Phu Cat Airport

For the Vietnam War military use of this facility, see Phu Cat Air Base.

Phu Cat Airport (IATA: UIH, ICAO: VVPC) is an airport serving Quy Nhơn, Vietnam. It is in Phù Cát district between the towns of Ngo May and Đập Đá, around 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Qui Nhơn within Bình Định province along the South Central Coast of Vietnam.

Phu Cat Airport Sân bay Phù Cát
Terminal entrance
IATA: UIH ICAO: VVPC
Summary
Airport type	Public / military
Operator	Middle Airport Authority
Serves	Quy Nhơn
Location	Phù Cát
Operating base for	Bamboo Airways
Elevation AMSL	24 m / 79 ft
Coordinates	13°57′18″N 109°02′32″E
Website	www.phucatairport.vn
Map
UIH/VVPC Location of airport in Vietnam
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 15/33 3,051 10,010 Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Total passengers 630,935[1] Aircraft movements 4,346[1]
Sources: GCM,[2] STV[3]

As well as being a commercial airport, Phu Cat is also used by the Vietnam People's Air Force, being home to the nation's sole squadrons of Sukhoi Su-27 and Yakovlev Yak-130.

Phu Cat Airport is the registered hub serving Bamboo Airways. Phu Cat Airport handled 1.5 million passengers in 2017.^[4]

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Bamboo Airways	Can Tho (suspended), Hai Phong (suspended), Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Hoa (suspended),[5] Vinh (suspended)[6] Seasonal charter: Cheongju[7]
Pacific Airlines	Ho Chi Minh City (temporarily suspended)
VietJet Air	Hai Phong,[8] Hanoi,[9] Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam Airlines	Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City
Vietravel Airlines	Charter: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City

History

For the military use of the facility during the Vietnam War, see Phu Cat Air Base.

Phù Cát Airport was built in 1967 during the Vietnam War for the United States Air Force (USAF) by the American construction company RMK-BRJ. During the war, it was a major air base for the Republic of Vietnam Air Force and USAF. Until 1975, the airport was known as Gò Quánh Airport. The airport was one of the major sites for Agent Orange recharge besides Bien Hoa Air Base and Da Nang Air Base. Due to heavy activities involving dioxin during the war, the ground at the airport was polluted with toxic chemicals and cleanup efforts are still ongoing. After 1975, it was used for training purpose by the Vietnamese Air Force and subsequently developed into a mixed-use airport for both regional civic air transport and military activities in 1984 following the suspension of civic service at nearby Qui Nhơn Airfield. In September 1984, the airport served its first commercial flight.^[10]

On July 10, 2003, construction on a new 3,000 m² (32,000 sq ft) passenger terminal for the airport started. The terminal was completed in June 2004. It has a capacity of 600,000 passengers per year, with two airplane gates, six check-in counters and two conveyor belts.^[10] The airport handled 420,000 passengers in 2014 and held an average 46% annual growth in passengers. The airport served 1.5 million passengers in 2017.

On February 13, 2017, work started on the site of a new passenger terminal for Phu Cat Airport. This terminal, built on a cost of US$22 million, would have a capacity of 1.5 million passengers per year with room for expansion up to 2.4 million. The new terminal opened on May 3, 2018 and completely replaced the 2003-built terminal.^[11]

Gallery

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  Old terminal at the airport
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  Interior of the Passenger terminal
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  A Vietnam Airlines Airbus A320 at the airport

See also

• Aviation portal

• List of airports in Vietnam

References

1. Trí Dũng. "Bình Định đề xuất xây Nhà ga hành khách sân bay Phù Cát". Thời báo Tài chính Việt Nam. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
2. Airport information for VVPC at Great Circle Mapper.
3. Airport information for Phu Cat Airport at Transport Search website.
4. "Chỉ bù lỗ sân bay ít khách" (in Vietnamese). Nguoi lao dong. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
5. "Bamboo Airways mở đường bay Thanh Hóa - Phú Quốc và Thanh Hóa - Quy Nhơn từ ngày 1/7". Vietnambiz (in Vietnamese). 12 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
6. "Bamboo Airways khai trương 3 đường bay mới kết nối Thanh Hóa – Quy Nhơn, Thanh Hóa – Phú Quốc, Vinh – Quy Nhơn". Bamboo Airways (in Vietnamese). 2 July 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
7. "Báo VietnamNet".
8. Liu, Jim. "VietJet Air schedules new domestic routes from mid-June 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
9. "Vietjet announces Hanoi-Quy Nhon flights". 19 January 2015. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021.
10. "Giới thiệu". Cảng hàng không Phù Cát (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
11. "Đưa vào khai thác Nhà ga hành khách Cảng hàng không Phù Cát". Airports Corporation of Vietnam. Retrieved 7 June 2018.

External links

• (in English) Official website