Pleiku Airport planning to reach capacity of 4 million passengers/year by 2030
Pleiku Airport is growing very rapidly, some main construction items are overloaded and the exploitation volume exceeds previous forecasts, in which in 2019 the passenger output reached 726,526 passengers/year).
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| Pleiku Airport – Gia Lai. |
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has just submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Transport to consider approving the planning of Pleiku - Gia Lai Airport for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050.
This is an airport with a location and function in the national civil aviation network as a domestic airport; its nature of use is that of a shared civil and military airport.
According to the proposal, in the 2021-2030 period, Pleiku Airport will be a 4C airport according to the standard code of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and a level II military airport; with a capacity of 4 million passengers/year and 4,500 tons of cargo/year.
Pleiku Airport has 14 aircraft parking positions; aircraft type is A320/A321 and equivalent or lower; landing approach: CAT I.
Vision to 2050, Pleiku Airport will maintain the 4C airport level and level II military airport; capacity of 5 million passengers/year and 12,000 tons of cargo/year; total number of aircraft parking positions is 18 positions; aircraft type is A320/A321 and equivalent or lower; landing approach method: CAT I.
In the period 2021-2030, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam proposed planning the runway 09-27, size 3,000m x 45m (extending the end of the existing runway 27 by 600m), 7.5m wide material shoulder, ensuring effective commercial exploitation of aircraft code C and equivalent. The vision to 2050 remains the same as the construction scale in the previous phase.
Regarding the passenger terminal (land plot B-01), in the period 2021-2030, Pleiku Airport is planned to have a new passenger terminal with a capacity of 4 million passengers/year. Vision to 2050 will expand the new passenger terminal with a capacity of 5 million passengers/year (reserve land for development when needed).
Cargo terminal (land area B-02), in the period 2021-2030, the new cargo terminal is planned to handle 4,500 tons of cargo/year. With a vision to 2050, Pleiku Airport will expand the new cargo terminal to handle 12,000 tons of cargo/year.
During the period 2021-2030, Pleiku Airport is planned to reserve a location for building a hangar at the reserve land for development A-17, investing in the synchronous construction of a hangar and apron in front of the hangar when needed; the vision to 2050 will keep the same location as the period to 2030, investing in the synchronous construction of 1-2 hangars and aprons in front of the hangar when needed.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said that the Pleiku Airport Planning dossier for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, was researched by the consulting unit based on statistics and analysis of existing exploitation data of airports in Vietnam, economic growth data, tourism, trade and services and industries that affect the development of passengers at Pleiku Passenger Port, development planning orientations of industries, provinces, regions and the whole country to study forecast data, as a basis for planning the scale of functional areas for the airport.
The selected options have been carefully researched by consultants, ensuring optimality in the planning of functional areas, saving construction costs and feasibility in the construction investment plan.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam also proposed that the Ministry of Transport consider and work with the Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee to update the Pleiku Airport planning into the dossier adjusting the general planning of Pleiku City until 2045, which is being implemented by the locality.
In which, the proposed plan for Pham Ngoc Thach street is 10.5m wide for each lane, enough to divide into 3 lanes, between the two lanes of the road there is a 10.0m wide median strip with trees, the sidewalk width on each side is 3m wide.
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