Expanded plan for Tan Son Nhat Airport (Photo tuoitreonline) HCM City (VNA) - Thecapacity of Tan Son Nhat International Airport will double as many projects toexpand it and ease traffic congestion have been announced, a high rankingofficial said.
“Tan Son Nhat airport needs to be upgraded tohandle between 40 and 50 million passengers each year,” Deputy Prime MinisterTrinh Dinh Dung stressed at a meeting between Government and localadministrations last week.
The most significant headway for expansionefforts was made after the Ministry of Defense agreed to move all militarytraining operations out of the three major air hubs - Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai,and Da Nang airports, according to Lai Xuan Thanh, Director of the CivilAviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
The acquired military land will be used tobuild an additional runway, allowing the airport to gradually increase itscapacity to 38 million passengers per year by 2019, Thanh said.
At the same time, the aviation industry hasimplemented a parallel flight route North to South and shifted from flightequipment to satellite by the end of November 2016. That has reduced 24 percent of waiting for flights and 42 per cent of flying times.
“The aviation industry will try to seekinvestment to upgrade the airport,” Thanh said.
The ministry of Transport instructed theAirports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to expand current T2 internationalterminal to accommodate three million additional passengers, raising the totalcapacity of its two terminals to 28 million.
A 21-hectare area of military land will behanded over to the Ministry of Transport to expand Tan Son Nhat’s current jetparking space and allow for up to 96 planes to park at a time.
A new mixed-use terminal with a capacity often million passengers per year is expected to commence construction in thefirst quarter of 2017 and be completed within 12 months, according to CAA. Theterminal will be built over three hectares of former military land.
Upon its completion, the three terminals ofTan Son Nhat airport will boast a total design capacity of 38 millionpassengers a year.
A plan is also taking shape to erect a fourthterminal, expected to span 15 hectares over current military lands and serve upto ten million passengers per year, raising Tan Son Nhat’s capacity to 48million, CAA estimates.
“To increase capacity for Tan Son NhatAirport, local authorities must review and set a compensation plan,” DeputyMinister of Transport Nguyen Nhat told the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
But Nhat noted that this will depend on howHCM City invests and improves its traffic situation to the airport.
“It is not so difficult to invite investorsfor Tan Son Nhat Airport’s expansion but the most important thing is how toarrange land funds for more transport roads,” he added.
Tran Doan Mau, Director of the SouthernAirports Authority, suggested establishing ’satellite’ transfer stationslocated near Tan Son Nhat airport to ease overcrowding in its terminals.
“The stations would serve as satelliteterminals, with fully integrated information desks, parking lots, check-incounters, and waiting rooms for passengers to await their flights.
Shuttle buses would run between these stationsand the airport to transfer passengers directly to their boarding gates,” hesaid.
Possible locations for these stations includeGia Dinh Park and Hoang Hoa Tham Street, 500 meters away from the airport.
“Such stations can be built in six months at acost of 500-700 billion VND (22-31 million USD), compared to 3-4 trillion VND(134-179 million USD) and three years to build a full terminal,” he explained.
With less than one month away from thecountry’s biggest holiday season of the year, Lunar New Year, Tan Son Nhatairport is expecting an influx of passengers in the weeks to come.
The airport is expected to welcome over 2.5million passengers between January 20 and February 10. Nearly 800 fights willgo through the airport on a single day during the season’s peak, ACV said, withthe number of daily passengers reaching over 123,000, an increase of more than11,000 passengers from 2016.
Tan Son Nhat is already overstrained by thesteady flow of flights and passengers. It received more than 26.5 millionpassengers last year and the number is expected to increase to around 31million this year, making an upgrade an even more urgent task.
Rapid growth of the local aviation market inrecent years, with 650-750 flights coming and leaving the airport every day,has overwhelmed airports in major cities and led to regular flight delays andcancellations.
Figures from the CAAV showed that more than20,000 flights, or 15.8 percent, were delayed, in the first six months thisyear. That was up slightly from 15 percent a year ago.
Tan Son Nhat has more problems to deal withapart from rapid passenger growth, with flooding right on the tarmac andtraffic congestion on the streets outside causing chronic delays.
With 32 million passengers passing through theairport in 2016, the airport is far surpassing its design capacity of 25million air travelers.
With eight more years until Long ThanhInternational Airport in the nearby Dong Nai Province, the designated successorof Tan Son Nhat, is expected to be completed, officials are working on a way tohelp alleviate the load.-VNA
“Tan Son Nhat airport needs to be upgraded tohandle between 40 and 50 million passengers each year,” Deputy Prime MinisterTrinh Dinh Dung stressed at a meeting between Government and localadministrations last week.
The most significant headway for expansionefforts was made after the Ministry of Defense agreed to move all militarytraining operations out of the three major air hubs - Tan Son Nhat, Noi Bai,and Da Nang airports, according to Lai Xuan Thanh, Director of the CivilAviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
The acquired military land will be used tobuild an additional runway, allowing the airport to gradually increase itscapacity to 38 million passengers per year by 2019, Thanh said.
At the same time, the aviation industry hasimplemented a parallel flight route North to South and shifted from flightequipment to satellite by the end of November 2016. That has reduced 24 percent of waiting for flights and 42 per cent of flying times.
“The aviation industry will try to seekinvestment to upgrade the airport,” Thanh said.
The ministry of Transport instructed theAirports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to expand current T2 internationalterminal to accommodate three million additional passengers, raising the totalcapacity of its two terminals to 28 million.
A 21-hectare area of military land will behanded over to the Ministry of Transport to expand Tan Son Nhat’s current jetparking space and allow for up to 96 planes to park at a time.
A new mixed-use terminal with a capacity often million passengers per year is expected to commence construction in thefirst quarter of 2017 and be completed within 12 months, according to CAA. Theterminal will be built over three hectares of former military land.
Upon its completion, the three terminals ofTan Son Nhat airport will boast a total design capacity of 38 millionpassengers a year.
A plan is also taking shape to erect a fourthterminal, expected to span 15 hectares over current military lands and serve upto ten million passengers per year, raising Tan Son Nhat’s capacity to 48million, CAA estimates.
“To increase capacity for Tan Son NhatAirport, local authorities must review and set a compensation plan,” DeputyMinister of Transport Nguyen Nhat told the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
But Nhat noted that this will depend on howHCM City invests and improves its traffic situation to the airport.
“It is not so difficult to invite investorsfor Tan Son Nhat Airport’s expansion but the most important thing is how toarrange land funds for more transport roads,” he added.
Tran Doan Mau, Director of the SouthernAirports Authority, suggested establishing ’satellite’ transfer stationslocated near Tan Son Nhat airport to ease overcrowding in its terminals.
“The stations would serve as satelliteterminals, with fully integrated information desks, parking lots, check-incounters, and waiting rooms for passengers to await their flights.
Shuttle buses would run between these stationsand the airport to transfer passengers directly to their boarding gates,” hesaid.
Possible locations for these stations includeGia Dinh Park and Hoang Hoa Tham Street, 500 meters away from the airport.
“Such stations can be built in six months at acost of 500-700 billion VND (22-31 million USD), compared to 3-4 trillion VND(134-179 million USD) and three years to build a full terminal,” he explained.
With less than one month away from thecountry’s biggest holiday season of the year, Lunar New Year, Tan Son Nhatairport is expecting an influx of passengers in the weeks to come.
The airport is expected to welcome over 2.5million passengers between January 20 and February 10. Nearly 800 fights willgo through the airport on a single day during the season’s peak, ACV said, withthe number of daily passengers reaching over 123,000, an increase of more than11,000 passengers from 2016.
Tan Son Nhat is already overstrained by thesteady flow of flights and passengers. It received more than 26.5 millionpassengers last year and the number is expected to increase to around 31million this year, making an upgrade an even more urgent task.
Rapid growth of the local aviation market inrecent years, with 650-750 flights coming and leaving the airport every day,has overwhelmed airports in major cities and led to regular flight delays andcancellations.
Figures from the CAAV showed that more than20,000 flights, or 15.8 percent, were delayed, in the first six months thisyear. That was up slightly from 15 percent a year ago.
Tan Son Nhat has more problems to deal withapart from rapid passenger growth, with flooding right on the tarmac andtraffic congestion on the streets outside causing chronic delays.
With 32 million passengers passing through theairport in 2016, the airport is far surpassing its design capacity of 25million air travelers.
With eight more years until Long ThanhInternational Airport in the nearby Dong Nai Province, the designated successorof Tan Son Nhat, is expected to be completed, officials are working on a way tohelp alleviate the load.-VNA
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