Long Thanh airport work could be rescheduled as opening postponed to December

Contractors have sought extension of deadlines for six items under one of the components at the under-construction Long Thanh airport, but these will not delay the airport’s opening by year-end.

Part of component project 4, they were supposed to be completed by early June and mid-July, but the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked the Ministry of Construction to postpone them to the end of August.

The six include two projects for in-flight catering, a facility each for repairing and maintaining aviation equipment and providing ground services, and two maintenance hangars.

The CAAV said the delay is due to a revised schedule for the airport opening. Construction was to be completed in June, but has been postponed to September with commercial services beginning soon afterward.

Vietjet Air's aircraft maintenance hangar under construction at Long Thanh airport, May 2026. Photo by Phuoc Tuan

The airport is being built on 5,000 hectares in Long Thanh Ward, Dong Nai Province, at a cost of nearly $16 billion.

On June 1, the Long Thanh Airport Project Management Board said the first runway and apron are complete and handled a calibration flight that landed safely in December 2025, and the main construction packages are 64% complete.

The ACV has scheduled trial operations every month between September and November before the airport opens in December.