Vietnam Airport authorities are currently seeking central government approval for a plan to build another international airport in Vietnam’s Hanoi city in addition to the one currently operating in Noi Bai. However, it is rumored that the second Hanoi airport will be listed as domestic rather than international in the report submitted to the Vietnamese Prime Minister’s Ministry.
The primary objective is to increase the capacity of the air traffic to the capital to handle 130 to 150 million passengers per year by 2050, in order to meet expected domestic and international demand in the coming years. This project would be included in Vietnam’s overall airport system development plan for the period 2021-2030, looking ahead to 2050. The plan also includes expansion of two international airports for the Ho Chi Minh City area, Tan Son Nhat and Long Thanh International Airports
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) predicts that the aviation sector will fully recover from COVID by the end of 2023. The current Noi Bai International Airport in the Vietnamese capital was designed to handle 25 million passengers annually. However, since 2017, the number of transit passengers and cargo has exceeded the capacity limit every year, increasing by 10% year-on-year until 2020. Hence the need for the new airport to meet the rising demand in next few years is the need of the hour.
