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A bird's eye view of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC - Photo: TL
Le Manh Hung, general director of Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), told the Daily that entities under the ministry were expected to transfer the land plot near the aircraft parking area of the airport to the Ministry of Transport before April 30 in preparation for the expansion.
ACV calculates the 7.63 hectares will be enough for 10 aircraft to park and a new taxiway in the country’s biggest airport in Tan Binh District. After the transfer, the corporation needs around one year to design, map out a construction plan and build the new taxiway and the expanded parking area.
However, ACV said the additional land plot would help ease overload at Tan Son Nhat but would not meet all the demand for air transportation activities there.
ACV said to serve 26 million passengers per year, the airport would have its domestic and international terminals expanded in addition to a space big enough for 60-65 planes to park, up from the current 40.
ACV will be able to widen the parking area at Tan Son Nhat to accommodate some 21 more planes if all the land plots in the airport and part of the land under management of the Ministry of National Defense are used.
Le Trong Sanh, former head of the flight management department at Tan Son Nhat, said this airport would have an additional parking area for at least 30 aircraft if local authorities reclaimed the 157-hectare land plot already allocated for a golf court in the airport’s buffer zone.
As planned, the domestic terminal of Tan Son Nhat will be expanded by 2,000 square meters to handle up to 4,500 passengers every hour or 12 million guests per year.
Last year, 20 million passengers went through Tan Son Nhat, the figure that local aviation authorities had aimed for 2015.
ACV said the expansion of both domestic and international terminals would enable the airport to serve an additional six million passengers per year.
The airport now services less than 50 airlines.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
