HCMC – Lam Dong Province has asked the Government for approval of its plan to expand the Lien Khuong International Airport to increase its annual capacity to five million passengers by 2030.
The Central Highlands province proposed upgrading the airport’s runway, taxiways and apron to receive larger aircraft such as Airbus A380s and Boeing 787s, and building one more international terminal covering an area of 340 hectares.
The expansion project will cost some VND4.32 trillion and will be implemented under the public-private partnership format from 2023 to 2026.
The Lien Khuong airport is located in Duc Trong District and is 28 kilometers away from Dalat, a popular destination in the country. The airport can currently handle A320s, A321 and can serve two million passengers per year.
It has one runway that is 3,250 meters long and 45 meters wide and a passenger terminal covering an area of 1,000 square meters. In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in the country, the airport operated 15 domestic and international air routes, serving 2.1 million passengers annually.
