Passengers walk at T3 terminal of Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCMC, June 2025. Photo by Hoang Phong
Nearly four months after it opened Tan Son Nhat Airport’s Terminal T3 in Ho Chi Minh City is set to handle flights by all domestic carriers except low-cost carrier Vietjet.
Vietnam Airlines, which is already operating at T3, will be joined by Bamboo Airways on Aug. 18, Pacific Airlines and VASCO on Aug. 19 and Vietravel Airlines on Aug. 21, the carriers announced on their Facebook pages.
Vietjet will not shift its domestic flights to the new terminal as initially planned and will remain at T1.
From Aug. 18 to 25 Bamboo Airways passengers who miss their flights but arrive at Terminal 3 within 20 minutes after the scheduled departure time will be eligible for a free ticket change to the next available flight on the same route.
Tan Son Nhat airport’s T3, which opened on April 19, is designed to handle 20 million passengers annually and around 7,000 passengers per hour.
Its construction cost nearly VND11 trillion (US$430 million).
Its four floors and one basement cover 112,500 square meters and have 90 check-in counters, 20 self-service baggage-drop counters and 42 automated check-in kiosks, all integrated with Vietnam’s population database.
