Hello Everyone,

I know this subject has been talked about a bit. I am just curious, does anyone know when the new Tan son nhat new terminal is set to be completed?
I visited Vietnam in december of 06 and it was still under construction. Since today it is May 5, 2007 I was wondering if anyone knows the progress and how construction is going? Thanks.

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according to my uncle,it is 75% completed,and is scheduled to operate in Q4 this year.

according to my uncle,it is 75% completed,and is scheduled to operate in Q4 this year.

actually, the airport is already finished with the construction. The dropped off bridge to the terminal is about done as well. They are moving and setting up equipments inside the terminal, also setting up shops and what not. I have some pictures, but don't know how to post them.

actually, the airport is already finished with the construction. The dropped off bridge to the terminal is about done as well. They are moving and setting up equipments inside the terminal, also setting up shops and what not. I have some pictures, but don't know how to post them.

May I help you; I had the same problem, but now I know how to post pics:
1. go to http://photobucket.com/
2. press "join now"
3. create your own username and password
4. retype your password
5. press next step
6. follow the instuctions
7.then you can start to upload the pictures at photbucket
8. after uploaded, go back to skyscraper city and go to the last task/topic and press "quote"
9. then a new window opens, quote the topic/taks you have chosen and press on the post-card icon, enter the url-address of your picture which is shown at photobucket.com
10 press submit reply

good luck!

can you take that terminal from the ground? front view and not side view .....i don't deal with that kind of crap.....thank you!

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can you take that terminal from the ground? front view and not side view .....i don't deal with that kind of crap.....thank you!

I am not sure what crap you are referring to, but here is the closest I could get to a frontal photo of the new terminal. I took this a month ago, and there is still a high wall in front of the terminal that makes it difficult to see the terminal from the front at ground level.
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this is the side view.....but thank you!

testing

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thank you everyone for your contribution to this thread. Looking at the pictures it looks like the terminal is almost complete. I can't wait to see it open when I go to VN later this year.

the old and the new are not connected?
what's with the space in between...build something big there and join the 2 terminals together.......I say a grand hall with a water fountain and lots of naked statues.

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ozzie, now that you inherited all of my KunFu skills; dont forget to drop a thanks note to your master, OKEY, JoSEY.

why did they not build a terminal to serve for both int'l and domestic flights? I don't like the idea to keep the old one for domestic in the near future while the new one just for int'l flights...two different architectural designs next to each other look chaotic...however, the new terminal is nice.

You know why they must build it separately?

In the int'l terminal, ppl who don't board the flight couldn't go inside the building, oterwise it will be stuffed with thousands of delegation of relatives, friends who want to greet their family from abroad.

In the regional one, they are allowed to do so. Anyone been to TSN will understand what i'm talking about.

why did they not build a terminal to serve for both int'l and domestic flights? I don't like the idea to keep the old one for domestic in the near future while the new one just for int'l flights...two different architectural designs next to each other look chaotic...however, the new terminal is nice.

The government would like to build a new international airport at Long Thanh in Dong Nai Province. Therefore the new terminal at TSN will probably be turned into a domestic terminal and the current domestic terminal will be torn down. There is a thread about the new terminal (started by tq) at
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=465621

lol...thank u for linking my thread :nuts:

lol Thanks NguyenD

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So now the south has a real international terminal , however in my opinion from the look outside this one looks ugly :lol: .

The New International Terminal: The invested capital for this Terminal is around $260 million funded by Japan Government Official Development Assistance (ODA). Upon completion at the end of 2006, this four-story Terminal covers 100,000 square meters, with 8 air-bridge and state-of-art equipments have a capacity of 8 to 10 million international passengers per year.???
Will it be the new international terminal in the future?
http://www.business-in-asia.com/images/overlook-tsn.jpg

The New International Terminal: The invested capital for this Terminal is around $260 million funded by Japan Government Official Development Assistance (ODA). Upon completion at the end of 2006, this four-story Terminal covers 100,000 square meters, with 8 air-bridge and state-of-art equipments have a capacity of 8 to 10 million international passengers per year.???
Will it be the new international terminal in the future?
http://www.business-in-asia.com/images/overlook-tsn.jpg


this is a picture of the Noi Bai international airport in hanoi, not in saigon

NoiBai is one of the ugliest terminals in SEA

New update from the end of June (plz dont mind the date showed on the pics)

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looks like the new terminal is attached to the existing one. I am flying into saigon on august 4th!!!!

there's a small gap between the existing domestic terminal and the new one. But when completed,all the terminals will become a whole of course.

thank you for the photos.

hopefully the exterior of the building is deceiving....the interior in actuallity is much bigger?
I;ve beeen to many places, the outside of the structure looked small, but once you come inside you couldn't believe it was the same building.

I think this terminal is not too ugly, but I want it delicate more. I saw many terminals in America or France, it's very beautiful and delicate, like bird pinions. Maybe it was restricted by the backward structural in Viet Nam. Most of modern terminals around the world have so much glass and steel, that's why they look very tender and delicate, but also steady,too. And about our TSN, its exterior is not bad, but has so much concrete so that make it seems heavy and onerous.

The answer is always the same: lack of money.

looks like the new terminal is attached to the existing one. I am flying into saigon on august 4th!!!!

The new terminal and the old one is not attached to each other. If you look from outside of the terminals you will see two separate terminals. In the future I think the new terminal will serve as the International Terminal and the old one is for domestic flight. I haven't gotten a chance to come closer to peek inside the new terminal but I think it is small compare to other tiger countries, probably it is more modern than the old one though.

The new terminal and the old one is not attached to each other. If you look from outside of the terminals you will see two separate terminals. In the future I think the new terminal will serve as the International Terminal and the old one is for domestic flight. I haven't gotten a chance to come closer to peek inside the new terminal but I think it is small compare to other tiger countries, probably it is more modern than the old one though.

actually, they will connect each other to make domestic transfer to int'l flight and vice versa easier. Thang Long Int'l airport will replace tsn as the hub sometime in the far future hahaha

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well,that's a little low for a terminal. But at least it looks so world-class

Ga hành khách quốc tế mới sân bay Tân Sơn Nhất bắt đầu hoạt động
Cập nhật cách đây 4 giờ 38 phút
Quốc Minh


Nhà ga mới với các trang thiết bị hiện đại sẵn sàng phục vụ hành khách - Ảnh: Hải Triều
Sau 3 năm khởi công xây dựng (từ tháng 8.2004), nhà ga quốc tế mới của sân bay Tân Sơn Nhất đã được đưa vào khai thác. Tổng mức đầu tư của dự án đến hơn 3.200 tỉ đồng. Từ giữa tháng 8.2007, hành khách xuất nhập cảnh qua Tân Sơn Nhất không những cảm nhận sự hiện đại khang trang của nhà ga mới mà còn được cung cấp những dịch vụ và tiện ích tốt nhất theo tiêu chuẩn quốc tế.

Nhà ga có tổng diện tích 92.920m2, với 4 tầng, trong đó tầng trệt (diện tích 32.170m2) được bố trí 6 băng chuyền loại lớn, là khu vực dành cho hành khách đến nhận hành lý và làm thủ tục hải quan. Hành lý ký gửi của hành khách đi cũng được xử lý và phân loại chính xác theo các chuyến bay nhờ hệ thống phân loại hành lý hiện đại. Các tiện ích khác như quầy hướng dẫn, thông tin du lịch, dịch vụ ngân hàng đổi tiền... cũng được bố trí ở đây tạo điều kiện thuận lợi nhất cho hành khách.

Lầu 1 có 25.550m2 là phòng chờ ra máy bay được thiết kế hiện đại đầy đủ dịch vụ tiện nghi cho hành khách. Có 8 cửa ra máy bay bằng ống lồng đảm bảo phục vụ máy bay thân rộng như B747, B767, B777, A340. Lầu 1 cũng có các băng tải tự động dành cho hành khách nhập cảnh di chuyển từ ống lồng vào khu vực sảnh làm thủ tục cửa khẩu đến như nhà ga quốc tế của các nước khác. Nơi đây còn bố trí các quầy bán hàng miễn thuế, hàng lưu niệm, ngân hàng, điện thoại công cộng, sảnh đợi ra máy bay... Lầu 2 với 26.900m2 là nơi bố trí cho hành khách đi. Khách sẽ làm thủ tục tại sảnh chính, được bố trí 4 đảo với 80 quầy. Sau khi làm thủ tục hải quan và cửa khẩu, hành khách có thể tự do mua sắm tại các quầy hàng miễn thuế, hàng lưu niệm và sử dụng dịch vụ ngân hàng, điện thoại, phòng giữ trẻ, phòng gửi đồ... được bố trí dọc hành lang ra máy bay. Ngoài ra lầu 2 cũng có 4 băng tải dành cho người đi bộ, giúp hành khách di chuyển đến các sảnh đợi ra máy bay nhanh chóng; có 6 phòng dành cho khách VIP và khách hạng nhất.

Lầu 3 có diện tích 8.300m2 là nơi bố trí văn phòng của các hãng hàng không, khu vực dành cho khách bị trễ chuyến bay nghỉ ngơi với các dịch vụ như nhà hàng, cửa hàng bán đồ lưu niệm, khu giải trí. Bên ngoài lầu này là khu vực vẫy tiễn dành cho hành khách đi. Phía trước nhà ga mới là sân đậu ô tô rộng khoảng 30.000m2, có bố trí các trạm thu phí tự động tính tiền theo giờ. Trước đường vào nhà ga có hồ nước điều hòa với thể tích 13.000m3 giúp tạo cảnh quan và điều tiết nước trong mùa mưa.

Theo Cụm cảng hàng không miền Nam, các trang thiết bị hiện đại của nhà ga quốc tế mới phục vụ hoạt động xuất nhập cảnh có thể tiếp đón cùng lúc 20 chuyến bay vào giờ cao điểm. Sau khi cơ quan thường trực Hội đồng nghiệm thu nhà nước tổ chức kiểm tra hồ sơ và hiện trường, có văn bản xác nhận sự tuân thủ công tác quản lý chất lượng công trình xây dựng, và đồng ý cho vận hành thử hệ thống công nghệ, Cụm cảng hàng không miền Nam sẽ đưa nhà ga mới vào khai thác từ ngày 14.8.2007. Tất cả các chuyến bay của 5 hãng hàng không quốc tế khai thác tại nhà ga quốc tế mới trong tuần đầu tiên là Madarin Airlines, Tiger Airways, Shenzhen Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines và Uni Air. Toàn bộ các dịch vụ mặt đất cung cấp cho các hãng hàng không này đều do Công ty dịch vụ mặt đất Sài Gòn (SAGS) thuộc Cụm cảng hàng không miền Nam thực hiện. Dự kiến từ đầu tháng 9.2007, cụm cảng sẽ chính thức khai thác toàn bộ nhà ga quốc tế mới.

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this is so plain. besides neat , clean and modern, there's nothing to it.

I want the new long thanh to have an imprint, when u look at it u will know that;s a vietnamese airport.
it;s like theworld is following the same trend.....building big and modern, steel and glass. put something else to make it nice

100 statues of uncle Ho in all positions (xxs position too) Vn airport will be so unique and attract many tourists

this is so plain. besides neat , clean and modern, there's nothing to it.

I want the new long thanh to have an imprint, when u look at it u will know that;s a vietnamese airport.
it;s like theworld is following the same trend.....building big and modern, steel and glass. put something else to make it nice

100 statues of uncle Ho in all positions (xxs position too) Vn airport will be so unique and attract many tourists



How about incorporating unique Vietnamese architecture and Western architecture to design the Long Thanh International Airport? :)

this is so plain. besides neat , clean and modern, there's nothing to it.

I want the new long thanh to have an imprint, when u look at it u will know that;s a vietnamese airport.
it;s like theworld is following the same trend.....building big and modern, steel and glass. put something else to make it nice

100 statues of uncle Ho in all positions (xxs position too) Vn airport will be so unique and attract many tourists

Lets build it in French architecture. Then everyone will now it is Vietnamese.:)

u guys are nuts


I have many great sketches for long thanh airport, the thing is i'm not an architect,
no french, no western or chinese architecture. pure pure viet architecture

u guys are nuts


I have many great sketches for long thanh airport, the thing is i'm not an architect,
no french, no western or chinese architecture. pure pure viet architecture
hahah well scan them, and post them! :lol:

HCMC airport inaugurates new international terminal


Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport got a new international terminal Tuesday.
The first floor of the three-story terminal will be for arrivals and have anterooms, duty-free shops, and banking services.

The second will be for departures and have similar facilities.

It can handle 10 million passengers annually and will throw open its doors this week with five international carriers – Madarin Airlines, Tiger Airways, Shenzhen Airlines, Royal Brunei Airlines and Uni Air – beginning to use it.

From September the terminal will operate at full capacity and serve all 35 airlines flying to HCMC.

The Southern Airports Authority said the terminal could receive up to 20 flights at a time.

It cost over VND3.2 trillion (US$197.7 million) to build and was funded by Japanese Official Development Assistance.

The old terminal will be used for domestic flights.

Source: Thanh Nien, Tuoi Tre – Compiled by Tuong Nhi

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Since this new terminal has the capacity for 10 mil passengers/year for international flights, I think it would be a long way before the Vietnamese government is thinking about building the first phase of Long Thanh Int Airport.

http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Xa-hoi/2007/08/3B9F933A/

the new terminal look cheap

no plants . no flower.

poor

Although this post below has nothing to do with the new TSN airport, I don't know where else to post it so... But this might be of interest to some of you:

World's largest airplane to come to Viet Nam----------------------------------------------------------------


Airbus to deploy 2 A380s on Asian, US tours
Flightglobal.com 08/13/2007


Author: Victoria Moores

Airbus is continuing its A380 world tour with visits to Asia and the US planned between 30 August and 5 October.

During the demonstration tours, which will be separately performed by two aircraft, the A380 is scheduled visit Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Korea, as well as the US states of Connecticut, Kentucky and California.

The Asian tour will run between 30 August and 7 September. It will be performed by a Rolls-Royce Trent 900-powered A380, carrying serial number 007.

Arriving in Thailand on 31 August, the 520-seat aircraft will visit Bangkok and Chiang Mai airports. It is then scheduled to visit the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi from 2-3 September http://www.vietnamairlines.com/, before moving on to Hong Kong for Asian Aerospace between 3 and 5 September.
The Asian tour will conclude with a visit to Seoul in Korea between 5 and 7 September.

Engine Alliance GP7200-powered MSN009 will perform the US tour. It will visit Bradley International airport in Connecticut on 2-3 October, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International airport on 3–4 October and San Francisco International Airport in California on 4– 5 October.

As this aircraft is not equipped with a passenger cabin, Airbus says it will be put on static display at these airports. It adds that the US tour will form part of the ongoing route proving process for the Engine Alliance GP7200 on the A380.

Airbus says: "Both demonstration tours are part of the extensive campaign to prepare the A380 for a smooth entry into service. Operating under typical airline conditions, both aircraft will undergo airport compatibility checks, ground handling and maintenance procedures to confirm its readiness to enter service."

The A380, which has accumulated 173 orders from 14 customers to date, has visited more than 45 airports. Airbus says that by 2011, more than 70 airports will be ready for A380 operations.

http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Xa-hoi/2007/08/3B9F933A/

the new terminal look cheap

no plants . no flower.

poor



It is still better than the old terminal. I hope the people who work at the new terminal will provide a better and more professional customer service.

A smile to greet the tourists can take it a long way, regardless the tourists are Vietnamese or non-Vietnamese. :)

smile with vietnamese you get no money, so I think they will smile with foreigners and beat us with a stick

smile with vietnamese you get no money, so I think they will smile with foreigners and beat us with a stick


Overseas Vietnamese send back $4 Billion per year, excluding the money that we spend in Vietnam. That is a lots of money.

da tung di nhieu phi truong trong khu vuc chau a thai binh duong,nhin thay cai phi truong moi cua vietnam sao ma that vong wa.kuala lampur thi` la mot kiet tac nghe thuat voi mai vo`m tuyet dep,changi singapore va hongkong thi nhu mot khach san 5 sao.tham chi melbourne airport tuy nhin don gian va nho gon nhung van hon cai phi truong tsn.

con` so ve do lon thi phai noi la` lon hon TSN gap chuc lan, dien hi`nh la kuala lampur, muon di chuyen tu noi nay wa noi khac phai di bang train chu di bo ko biet sang hom sau toi chua.con nghe noi tui dubai dang chuan bi xay cai phi truong hoanh trang hon ca cua malay

thu' that neu vn co xay longthanh di chang nua thi cung chi co the sanh voi hk thoi,chu neu so voi tui malay hay dubai thi e la impossible:ohno:

đó là bởi vì TSN được xây ngay trong trung tâm thành phố nên đất có giới hạn. Nếu nhìn trên google map thì mới thấy là toàn bộ diện tích TSN chỉ bằng khoảng 1/4 Changi airport của Sing với KL airport mà thôi. Các bác nhà ta cũng đã tính là sau khi Long Thành được hoàn tất thì TSN sẽ trở thành domestic terminal only,cho nên theo tôi thì cái terminal mới này thật ra đã là ngon lành lắm rồi. Hãy nhìn thử cái Nội Bài mà xem,đất thì rộng,được xây mới vào lúc kinh tế đang phát triển (hoàn tất năm 2002 thì phải),vậy mà kết quả là ta được 1 trong những nhà ga xấu nhất châu Á. Nội Bài 2 thì ko biết bao giờ mới khởi công do còn mờ ám chuyện tiền bạc trong quá trình xây NB 1.

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peter i think you should flip this pic the other way around. the new terminal is on the right of the pic not left

Chinatown, u're so wrong, lên Google Earth mà coi, TSN mà được chút đất của khu quân sự phía đường Cộng Hòa hay phía Gò Vấp thì dư sức làm sân bay to. 2 đường băng 3000m là quá đủ, khỏi phải LThành Long Hải gì hết.

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nhung ma lam to qua trong tan son nhat thi nguoi ta khong co ngu duoc. nha cua ta ngay ben canh san bay, ngay nao ta cung thay may bay no bay, nhieu luc ngoi cau xin Chua cho no dung co rot, thoi se trung nha cua ta.

anh rot cho kheo nhe,
keo lam vao nha toi,
nha toi o cuoi chan doi,
co gian thien ly, co nguoi toi yeu

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cool your house is next to the Airport...you get to see the majestic scenery of planes taking off and landing like one of those scene in "Tha^`n Ba`i" with Cha^u Nha^.n Pha't and Lu*u DDu*'c Ho`a....lol
yea and good luck with your resting.

^^you need 4000m runways for a380, and there should be 3 to achieve 30mil+ annual passengers.
Length of runway 1 and 2
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^^ wiki stats: 3800 & 3000, i guess you need some extra cushion for contingency...
You are right, the length of white runway 1 is about 3600m and 2 is about 3000m, when length of white runway plus length of black begining and ending runway they are about 3600 and 4300m .

Old terminal
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New Terminal
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some pics of the new terminal:

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http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/94250_1179763275.jpg

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after i see this I must say they should destroy the old one and expand this one.......life is too short to look at small airports

More pics of the new terminal:

http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx?ArticleID=217093&ChannelID=11

after i see this I must say they should destroy the old one and expand this one.......life is too short to look at small airports

The old one is still in a good condition so there is no reason to knock it down. That would be a very big waste of money.

some pics of the new terminal:

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/69390_1186105531.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/96429_1181480853.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/82161_1186626340.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/67735_1183614502.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/94250_1179763275.jpg

Wow, these pictures are clear and nice. The new terminal is better than the old terminal.

Of coure it is better than the old terminal :lol: , :banana:

:) :bash: :wave:
http://item.slide.com/r/1/139/i/CULLEoW87z_BPrKdjrzyhS8KPe1YwrKh/

http://www.jetphotos.net/img/1/3/5/8/96429_1181480853.jpg

http://www.jetphotos.net/img/1/6/2/6/39936_1189216626.jpg

http://www.jetphotos.net/img/2/1/3/5/69390_1186105531.jpg

I've some photos of this new terminal, too.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6636/60353578fi2.jpg

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/364/76523472qp4.jpg

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5587/12061867lo6.jpg

beautiful

some further pics from the same source:

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/52125_1189660458.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/82234_1189002625.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z297/Fredi1978/73948_1189615153.jpg

Very modern, VN is getting therẹ

Very neat, but that lounge is so 1960-ish, can't even come up with smt better. :(

one thing worths mention that is the officers there now has very sleek & stylish costumes,not the "vừa dơ vừa hôi" army clothes like before. I really love it! (well,except only for those at the checkpoint still have the same old clothes)

In 2015, when the Long Thanh Airport opens, all of Tan Son Nhat's terminals will serve domestic passengers only.

who says that Long Thanh Internation Airport will operate in 2015? We even haven't got the render or any further details. And who will invest it

Tiến độ của sân bay Long Thành tới đâu rồi nhỉ, sao em thấy nhiều báo vẫn khẳng định đang xây dựng và đưa vào sử dụng từ sau 2010 :ohno: Có ai đi ngang qua khu này chụp được gì không.

Tiến độ của sân bay Long Thành tới đâu rồi nhỉ, sao em thấy nhiều báo vẫn khẳng định đang xây dựng và đưa vào sử dụng từ sau 2010 :ohno: Có ai đi ngang qua khu này chụp được gì không.

báo nào vậy ryon? vẫn là đồng cỏ xanh rì, sau 2010 tức là năm 2011 hoặc 2020,2100....

2015 is a dream.

- first the 53kgm highway must be built => status??
- b4 this highway is NOT finished no doozers and machines can go to the construction side = works can start soonest when highway is finished

the entire project costs 8bn (2phases) => fundings?

just for example the new Thai airport (which costs "only" 4bil usd) took 30yrs to plan and they had to construct it within 4yrs (to eradicate corruption if a new government would take over within the re-election period), now the entire airport has cracks everywhere, even the nice white floors 20% already all have cracks. also the baggage claim was a catastrophe in the beginning. it was also difficult to get a taxi to the airport as nobody wanted to go there. then they made a mess with the old domestic airport and the new international airport, so they made shuttle buses, millions of people stranded. but now everything is ok.

every big project in VN was/is dead:
- larkhall: sorry it still a never built, and the foundation is NOT done at all,
i only see dirt and a guard standing there to prevent people take pics:lol:
- bitexco (5yrs nothing happened), now i have hope
- Thu thiem 10yrs nothing happened, bridge is finished but construction on the side i c nothing
- thu thiem tunnel: i read that the concrete elements show cracks as well, life is exciting:ohno::ohno:
- M&C many yrs no movements, now i have hope
- tarzans avenue: now its a very nice parking lot, congratulations to the developper, really:ohno:
- the only big project which is going smoothly with no delay is the landmark in hanoi, they started many yrs after bitexco HCMC but construction is same or even more advanced then bitexco. congratulations to the developper:ohno:

Your report bring tears to my eyes. :cry::cry::cry:

Harsh but true.

yeah The Thai airport took nearly 35 years to complete.

same stories everywhere.

Plan for Long Thanh was approved in 2001 so I think in 2030 we may have it .

yeah The Thai airport took nearly 35 years to complete.

same stories everywhere.

Plan for Long Thanh was approved in 2001 so I think in 2030 we may have it .

I truly believe they can get it done by 2015-2017. What they really needs to do is to hire the outside developers and keep all the government officials the hell away from it and same goes with sub-contractors, workers and so on, if they don't do their jobs well you fired their a$$’ and get someone who will. When they started to understand that there are much to loose and also much to gain and that will eradicated most of the problems. The government is so corrupted from top to bottom; you just can’t have too many hands in the cookies jar.

Estimated passenger growth rate in Vietnam from 2010 - 2020: 15 - 20%,
They have to build LT Airport because otherwise TSN will be extremely overcrowed. Furthermore larger aircraft like the new Airbus A380 or the upgraded Boeing 747-8 cannot operate from TSN permanently.
Currently Vietnam Airlines operate only midsize aircraft like the Boeing 777-200ER, but it is expected that Vietnam Airlines soon will order the A380.
Personally I expect a delay of 2 - 4 years - meaning the LT airport will start around 2017.

Estimated passenger growth rate in Vietnam from 2010 - 2020: 15 - 20%,
They have to build LT Airport because otherwise TSN will be extremely overcrowed. Furthermore larger aircraft like the new Airbus A380 or the upgraded Boeing 747-8 cannot operate from TSN permanently.
Currently Vietnam Airlines operate only midsize aircraft like the Boeing 777-200ER, but it is expected that Vietnam Airlines soon will order the A380.
Personally I expect a delay of 2 - 4 years - meaning the LT airport will start around 2017.



Nothing for sure, Tan Son Nhat still has a lot of lands , and building a new terminal at Tan Son Nhat will be much much cheaper then Long Thanh . I read somewhere that there are still about 1500-2000 ha of land avaiable to expand TSN airport.

A new terminal at Tan Son Nhat airport costs only 500-800 millions USD and then the airport can still be used for the next 10-15 years without being overcrowded .

Maybe the goverment will choose that solution instead of Long Thanh .

Even if they build only phase 1 of Long Thanh , it will cost about 5 billions USD now , very expensive . With that money we can build the whole Metro system for Sai Gon , which is also very urgent now.

^^ Like I said before, the ministry of defence still hold the rights on those plots around TSN. You probalby can imagine that those plot are highly demanded, so I think that inside the ministry some corrupt officials really want to get those plots and then sell it to some developer for a higher price. Sure building a third terminal is cheaper. No argue
BTW First the land, on which the LT airport will be build, has to be "drained" before they can start to build on it.

Nothing for sure, Tan Son Nhat still has a lot of lands , and building a new terminal at Tan Son Nhat will be much much cheaper then Long Thanh . I read somewhere that there are still about 1500-2000 ha of land avaiable to expand TSN airport.

A new terminal at Tan Son Nhat airport costs only 500-800 millions USD and then the airport can still be used for the next 10-15 years without being overcrowded .

Maybe the goverment will choose that solution instead of Long Thanh .

Even if they build only phase 1 of Long Thanh , it will cost about 5 billions USD now , very expensive . With that money we can build the whole Metro system for Sai Gon , which is also very urgent now.

I don't think so. TSN airport has already been surrounded by residential area, which makes it very difficult to expand, like Gia Lam airport in Hanoi. From my point of view, TSN airport has been overloaded, and building a new Int Airport in Long Thanh is not unnecessary. however, in Vietnam the most difficult thing for any big infrastructure project is to get fund. Government alone can not afford all of highways, international seaports, airports...kind of thing. Recently they are trying to make policies that encourage private sectors to invest more in infrastructure.
Anyway, hopefully the 1st phase of Long Thanh International airport will be completed within 2010-2015.

Does SG have not any alternative airfields within the city that could be upgraded for commercial use?

Hanoi has several airfields that will turn into small commercial airports in the future such as Hoa Lac, Mieu Mon and Bach Mai. As far as I know, Gia Lam is already being upgraded untill 2015 to serve for domestic/ low-cost flights.

^^ Like I said before, the ministry of defence still hold the rights on those plots around TSN. You probalby can imagine that those plot are highly demanded, so I think that inside the ministry some corrupt officials really want to get those plots and then sell it to some developer for a higher price. Sure building a third terminal is cheaper. No argue
BTW First the land, on which the LT airport will be build, has to be "drained" before they can start to build on it.

I don't think any idiot would want to buy lands around the airport unless it's facing Truong Son strêêt
the values around there are very low, you cannot build anything high, If you build villas, rich people aren't stupid to buy houses right next to the airport.
note. from Ngâ 6 GOvap... you can practically touch the planes when they're landing

Those guy are thinking in a long term, they think that one day a fully expanded LT airport might even take over the domestic traffic. Then TSN will be closed and that land will become top prime land - close to the city center of a then ??? expanded Saigon. Those corrupt officials can be very "long term thinking", unlike many democrats, who only eye for the next elections.
BTW are there any render of LT airport yet?

Does SG have not any alternative airfields within the city that could be upgraded for commercial use?

Hanoi has several airfields that will turn into small commercial airports in the future such as Hoa Lac, Mieu Mon and Bach Mai. As far as I know, Gia Lam is already being upgraded untill 2015 to serve for domestic/ low-cost flights.

The only worth mentioning airfield in the vicinity of Saigon besides TSN is Bien Hoa airport (about 25km north of Saigon), which used to be the major military airport for both South VN and US Air Forces when the war was going on. Except for B-52 :lol::lol::lol:, this airport handled most of military planes involved in VN war. At that time, it was the busiest airport in the world.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Bien_Hoa_Air_Base-aerial.jpg
(Runway: 3,048 m; surface: concrete - Wikipedia)
However, I’m not too sure if it is still serviceable or not. After the fall of Saigon regrettably most of invaluable electronics equipments and aviation support systems were either destroyed or rendered useless - due to stupidity, greed, ignorance or all of the above. :bash: :ohno::ohno::ohno:

:)

Even if they haven't been destroyed, I think it's better to centralize the air traffic into 2 airports.

[The US forces sent in many pioneer units to destroy the remaining installations in many US/ARVN bases. In some cases the advancing VPA was only a few minutes away. The Americans are lucky to be able to destroy "Little Pentagon" and the nearby prison. If the communists would have been able to secure the prison than the world would have know that Abu-Ghuraib/Quantanamo was not the first time... the communists were not the only ones, who used "advanced interrogation methods"....]

Those guy are thinking in a long term, they think that one day a fully expanded LT airport might even take over the domestic traffic. Then TSN will be closed and that land will become top prime land - close to the city center of a then ??? expanded Saigon. Those corrupt officials can be very "long term thinking", unlike many democrats, who only eye for the next elections.
BTW are there any render of LT airport yet?

I learned this from Jaro and let me say this

big cities in the world usually have 2 or more airports........just in case (of everything)

So I don't think they would close Tan SOn NHat, And I don't recommend it
like the previous fire in Tansonnhat, if they didn't have the new terminal, everything would grind to halt.....
You don't know the layout of Saigon dude

^^ Read my post carefully, before you reply: "I think it's better to centralize the air traffic into 2 airports"
I was referring to the fact that some people want to see Saigon having more than 2 airports. That's not very practicable. Furthermore a fully expanded LT airport will have several terminals, which can operate inderpendent.

what's this?

Those guy are thinking in a long term, they think that one day a fully expanded LT airport might even take over the domestic traffic. Then TSN will be closed and that land will become top prime land - close to the city center of a then ??? expanded Saigon. Those corrupt officials can be very "long term thinking", unlike many democrats, who only eye for the next elections.
BTW are there any render of LT airport yet?

what's this?

Read carefully & try to differ what part is my own opinion and what part is "quoted" by me! I said: "It's better to centralize the traffic into 2 airports." <------> my "quote": "Those corrupt officials think that one day TSN might be closed". OK?

I read the first one, and I believe the first one.,....because they usually came from the heart