Two new airports, in Van Don District in the northern province of Quang Ninh and in Phan Thiet City in the south-central province of Binh Thuan, will be inaugurated by the year 2020. The new openings are part of a Vietnamese government plan for air transport development, with a vision to have 28 operational airports by 2030. According to the plan, by 2020 Vietnam will have had a total of 13 domestic airports and ten international airdromes, including the four gateway airports of Noi Bai (Hanoi), Tan Son Nhat (Ho Chi Minh City), Da Nang and Cam Ranh. By 2030, there will have been 15 domestic airports and 13 international airports in Vietnam, with the addition of Long Thanh International Airport , which is planned for construction in 2019 in the southern province of Dong Nai, as the country’s fifth gateway airport. The government plan looks to put Vietnam in the leading four countries in Southeast Asia in terms of air transport volume by the year 2030, with a total fleet size of 400 modern aircraft. Quang Ninh’s Van Don District is one of three special administrative and economic zones Vietnam plans to develop that will incorporate specific policies and mechanisms in order to attract international investors. The special zones will function as a new model to stimulate growth and lure foreign investment, said Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung at a merger and acquisition forum last year. Phan Thiet is a popular resort city on the south-central… [Read full story]
Singapore's airport operator said Thursday it will demolish the city-state's terminal for budget airlines in September and replace it with a bigger facility amid surging travel demand. The tiny but affluent city-state welcomed a record 13 million overseas visitors last year, boosted in part by a boom in low-cost air travel. Construction of the new facility, called Terminal 4, will start next year, the Changi Airport Group said in a statement. It will have the capacity to handle 16 million passengers a year when it opens in 2017, more than double the seven million capacity of the current budget terminal.…... [read more]
The Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam plans to open new airports in Con Son, Ca Mau and Can Tho in the first quarter of this year. The move is in line with the country's socio-economic development strategy that focuses on rural areas and islands. Currently, the agency is investing in building new airports such as Chu Lai in Quang Nam province, Cam Ranh in Khanh Hoa province and Dong Hoi in Quang Binh province. Last year, the Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam upgraded and expanded its airport network. Fourteen out of 16 airports were renewed in an attempt…... [read more]
HCM CITY (VNS) — A 20-km section of an expressway being built to link HCM City with a proposed international airport in the neighbouring province of Dong Nai will open to traffic later this month, the builder has said. Le Manh Hung, head of the HCM City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Project, said a section linking the Eastern Ring Road (or the Second Ring Road) in HCM City's District 9 with National Highway 51 in Dong Nai would be usable from December 28. The expressway will be 55 km long in all, connecting HCM City with Long Thanh…... [read more]
New airport bus route put into service Le Anh HCMC - Southern Airport Transportation Joint Stock Co (SATSCO) on September 15 launched Bus Route No. 119 connecting Tan Son Nhat airport and Mien Tay Bus Station in Binh Tan District. The bus route operates from 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily with departures every 15 to 30 minutes. Traveling between the two destinations is 65 minutes and fares are VND12,000 (around 54 U.S. cents) for an under-five-kilometer trip and VND20,000 for a longer one. Buses of the new service will stop at major hospitals in HCMC. They include Cho Ray…... [read more]
A Vietnam Airlines jet prepares to land at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the Ministry of Transport, Tan Son Nhat is set to service 25 million passengers, its designed capacity, by 2020 and will then become overloaded. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG The Ministry of Transport has backed a plan to build a new airport to ease the burden on Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport despite the wishes of two aviation experts. The ministry on August 18 sent a report to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in response to two former aviation…... [read more]
