History
- January 2, 1978: Airport opened.
- October 10, 2001: The new “Terminal One” began operation.
- April 7, 2005: Tiger Airways started thrice-weekly flights between Hanoi and Singapore after launching direct flights between Hồ Chí Minh City and Singapore on April 1, 2005. Tiger Airways became the first budget airline to operate in Vietnam.
- October 17, 2005: Low-cost carrier AirAsia launched direct flights between Hanoi and Bangkok. It is the second budget airline serving Vietnam after Tiger Airways.
- August 2006: The second runway(1B - 11R/29L) opened
- September 2, 2007: An Airbus A380 landed at Nội Bài.
- Since mid-2010, Nội Bài has been a hub for SkyTeam; Vietnam Airlines joined the network in 2010.
In 2010, the airport received approximately 9.5 million passengers, which made it overloaded, and accounted for one-third of international departures and arrivals at Vietnam’s three international airports. The designed capacity of the T1 terminal is 6 million passengers per annum.
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