What is Tan Son Nhat International Airport?
{{For|description of the airfield while operated as a military airfield by the [[USAF]] and [[VNAF]]|Tan Son Nhut Air Base}} {{Infobox airport | name = Tan Son Nhat International Airport | nativename = {{lang-vi|Tân Sơn Nhất}} | image = TanSonNhatIntlTerminal outside.jpg | IATA = SGN | ICAO = VVTS | type = Public | owner = | operator = Southern Airports Authority | city-served = [[Ho Chi Minh City]] | location = | elevation-f = 33 | elevation-m = 10 | coordinates = {{coor dms|10|49|08|N|106|39|07|E|type:airport}} | website = | metric-elev = yes | metric-rwy = yes | r1-number = 07L/25R | r1-length-f = 10,000 | r1-length-m = 3,048 | r1-surface = Concrete | r2-number = 07R/25L | r2-length-f = 12,468 | r2-length-m = 3,800 | r2-surface = Concrete | footnotes = }} '''Tan Son Nhat International Airport''' ({{lang-vi|Sân bay quốc tế Tân Sơn Nhất}}) is an [[airport]] in [[Ho Chi Minh City]], [[Vietnam]]. It is the largest airport in [[Vietnam]]. It served 8.5 million [[passenger]]s in [[2006]] and 11 million passengers in 2007, more than a half of total passengers in Vietnam's airports, as well as two-thirds of international passenger traffic for Vietnam. The airport covers {{convert|850|ha|acre|0|lk=on|abbr=on}}. The airport can handle up to 17 million passengers per year in the two [[airport terminal|terminal]]s ([[Domestic Airport|Domestic]], [[International airport|International]]). The new international [[Terminal station|terminal]] was opened on 14th August 2007. == History == This airport was built by the French colonists in 1930s. During [[Vietnam War]], [[the United States]] made the airport larger to serve the war. After the [[Fall of Saigon]] in April 1975, this airport was made [[commercial]]. [[Category:1930s establishments in Vietnam]] [[Category:Airports in Vietnam]] [[Category:Ho Chi Minh City]] {{Multistub|transport|Asia}}