Da Nang (VNS/VNA) – Da Nang International Airport hosted 13.4 million passengers, of which 6.2 million were international arrivals, and landed 32,400 tonnes of cargo, earning total revenue of 1.6 trillion VND (64 million USD) in 2024.
Director of the Airports Corporation of Vietnam, Da Nang branch (ACV-Da Nang), Phan Kieu Hung gave the figures and added that the airport has been designed for handling 14 million passengers with a series of infrastructure upgrading and expansion projects in 2026-28.
He said 81,000 flights had arrived safely in 2024, of those 46% were international arrivals, while 43% of total cargo flights came from over seas.
The director added the construction of a new cargo terminal with a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year would begin in the third quarter of 2025, leading to increased capacity over the next decades.
The airport will also be improving the quality of services at the current Terminal 1, reaching four-star standard in 2025, while the new cargo terminal will be the first fully automatic operation in central Vietnam.
According to the airport authority, 40% of international flights in the first quarter of 2025 will be coming from the Republic of Korea (RoK).
Da Nang city’s tourism department, in co-operation with the Da Nang International terminal investment and operation JSC (AHT) and ACV Da Nang, has been pushing Da Nang as a ‘safe’, attractive and hospitable destination in 2021-25.
The airport was listed among the 100 best airports in the world in 2024 by the UK–based aviation consultancy Skytrax, while it was ranked among the top-five airports in terms of capacity, by Routes Asia 2024, able to manage up to 20 million passengers per year.
Da Nang has 24 direct air routes, of which 16 are international, hosting an average of 90 to 140 flights per day.
Air Premia, a Seoul-based airline, plans to start operating a new route connecting Incheon, the RoK, and Da Nang with four flights per week from the first quarter of 2025./.
