The Ministry of Transport is planning to upgrade and expand Con Dao Airport to receive large aircraft, ensuring passenger handling capacity.
The Ministry of Transport has just sent a document to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha regarding the investment plan for Con Dao Airport.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport proposed to continue implementing the project to upgrade and expand the airport area using public investment capital to soon put into operation code C aircraft (A320 and equivalent), serving the travel needs of people, ensuring absolute safety in operation and ensuring national defense and security.
The Ministry of Transport assessed this as an investment plan that ensures effective exploitation as well as effective use of capital with reasonable costs.
Currently, the investment project to renovate and upgrade the runway and taxiway at Con Dao Airport has been approved by the Ministry of Transport with a total investment of about 1,680 billion VND, and has been assigned by the Prime Minister as a medium-term public investment plan using state budget capital for the period 2020-2025.
The project will invest in expanding and upgrading the existing runway structure according to the planning with a size of 1,830mx45m; building a new parallel taxiway and connecting taxiways; adding items to ensure safety in night lighting operations; a synchronous landing equipment system to effectively exploit code C aircraft (such as A319, A320neo/ceo, B737-7/8 and equivalent) in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister and according to the planning. Thus, the investment scale of the project is basically consistent with the recommendations of international consultants to improve the operational capacity of Con Dao Airport.
Previously, based on the results of calculating the expected flight routes and operating conditions, international consultant ADPi (France) concluded that the current runway length (1,830m) of Con Dao Airport is sufficient to receive and effectively operate most types of code C aircraft operated by Vietnamese airlines, except for A321 aircraft that must reduce commercial load.
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Airlines are advised to operate medium-sized code C aircraft (such as A320ceo/neo, A319, B737-7/8...) to ensure the highest operational efficiency as well as infrastructure investment efficiency, ensuring the operation of all domestic routes in Vietnam and the possibility of operating some international routes to Southeast Asia and North Asia.
Regarding works ensuring flight operations, according to current regulations, Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation (VATM) is responsible for investing, upgrading, and expanding works and technical infrastructure ensuring flight operations at Con Dao Airport.
Regarding civil aviation projects, the leaders of the Ministry of Transport said that in the period up to 2030, it is necessary to research and invest in building a new civil aviation area (passenger terminal, parking lot, synchronous technical infrastructure) with a capacity of about 2 million passengers/year, with an estimated investment cost of about 2,100 billion VND under the public-private partnership (PPP) method.
Therefore, the Ministry of Transport recommends that the Prime Minister direct the People's Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province to study and develop a project to invest in a civil aviation area under the PPP partnership method to promptly report to the Prime Minister for permission to implement, meeting the local air transport needs./.
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