A third terminal will be added to Ho Chi Minh City’s (HCMC) Tan Son Nhat International Airport to expand its passenger capacity by about 80 per cent by 2024. Construction on the terminal will commence in September 2022.
The USD470 million project was initially approved in 2020 but issues in land acquisition as well as COVID-19 related restrictions in Vietnam delayed work.
The airport currently has two terminals with a capacity to accommodate around 25 million people a year. However, the airport has been operating over capacity with passenger traffic reaching 40 million in 2019. Once operational, the third terminal will increase total capacity to 45 million annual passengers.
