Naypyidaw Airport

Naypyitaw Airport နေပြည်တော် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ လေဆိပ်
A layout plan of future Naypyidaw International Airport
IATA: ELA – ICAO: VYNT ELA Location of airport in Burma
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Ministry of Transport
Serves		Naypyidaw
Location		Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Elevation AMSL		109 ft / 33 m
Coordinates		19°37′08.87″N 96°11′59.78″E / 19.6191306°N 96.1999389°E / 19.6191306; 96.1999389Coordinates: 19°37′08.87″N 96°11′59.78″E / 19.6191306°N 96.1999389°E / 19.6191306; 96.199938919.77117, 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.

Expansion project

The airport is currently undergoing a major expansion project that will enable it to handle 3.5 million passengers annually by 2011. 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

Phase 1, scheduled to be completed between 2009 – 2011, comprises:

• An airport building that can cope with 3.5 million passengers
• A taxiway with 3700 meters in length and 30.5 meters in width
• A 403 meters long and 336 meters wide apron with a total area of 135,408 square meters where 10 aircraft can land simultaneously
• Boarding bridges,
• An annex to the airport
• A control tower
• A car parking and
• Other facilities.

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 main hall with an area of 17,174 square meters,
• the east hall and west hall with an area of 3224 square meters each and
• the north hall with an area of 5912 square meters.

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.

Phase 2

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.

Phase 3

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 12,000ft 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 and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Bagan	Yangon
Air Mandalay	Yangon
Hong Kong Airlines	Charter: Hong Kong

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