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Con Dao Airport to be expanded to serve 2 mln passengers per year

The airport on Con Dao Island, the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau, will be expanded and upgraded to better serve rising passenger demand and the operation of new-generation aircraft.
Con Dao Airport to be expanded to serve 2 mln passengers per year ảnh 1Planes park at Con Dao Airport (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The airport on Con Dao Island,the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau, will be expanded and upgraded tobetter serve rising passenger demand and the operation of new-generationaircraft.

In the adjusted airport planning by 2030 recently approved by Ministerof Transport Nguyen Van The, Con Dao Airport will have a capacity of 2 millionpassengers and 4,400 tonnes of cargo per year and be able to handle Code-C orequivalent aircraft.

A new passenger terminal is expected to be built tothe southeast of the existing facility. An area to the west of the passengerterminal has also been zoned for constructing a cargo terminal.

The zoned land area covers more than 181ha, including over104ha of the existing airport and 77ha of additional land. That consists of about52.5ha for civil aviation, 9.3ha for military aviation, and 119ha for joint use.

The Ministry of Transport said the growth of passengertraffic at Con Dao Airport has outpaced the prediction in the old planning, andthe current throughput has exceeded the existing terminal’s capacity.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, this airport stillserved 447,750 passengers in 2020, up 4.1 percent from 2019.

It was designed to handle ATR-72 and equivalent planes.However, carriers are set to gradually replace ATR-72, as well as A320 and A321,with new-generation jets like A319neo, A320neo, A321neo, and equivalentaircraft.

Given this, airport upgrade and expansion arenecessary, the ministry noted./.
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