Tan Son Nhat International Airport

Tan Son Nhat International is Vietnam's busiest airport and the principal international gateway for Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon), handling roughly 41M passengers (2024) across 208 weekly routes to 93 destinations on 54 airlines. SGN has consistently ranked as one of Southeast Asia's ten busiest airports and the single-biggest passenger node in Vietnam, driven by Vietnam Airlines' SkyTeam hub operation and the rapid expansion of low-cost carriers VietJet Air and Bamboo Airways, both of which operate their largest bases here. The airport's defining constraint is geography: SGN is embedded inside Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Binh District, only 7 km (4 mi) from the central business district, surrounded by dense urban development that makes expansion impossible. Two parallel runways at 12,468 ft (3,800 m) and 10,007 ft (3,050 m) operate at saturation levels, and the existing twin-terminal complex (T1 domestic, T2 international) is over capacity. A third terminal (T3), designed to add 20M annual passengers, opened in 2025, but Vietnam's long-term solution is the new Long Thanh International Airport 40 km (25 mi) east, which will open in phases from 2026 and eventually replace SGN as the regional hub. International reach concentrates on Asia: daily or multi-daily service operates to every major Northeast Asian capital (Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Hong Kong) and throughout Southeast Asia, plus long-haul service to Frankfurt, Paris, London, Moscow, Melbourne, Sydney, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The airport's 33 ft (10 m) sea-level elevation imposes no performance penalties, and its central-city location gives SGN one of the shortest terminal-to-downtown transit times of any major Asian hub.