Major Airports in Vietnam

Vietnam runs one of Asia’s fastest-growing aviation markets, and its geography shapes the whole network. The country is a long, narrow S-curve more than 1,600 km from top to bottom, so air travel does the heavy lifting between regions — and instead of one dominant capital hub, Vietnam has two co-leaders at opposite ends: Noi Bai in Hanoi to the north and Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City to the south, with Da Nang as the third international gateway in the centre. The SkyTeam flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and the low-cost giant VietJet Air fly the bulk of the routes, backed by Bamboo Airways, Pacific Airlines and Vietravel Airlines.

Below we map and rank Vietnam’s airports by the number of nonstop destinations each one serves, drawn from live route data on AirportRoutes. We rank by regularly-served destinations — routes flown often enough to count as scheduled service — rather than raw nonstop totals, which inflate the seasonal leisure airports. The figures come from observed flight data (a large sample rather than a complete published timetable), so treat them as a guide to relative connectivity, not official totals.

Which Vietnamese airports have direct flights to the US?

Direct US flying from Vietnam is concentrated entirely at Ho Chi Minh City. Tan Son Nhat (SGN) is the country’s only airport with a scheduled nonstop flight to the United States — Vietnam Airlines flies it to San Francisco, a route it launched in late 2021 as the first-ever nonstop service between Vietnam and the US, operated with Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 widebodies.

No other Vietnamese airport — not even Hanoi’s Noi Bai — currently has its own nonstop US service, so travellers from the north or centre connect through Ho Chi Minh City or, more often, an East-Asian hub such as Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei or Hong Kong. That balance may shift as the giant new Long Thanh International Airport opens east of Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnamese carriers expand their long-haul fleets.

A closer look at Vietnam’s main airports

✈️ Hanoi – Noi Bai (HAN)

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Noi Bai International Airport lies about 35 km north of central Hanoi and is Vietnam’s busiest airport by number of destinations. It is the main hub of Vietnam Airlines and a major base for VietJet Air, and it is the gateway to the capital and the whole north of the country — Ha Long Bay, Sapa and Ninh Binh. Two terminals split the work: T1 for domestic flights and the newer T2 for international.

Serving Hanoi and the Red River Delta, Noi Bai reaches around 82 regularly-served nonstop destinations, with a dense domestic trunk network plus a wide East-Asian and intercontinental reach. Top routes include Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Can Tho, Hue, Nha Trang and Seoul (Incheon).

Main airlines: Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Bamboo Airways, China Eastern, Vietravel Airlines, Asiana. See the full route map for HAN on AirportRoutes →

🏙️ Ho Chi Minh City – Tan Son Nhat (SGN)

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Tan Son Nhat International Airport sits just a few kilometres from the centre of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest metropolis. It is the country’s busiest airport by passengers and its sole nonstop gateway to the United States. Hemmed in by the city on all sides, it has long run over capacity — a new Terminal 3 opened in 2025 to ease the crush, while the giant Long Thanh airport is being built to the east to take over much of its long-haul traffic.

Serving Ho Chi Minh City and the booming southeast, SGN reaches about 80 regularly-served nonstop destinations, including Vietnam’s widest long-haul network. Top routes include Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue, Hai Phong, Phu Quoc and Con Dao.

Main airlines: Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Pacific Airlines, Bamboo Airways, China Eastern. See the full route map for SGN on AirportRoutes →

🌏 Da Nang (DAD)

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Da Nang International Airport sits right in the heart of the city, in the centre of the country, and is Vietnam’s third international gateway. It serves the fast-growing central coast — the beaches of Da Nang and the UNESCO towns of Hoi An and My Son nearby — and is especially popular with Korean, Chinese and other East-Asian visitors.

Serving Da Nang and central Vietnam, DAD reaches around 26 regularly-served nonstop destinations, a mix of domestic trunk routes and East-Asian leisure markets. Top routes include Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Phu Quoc, Bangkok, Seoul and Busan.

Main airlines: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines, Bamboo Airways, T’way Air, Vietravel Airlines, Jin Air. See the full route map for DAD on AirportRoutes →

🏖️ Nha Trang – Cam Ranh (CXR)

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Cam Ranh International Airport lies about 30 km south of the resort city of Nha Trang on the south-central coast, sharing its site with a military air base. It is one of Vietnam’s great leisure airports, drawing heavy charter and scheduled flows from Russia, South Korea and China to the beaches of Khanh Hoa province.

Serving Nha Trang and the south-central coast, CXR reaches about 31 regularly-served nonstop destinations, weighted towards East-Asian and Russian leisure markets. Top routes include Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul (Incheon), Hai Phong, Bangkok and Moscow.

Main airlines: Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Aeroflot, T’way Air, Jin Air, Bamboo Airways. See the full route map for CXR on AirportRoutes →

🏝️ Phu Quoc (PQC)

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Phu Quoc International Airport serves Vietnam’s largest island, set in the Gulf of Thailand off the far southwestern coast near Cambodia. The island has boomed into a resort destination — helped by a visa-waiver scheme for foreign visitors flying in directly — and the airport handles a growing slate of international charters alongside the domestic links.

Serving Phu Quoc, PQC reaches around 26 regularly-served nonstop destinations, increasingly from across East and Southeast Asia. Top routes include Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Da Nang, Seoul and Taipei.

Main airlines: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines, Air Astana, Eastar Jet, Jeju Air. See the full route map for PQC on AirportRoutes →

🚢 Hai Phong – Cat Bi (HPH)

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Cat Bi International Airport serves Hai Phong, Vietnam’s third-largest city and the main port of the north. It is the north’s second airport after Noi Bai and a convenient gateway to Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba Island, with a growing base for VietJet and Vietnam Airlines.

Serving Hai Phong and the northern coast, HPH reaches about 13 regularly-served nonstop destinations, mostly domestic trunk routes plus a handful of East-Asian links. Top routes include Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Phu Quoc and Seoul.

Main airlines: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines, Bamboo Airways, Qingdao Airlines. See the full route map for HPH on AirportRoutes →

🌾 Can Tho (VCA)

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Can Tho International Airport is the main gateway to the Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s rice bowl, in the south of the country. Although it has international capability, its traffic is overwhelmingly domestic — it is positioned to relieve Tan Son Nhat by giving the delta its own direct links rather than routing everyone through Ho Chi Minh City.

Serving Can Tho and the Mekong Delta, VCA reaches around 7 regularly-served nonstop destinations, almost all domestic. Top routes include Hanoi, Da Nang, Phu Quoc, Con Dao and Hai Phong.

Main airlines: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines, VASCO. See the full route map for VCA on AirportRoutes →

🌲 Da Lat – Lien Khuong (DLI)

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Lien Khuong Airport serves Da Lat, the cool-climate hill resort of the Central Highlands famous for its pine forests, flower farms and French-era villas. Sitting on a plateau south of the town, it handles domestic trunk routes plus a few regional international links.

Serving Da Lat and Lam Dong province, DLI reaches around 7 regularly-served nonstop destinations. Top routes include Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Kuala Lumpur, Hai Phong and Vinh.

Main airlines: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines, Bamboo Airways, Pacific Airlines, AirAsia, VASCO. See the full route map for DLI on AirportRoutes →

⛴️ Con Dao (VCS)

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Con Dao Airport sits on the remote Con Dao archipelago, about 80 km off the southern coast — a former French and South-Vietnamese prison island chain now reborn as a tranquil eco-tourism and diving destination. Its short runway means most flights use small ATR turboprops, flown by VASCO, Vietnam Airlines’ regional arm.

Serving the Con Dao islands, VCS reaches just 3 regularly-served nonstop destinations — but on busy, often-daily schedules. Top routes are Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi (via Can Tho) and Can Tho.

Main airlines: VASCO, VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines. See the full route map for VCS on AirportRoutes →

🏯 Hue – Phu Bai (HUI)

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Phu Bai International Airport lies just south of Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam and a UNESCO World Heritage city on the central coast. Recently expanded with a new terminal, it runs mostly domestic trunk routes linking the old capital to the two big cities.

Serving Hue and Thua Thien Hue province, HUI reaches around 2 regularly-served nonstop destinations — essentially the Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi shuttles. Top routes are Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.

Main airlines: VietJet Air, Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines. See the full route map for HUI on AirportRoutes →

Vietnam’s other regional airports

Beyond the busiest ten, Vietnam has a long tail of provincial airports that survive mainly on domestic links to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Buon Ma Thuot (BMV) in the Central Highlands actually ranks ninth nationally, and Vinh (VII) on the north-central coast tenth — both are busy domestic feeders tying the highlands and the coast back to the two big cities.

Smaller still are Pleiku (PXU) in the highlands, the central-coast pair Quy Nhon / Phu Cat (UIH) and Tuy Hoa / Dong Tac (TBB), and Dong Hoi (VDH), the gateway to the vast Phong Nha-Ke Bang caves. In the far south, Ca Mau (CAH) and Rach Gia (VKG) connect the tip of the Mekong Delta; Dien Bien Phu (DIN) sits in the northwestern mountains at the site of the famous 1954 battle; and Van Don (VDO), a privately built airport in Quang Ninh province, serves Ha Long Bay. Several of these have ambitions to add international charters as Vietnam’s tourism keeps climbing.

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