Cam Ranh International Airport
| Cam Ranh International Airport Sân bay Quốc tế Cam Ranh | |||||||||||
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2012 image of Cam Ranh airport terminal | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Nha Trang, Vietnam | ||||||||||
| Location | Cam Ranh, Vietnam | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 40 ft / 12 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 11°59′53″N 109°13′10″E / 11.99806°N 109.21944°E | ||||||||||
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Cam Ranh International Airport (IATA: CXR, ICAO: VVCR) (Vietnamese: Sân bay Quốc tế Cam Ranh) is located on Cam Ranh Bay in Cam Ranh, a town in the province of Khanh Hoa in Vietnam. It serves the city of Nha Trang, which is 30 km (16 NM) from the airport.
History
Cam Ranh Airport was built by the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, and operated by the United States Air Force for military purposes as Cam Ranh Air Base.
In 1972, the base was turned over to the South Vietnamese government. On April 3, 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Cam Ranh Bay and all of its remaining facilities. From 1979 to 2002, the facility was used by the Soviet and then Russian Air Force because of a 25-year rent-free leasing treaty.
On May 19, 2004, after major reconstruction, the airport received its first commercial flight from Hanoi. It now handles all of Nha Trang's commercial flights, which previously headed to Nha Trang Airport. In 2007, Cam Ranh was upgraded to an international airport. In December, 2009 Cam Ranh International Airport was opened. The total invested capital is up to about 300 billion VND.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 02/20 with a concrete surface measuring 10,000 by 150 feet (3,048 m × 46 m).[2]
Airlines and destinations
Cam Ranh is the fourth busiest airport in Vietnam. In 2012, It served 1.2 million passengers[4]
| Airlines | Destinations | Route |
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| Asiana Airlines | Seasonal: Seoul–Incheon | International |
| Azur Air | Charter: Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk | International |
| Jetstar Pacific Airlines | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City | Domestic |
| Korean Air | Seoul–Incheon[5] | International |
| Nordwind Airlines / Ikar Airlines | Charter: Barnaul, Belgorod, Blagoveshchensk, Bratsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Mineralnye Vody, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Surgut, Tomsk, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | International |
| Sichuan Airlines | Chengdu | International |
| VietJet Air | Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City | Domestic |
| Vietnam Airlines | Da Nang, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City | Domestic |
| Vietnam Airlines | Moscow–Domodedovo[6] Charter: Chengdu, Hangzhou, Kunming | International |
See also
References
- ↑
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Airport information for VVCR from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ↑
- ↑ http://ktv.org.vn/web/ktv/view/-/asset_publisher/2Fxp/content/cang-hang-khong-quoc-te-cam-ranh-%C4%91on-may-bay-boeing-777-tu-moskva-nga/10157;jsessionid=B0212A785E3614F729776E4D2C9CEEE1.worker2
- ↑ "Korean Air Converts Nha Trang Service to Scheduled Service from late-Oct 2014". Airline Route. 8 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ↑ Ham Yen/Uyen Phuong Vietnam Airlines opens flight from Nha Trang to Moscow Travel - March 28, 2013, Saigon Giai Phong (English)
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