Ho Chi Minh City Long Thanh Airport

Long Thanh International Airport (Sân bay Quốc tế Long Thành)
Characteristics
Coordinates	10 ° 46 '21 "  N , 107 ° 2' 43"  E Coordinates: 10 ° 46 '21 "  N , 107 ° 2' 43"  E
Transport links
Distance from the city center	40 km northeast of Ho Chi Minh City
Basic data
opening	2025
operator	Southern Airports Authority
surface	5000 ha
Capacity ( PAX per year)	25 million (first expansion phase) , 100 million (final expansion phase )
Runways
unknown	4000 m × 60 m concrete
unknown	4000 m × 60 m concrete
unknown	4000 m × 60 m concrete
unknown	4000 m × 60 m concrete

The Long Thanh International Airport ( Vietnamese : Sân bay Quốc tế Long Thành) is a planned major airport in Vietnam . It is to be built 40 kilometers northeast of the South Vietnamese metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City in the Long Thanh district in the Đồng Nai province .

The plan

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) planned the construction of Long Thanh International Airport back in 2006. Its construction should be realized between 2011 and 2015.

In 2011, the Ministry of Transport applied to then Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung for approval of the project. The plans envisaged an initial construction phase with two runways and a later gradual expansion. After completion of the first construction phase, which was planned for 2015 to 2020, it should have a capacity of 25 million passengers per year, twice as many as in 2011 at the existing Tan Son Nhat Airport . In the second expansion phase you want to go from two to three and in the third from three to four slopes. In the final expansion stage, the capacity should be 100 million passengers per year in 2030. The cost of the first phase of construction was given as more than 6.7 billion US dollars , which should be funded by the government investment budget and private and foreign investors.

The 2010 master plan provides that the airport will be equipped with four runways, each 4000 meters long, five terminals and several freight terminals in the final expansion stage. The project is to cover an area of ​​50 km². At the same time as the airport, expressways and railway lines are being built for development.

The approval of the then Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung took place on October 1, 2014. The parliament in Hanoi approved the construction of the airport in June 2015. The construction costs have now been estimated at US $ 15.8 billion, the construction period is to extend in three phases from 2018 to 2050. The first phase will cost $ 5.2 billion. Construction will start in 2018 and will be completed in 2025. According to preliminary calculations, the second construction phase will be between 2030 and 2035 and will cost four billion dollars. The third construction phase will follow between 2040 and 2050, the cost is 6.6 billion dollars.

Web links

• Anna Baumbach: Vietnam is getting a new major airport. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. June 17, 2015, accessed December 20, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Anna Baumbach: Vietnam gets a new major airport. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. June 17, 2015, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Federal Agency for Foreign Trade: Vietnam is expanding its range of airports significantly. Plans for six international airports / Relief of Saigon through the new Long Thanh location. Archived from the original on December 31, 2008 ; Retrieved December 20, 2016 .  , October 9, 2006
3. ^ Stefan Eiselin: Mega airport for Vietnam. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. August 17, 2011, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
4. ↑ New airport in Dong Nai expected to open by 2020 , Việt Nam News, March 10, 2011
5. ↑ New airport in Dong Nai expected to open by 2020. In: Viet Nam News. March 10, 2011, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
6. ↑ PM okays airport investment report. In: VietnamNet. October 3, 2014, accessed December 20, 2016 . 
7. ↑ ap: Parliament approves a major airport in Ho Chi Minh City. In: NZZonline. June 25, 2015, accessed December 20, 2016 .