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Vietnam expanding, upgrading international airports

By Adele C. Schwartz
ATW's Airports Today, October, 2009, p.6

Hanoi's Noi Ban International will get two new runways and other new facilities and its existing space will be renovated to handle 25 million annual passengers and 260,000 tons of cargo by 2020, the Vietnamese government said. The airport will be upgraded to A380 standards.

Tan Son Nhut International in Ho Chi Min City will be expanded and improved to handle 23.5 million passengers and 600,000 tons of cargo a year by 2015. Improvements also will be made to the airports serving Cam Rahn, Chu Lai, Cat Bi, Danang and Phu Bai.

Long Thanh International in Dong Nai Province will be Vietnam's largest when it is completed, the government said, with four runways and five terminals scaled to serve 100 million passengers and 5 million tons of cargo a year. New airports are being built at Phu Quoc, Long Thanh and Can Tho. No completion dates have been announced for these projects.

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