New Airport for Hochiminh City

The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a master plan for construction of the Long Thanh International Airport in Long Thanh District of Dong Nai Province, 40km south east of HCMC.

The airport will command some US$8 billion in investment and cover 5,000 hectares, designed to handle 5 million pieces of cargo and 100 million passengers per year, 10 times Tan Son Nhat Int’l Airport in HCMC.

The project is also aimed at alleviating passenger loads at Tan Son Nhat Airport, as it is impossible to expand the airport due to space limitations.

The airport is scheduled to open between 2010 and 2015 with four runways able to receive Airbus 380s, and have several terminals and commercial sections.