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Tan Son Nhat Airport
Airport Directory » Viet Nam » Ho Chi Minh City » Tan Son Nhat AirportTan Son Nhat International Airport (IATA: SGN, ICAO: VVTS) (Vietnamese: Sân embayment Quốc tế Tân Sơn Nhất), is Vietnam's biggest international airport in full term of area (800 ha/1,977 acres compared with 650 ha/1,606 acres of Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport and Danang's Da Nang International Airport). It has a deal capacity of 15-17 million riders per yr, compared with the capacity of Hanoi - Noi Bai airport of 6 million riders and Da Nang's 2 million riders). It is also the biggest airport of Vietnam in terms of riders dealt (with an judged figure of over 11 million riders per yr in 2007, more than a one-half of that of Vietnam's all airports), assists Ho Chi Minh City as good as Dong Nam Bo in southern Vietnam. Its IATA codification SGN was inferred from the town's former name of Saigon.
History
Tan Son Nhat International Airport has its beginnings in the early 1930s, when the French Colonial regime build a little airport with unpaved landing track, known as Tân Sơn Nhất Airfield near the small town of Tan Son Nhat. By mid-1956, with US help, a 7,200-foot (2,190 m) landing track had been built and the field near Saigon got known as South Vietnam's principal international gateway. During the Vietnam War (or Second Indochina War), Tan Son Nhut Air Base (then using the alternative enchantment Tân Sơn Nhứt) was an eminent installation for both the US Air Force and the (VNAF). Before 1975, Tan Son Nhat International Airport had been 1 of the busiest airbases in the world.
On December 9, 2004, United Airlines got the 1st U.S. air hose to wing to Vietnam since Pan Am's last voyage during the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. UA 869 (functioned by a Boeing 747/400) district at Ho Chi Minh City, the depot of the voyage that ran from San Francisco via Hong Kong. on October 29, 2006, this service was exchanged from San Francisco to Los Angeles with a halt in Hong Kong, functioning as UA 867 (also using a Boeing 747/400). In 2009 the service UA 869 has restarted again from San Francisco via Hong Kong International. In 2006, this airport at Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City assisted about 8.5 million riders (compared with 7 million in 2005) with 64.000 aircraft motilities . HCM - Tan Son Nhat Airport has late accounted for almost 2 3rd of the arrivals and going at Vietnam's international gateway airports. .
Due to increasing claim (approximately 15%-20% per annum), this airport has been continuously spread out by the Southern Airports Authority. Tan Son Nhat International Airport assisted 13 million riders in 2008 compared to 11 million in 2007. According to the new enlargement program denoted by the Vietnamese authority, the airport shall be enlarged to furnish installations and infinite for around 70 aircraft to bring down by 2015, and to deal 23.5 million riders and 600,000 metric ton of freight per annum.
New International Terminal
Passport Check in the new depot, 13 August 2007Front position of International Terminal in Tan Son Nhat International AirportA new international depot funded by Japanese ODA and build by a pool of 4 Japanese contractors (KTOM, abbreviation of four contractors's names: Kajima - Taisei - Obayashi - Maeda), opened in September 2007 with a capacity for 8-10 million riders a yr, hence giving the airport a aggregative one-year capacity of 15-17 million riders. The old depot is currently used for domestic voyages only. After 2015, when Long Thanh International Airport is finished, Tan Son Nhat will assist domestic riders only.
The international depot is open 24 60 minutes a solar day.
Facilities
Following the opening of its new international depot in September 2007, HCM - Tan Son Nhat has 2 major depot constructions with separate subdivisions for international and domestic voyages. Four jetways were added in the late 1990s prior to which aircraft had to use distant parkland and riders were reassigned to/from the depot by shuttle bus. The capacity of the new depot, one time to the full finished, shall be 8 million riders per annum. After 2015, when Long Thanh International Airport is finished, Tan Son Nhat will assist domestic riders only.
The Prime Minister of Vietnam by Decision 1646/TTg-NN has okayed the addition of 30 hectares (74 acres) of adjacent area to continue the apron and to construct a freight depot due to the rapid increase of rider (which will make to 11 million in 2007 and is anticipated to attain 17 million in 2010, compared to 7 million and 8.5 million in 2005 and 2006 severally) and shipment volume at this airport
Arrivals and Departures are split across 2 flooring
Arrivals
Arriving riders set down through jetways, although some voyages may be parked off from the depot and claim a short walk to in-migration that is turn up on the upper stage. Immigration desks are available for both ASEAN and non-ASEAN inhabitants, who mostly moldiness be in ownership of a visa prior to reaching, or do progress programmes to pick 1 up in the reaches area prior to uncluttering Customs. There are public convenience and duty free stores available in the luggage hallway.
A currency exchange desk is turn up like a shot past the Customs desk. There are no installations for non-passengers to move into the reaches area and they are limited to running across riders outside the depot. It is here that riders is able to lift up cab, cycles or a coach into the town.
The air-conditioned airport coach, service figure 152, is the inexpensive fashion into Ho Chi Minh City. It is particularly utile for holidaymakers since it goes across most of the major hotels alongside De Tham Street and Dong Khoi Street.
Departures
Only riders are let inside the depot.
Passengers move into the domestic depot on the lower stage where check-in formalities are finished; in the new international depot going are on the upper stage. Trolleys are not allowed past the security checkpoints, but little trolley car are usually available one time the checkpoint has been cleared.
International riders complete recommendation command formalities and then go across into the departure lounge. The new depot incorporates several stores and eating house, largely bear down Western monetary values for points, as good as the aggregative of four business-class lounges, 1 of them is functioned by Vietnam Airlines and 1 of them is functioned by Star Alliance. Flights are usually named and riders take to present themselves at the entrance for luggage projection screening and boarding, usually through jetways.
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