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PM approves Dien Bien Airport expansion project

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to expand Dien Bien Airport in the northwestern province of Dien Bien with the aim of increasing its capacity to 500,000 passengers per year.
PM approves Dien Bien Airport expansion project ảnh 1The Dien Bien Airport, 500 kilometers to the west of Hanoi, is the largest and the only commercial airport in the northwestern region of Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)
Dien Bien (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to expand DienBien Airport in the northwestern province of Dien Bien with the aim of increasingits capacity to 500,000 passengers per year.

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) is the investor ofthe project which is estimated to cost 1,547 billion VND (67 billion USD).

The airport will be upgraded to receive large aircraft suchas Airbus A320s and A321s and those with equivalent size.

The expansion project will be implemented in 34months. 

The Dien Bien Airport, 500 kilometers to the west of Hanoi,is the largest and the only commercial airport in the northwestern region ofVietnam.   

It was originally a military airport built in 1954. It begancommercial operations in 1994. It has one 1,830-meter runway that can handleshort-haul ATR72 and smaller aircraft. Its current capacity is 300,000passengers per year./.
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