| Naypyitaw Airport နေပြည်တော် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လေဆိပ် |
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| A layout plan of future Naypyidaw International Airport | |||
| IATA: ELA – ICAO: VYNT
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Ministry of Transport | ||
| Serves | Naypyidaw | ||
| Location | Naypyidaw, Myanmar | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 109 ft / 33 m | ||
| Coordinates | 19.77117, 96.18290 | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 16/34 | 12,000 | 3,657 | Concrete |
Naypyidaw Airport, (Burmese: နေပြည်တော် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လေဆိပ်; previously known as Ela Airport), is located 16 kilometers southeast of Naypyidaw, the capital of Burma. Before the foundation of Naypyidaw, this was referred to as the airport of the nearby town of Pyinmana. The airport was officially opened on 19 December 2011 by Myanmar's Vice President Dr.Sai Mauk Kham and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo.
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The airport is able to handle 3.5 million passengers annually. The design of Naypyidaw International Airport was drawn by CPG Consultants Pte., Ltd. Of Singapore. The company previously designed the annex to Yangon International Airport, as well as Singapore's Changi Airport and several airports of Vietnam and Laos. The construction work of the airport is being performed by Asia World Company, a Myanmar corporation. At the completion of the project, the airport will have 2 runways and 3 terminals with modern facilities. The construction is scheduled to proceed in three phases.
Phase 1, scheduled to be completed between 2009 – 2011, comprises:
Annually, 2 million international passengers plus 1.5 million local passengers totaling 3.5 million can use the main airport building which is made up of
The total area of the ground, first and second floors of the building is 63,000 square meters.
The airport building is a two-story building with reinforced concrete boree piles. The ground floor is for passenger arrivals and the first floor for passenger departures. The west hall is for local passengers, the east hall, and the north hall for international passengers.
The approach road to the airport with two ways / four lanes is 1500 meters long. The car parking measures 200 meters by 107 meters and its total area is 21,400 square meters. The 62- meter-high control tower can control all the construction tasks of the first, second and third phases of the project.
The second phase of the expansion project includes adding an apron measuring 1200 feet x 1200 feet in front of the already-constructed airport building, an apron where VIP aircraft lands and building four more boarding bridges at the airport building for passengers, a flight catering building, a government complex and an airport maintenance base.
The third phase includes adding 17 more boarding bridges, a dual parallel taxiway measuring 1200 ft x 100 ft, a runway measuring 12000 ft x 100 ft in front of the airport building, a set of dual parallel taxiway measuring 12,000 ft x 100 ft, four taxways measuring 650 ft x 100 ft, four taxways measuring 550 ft x 100 ft and an apron for cargo planes. After the third phase is completed, the airport will be able to cope with 10.5 million passengers annually and it will be more modern and sophisticated than Yangon International Airport and Mandalay International Airport.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Bagan | Yangon |
| Air Mandalay | Yangon |
| Hong Kong Airlines | Charter: Hong Kong |