Long Thanh Airport: Thousands of people 'racing' before G-hour

VTV.vn - Nearly 14,000 personnel and more than 3,000 pieces of equipment are working day and night to ensure Long Thanh International Airport is ready to welcome its first flight on December 19, 2025.

Long Thanh International Airport's passenger terminal with a stylized lotus shape is gradually being completed.

About 14,000 experts, engineers, workers and more than 3,000 pieces of equipment are speeding up to complete items so that Long Thanh International Airport can welcome its first flight on December 19, 2025.

A representative of the Vietnam Airports Corporation (ACV), the investor of Long Thanh airport, said that currently, the key component project 3 is organizing construction simultaneously on the entire construction site in the spirit of "overcoming the sun, overcoming the rain, not losing to storms", "3 shifts, 4 crews", construction "through holidays, Tet, and days off" in accordance with the direction of the General Secretary and the Prime Minister.

The routes connecting to Long Thanh airport are gradually being completed.

Workers are installing the glass system at Long Thanh airport.

Workers install ramps to the aircraft.

The contractor consortium has mobilized hundreds of construction teams, nearly 14,000 experts, engineers, workers, laborers and about 3,000 construction equipment to speed up progress, ensuring that as planned, on December 19, Long Thanh airport will welcome its first flight.

Long Thanh Airport, covering an area of ​​5,000 hectares (in Long Thanh commune, Dong Nai province), started construction in early 2021. The project has a total investment of 336,630 billion VND, divided into 3 phases.

Phase 1 will invest in 1 runway and 1 passenger terminal along with synchronous auxiliary items with a capacity of 25 million passengers/year and 1.2 million tons of cargo/year.

When completed, Long Thanh airport will have 4 runways, 4 passenger terminals along with synchronous auxiliary items, with a capacity of 100 million passengers/year and 5 million tons of cargo/year.

Inside the passenger terminal of Long Thanh airport, contractors are speeding up the completion of the rough construction and starting to install equipment and machinery.

According to the design, the terminal has 32 runways, arranged at 40 parking positions, to accommodate Code C, E and F aircraft. Photo: ACV

Source: https://vtv.vn/san-bay-long-thanh-hang-nghin-nguoi-chay-dua-truoc-gio-g-100251202150621774.htm