Repairs were being carried out at Tân Sơn Nhất Airport's runway on October 30. — VNA/VNS Photo

HCM CITY — Repairs of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport’s 25R/07L runway have finished after nearly six months, according to the Cửu Long Corporation for Investment, Development and Project Management of Infrastructure.

The runway is undergoing a six-day trial run, from December 15-20, before being put into service on December 31.

The runway’s upgrade project begun in late June this year, around the same time as a similar undertaking at Nội Bài International Airport in Hà Nội.

The upgrade project at Tân Sơn Nhất, the country’s busiest airport, has a total investment of more than VNĐ2 trillion (some US$86 million), including new rapid exit taxiways, parallel taxiways, improved signal lights, drainage systems and other works on runway 25R/07L. The upgrade is carried out in two phases, with the first and second spanning six and 14 months.

In the second phase, the project will upgrade five existing taxiways and build new rapid exit taxiways, connecting taxiways and parallel taxiways besides a drainage system, taxiway lights and aviation signboards.

Việt Nam’s airports have been overloaded for many years and the resultant damage has been evident in visible cracks and deformation and subsidence of the asphalt surfaces. — VNS