There will be nearly 26,300 take-offs and landings, up by 20% from the 2017 Tet occasion, according to the Southern Air Authority. Carriers had plans to increase their flights by 10-15% from the 2017 Tet to meet the travel demands during the country’s biggest festival. Airlines, by December 26, had registered to increase nearly 3,000 flights and 582,000 seats on 22 routes from and to 18 domestic airports for the Tet Holiday. Flight routes with additional flights and seats include Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport (790 flights/158,000 seats), Tan Son Nhat Airport to Thua Thien – Hue province’s Phu Bai Airport (335 flights/67,000 seats), Tan Son Nhat Airport to Khanh Hoa province’s Cam Ranh Airport (324 flights/66,000 seats) and Tan Son Nhat Airport to Da Nang Airport (262 flights/51,000 seats), as well as Tan Son Nhat Airport to Nghe An province’s Vinh Airport (185 flights/36,000 seats) and Tan Son Nhat Airport to Thanh Hoa province’s Tho Xuan Airport (182 flights/37,000 seats). Earlier, Deputy Minister of Transport Le Dinh Tho urged the aviation industry and relevant state bodies to work to minimize flight delays and cancellations during the Tet holiday. According to Bui Minh Dang, deputy head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam’s transport division, the aviation industry saw a significant growth of around 19-20% in 2017. It served about 62 million passengers in 2017, an increase of 19% from 2016. In 2017, the average On-time Performance (OTP) of airlines was estimated… [Read full story]
The country’s busiest airport, Tan Son Nhat in HCM City, has taken measures to cope with overload inside as well as on roads outside during Tet (the Lunar New Year) next month. The airport is usually packed during Tet as people leave for their hometowns. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam, the number of passengers is expected to increase by 20 per cent this year to more than 4.1 million on a total of 26,288 flights. Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air and Jetstar Pacific will increase the number of flights during Tet by 10-15 per cent from a…... [read more]
Over 100 remains of Vietnamese soldiers have been found at HCM City's Tan Son Nhat Airport, but there could be several hundred bodies yet to be recovered from the site, dating back to the 1968 Tet Offensive. Search for the mass grave at Tan Son Nhat Airport During a press conference on July 6 about the search for the mass grave, head of the search team Nguyen Xuan Thang said they were searching for a grave that could contain the remains of up to 600 soldiers to the west of Tan Son Nhat Airport.In 1995, the local authorities dug up…... [read more]
Tan Son Nhat Airport The 2-year maximum completion time is one of the requirements that the deputy PM has asked the Ministry of Transport to set down in its plan to increase the capacity of the sole airport serving Ho Chi Minh City. Tan Son Nhat has been severely strained in recent years as it has had to handle a number of passengers exceeding its design capacity of 25 million a year. The airport already served 26.5 million passengers in 2015, 32 million in 2016 and an estimated 36 million in 2017. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has predicted…... [read more]
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAA) has proposed a VND19trn (USD848m) plan to upgrade Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat Airport. The 25-million capacity airport welcomed 32 million passengers last year. The upgrade plan to 2020 with vision to 2030 aims to increase the airport's capacity to 45 million passengers a year and provide 85 parking for planes. More runways and another terminal will be opened with capacity to receive an additional 15 million passengers per year. The estimated cost is over VND19.3trn (USD848m) and will come from various sources. The CAA nominated the Airports Corporation of Vietnam…... [read more]
HCMC backs Tan Son Nhat airport expansion Van Nam HCMC - The government of HCMC on May 16 wrote to the Ministry of Transport throwing its weight behind a major plan to revise up the capacity of Tan Son Nhat International Airport to 45 million passengers a year. The city approved of construction of more taxiways, Terminal T4 with an annual capacity of 15 million passengers, more aircraft parking slots and a technical area north of the airport. As the current roads around the airport will not be able to meet a pickup in vehicle traffic which will be triggered…... [read more]
