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Wattay International Airport

General Information

Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Airport

Location

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Technical Information

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Excerpt from Wikipedia

Wattay International Airport (IATA: VTE, ICAO: VLVT) is one of the few international airports in Laos and the country's main international gateway, serving the capital Vientiane, located 3 km (2 mi) outside of the city centre. A larger domestic terminal was constructed in 2018 and connected to the international terminal. There is a Lao Air Force installation at one end of the airport. The airport is in Sikhodtabong District in Vientiane.

The head office of the Department of Civil Aviation is on the airport property. The head office of Lao Air is on the airport property. Lao Airlines is revising flying to Yangon. The largest airplane that is flown to Vientiane is the A330. This is flown by Thai Airways. The largest airplane that has ever visited this airport is the Boeing 747-400, carrying Park Geun-hye – then-president of South Korea – for the 2016 ASEAN summit.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Wattay International Airport" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    10046148
  • Published on:
    23/07/2009
  • Last updated on:
    28/07/2023
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