Construction of Tan Son Nhat T3 terminal project to serve 20 million passengers per year begins

This is a domestic passenger terminal with a capacity of 20 million passengers per year, expected to be completed in early 2025, helping to increase the operating capacity at Tan Son Nhat airport to 50 million passengers per year.

The T3 terminal project includes three main items: a passenger terminal, a high-rise parking garage combined with non-aviation services, and a viaduct system in front of the terminal.

The total investment of the project is 10,990 billion VND. The capital to implement the project is mobilized from ACV's equity capital (70%) and commercial loans (30%).

The passenger terminal project has a scale of 1 basement and 4 floors above ground, with a total floor area of ​​112,500 m2.

The terminal has a linear shape similar to the existing terminal, designed into 2 separate departure and arrival levels. The terminal has 90 traditional airline check-in counters, 20 automatic bagdrop counters and 42 check-in kiosks, 27 boarding gates, 6 departure baggage handling islands and 10 arrival baggage return islands, and 25 passenger security control gates.

In particular, Terminal T3 is designed with 8 security control gates and a separate area to serve VIP, business class and priority guests.

The high-rise parking lot combined with non-aviation services is a complex of 2 basements, 2 common basements, 2 4-storey commercial office complexes and 3-storey motorbike parking lots connected by a bridge corridor, with a total floor area (including 2 basements) of 130,000 m2.

The elevated road system at the two station levels includes: the 2nd floor has a scale of 2-3 lanes, each lane is 3.5m wide; the 3rd floor has a scale of 2-5 lanes, each lane is 3.5m wide.

After completion, T3 passenger terminal will be a domestic passenger terminal with a capacity of 20 million passengers/year, serving 7,000 passengers/peak hour, operating all types of Code C and Code E aircraft, fundamentally solving the congestion situation at Tan Son Nhat airport.

Package No. 12 Construction and installation of equipment for passenger terminal T3 under the T3 Passenger Terminal Construction Project - Tan Son Nhat International Airport is expected to be constructed in 20 months (600 days), completed and put into trial operation in the beginning of the second quarter of 2025.