The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) reported on July 20 that the construction site keeps an average of 7,170 direct workers but needs 1,500 to 2,000 more, concentrated on the passenger terminal, the internal airport roads and finishing work.
It has ordered contractors to raise the direct workforce to nearly 9,000 and add indirect staff to speed up construction, equipment installation, inspection and paperwork.
Component project 3, which covers the airport’s essential works, has reached nearly 78% of its contracted progress, with the main construction packages at close to 70%.
The passenger terminal, the largest building on the site, has passed 77% on finishing work, with crews plastering walls, waterproofing, painting, tiling and installing ceilings, partitions and interiors. It is due to be completed in September, ahead of three rounds of trial operations that ACV plans for September, October and November.
Long Thanh landed its first flights at a technical opening on Dec. 19, 2025, but scheduled passenger service has not begun. ACV is targeting commercial operation from Dec. 1.
The 2025 rainy season set some tasks back by two to four months, ACV said. It has told contractors to prioritize indoor work during heavy rain, keep materials and labor on standby, and install drainage channels, water-collection pits and backup pumps across the site.
Power from a 110 kV substation was energized into the airport’s receiving station in June, and ACV is now working with the Dong Nai Water Supply Joint Stock Company to bring water across the site.
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Workers build the roof of the Long Thanh airport terminal in Dong Nai City. Photo courtesy of ACV |
Long Thanh spans about 5,000 hectares in Dong Nai City, 40 km from Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport, and is the biggest and most expensive airport project in Vietnam’s history, built at a cost of VND336.63 trillion ($12.8 billion).
Phase one, designed for 25 million passengers and 1.2 million metric tons of cargo a year, is set to to ease chronic overcrowding at Tan Son Nhat.
A second phase due by 2035 would add another runway and terminal to lift capacity to 50 million passengers.
Fully built, Long Thanh is meant to handle 100 million passengers a year as a regional transit hub rivaling Singapore’s Changi and Seoul’s Incheon.
Representatives from 34 foreign airlines have surveyed the airport, and Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet flew technical flights there in December 2025.
Under a plan ACV has submitted, Long Thanh would take all international routes longer than 1,000 km, non-scheduled international flights and new routes Tan Son Nhat cannot absorb, while Vietnamese carriers could pick either airport for domestic flights.
ACV wants more than 90% of the Ho Chi Minh City area’s international passengers flying through Long Thanh by 2027.
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