Statistics

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:89%; align=center;"
|+ Flights Out of Pleiku Airport by Frequency
|- style="background:darkgrey;"
! |Rank|| |Destinations|| |Frequency (Weekly)
|-
|1
|Ho Chi Minh City
|28
|-
|2
|Hanoi
|14
|-
|3
|Da Nang
|7

History

Pleiku Airport was little more than an undeveloped air strip in December 1962 when it was designated by the South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) as Air Base 62. It was expanded during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

 and became a major air base for the VNAF and United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

activities, but never reached the saturation and population proportions of the major air bases of the coastal lowlands. After 1975, it was developed into a civil airport.

External links

• Trip To Pleiku - 2006