGT