Daily passenger quota set for HCMC-Hanoi flights on Covid fears
By Doan Loan July 9, 2021 | 10:37 am GMT+7
Passengers at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCMC, February 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran.
Only 1,700 passengers are allowed to fly from HCMC to Hanoi each day from Friday as the southern metropolis entered a 15-day social distancing period with more stringent measures.
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam said the quota is to reduce the number of people going to other localities from HCMC and enable effective social distancing at airports.
Vietnam Airlines is allowed to sell a maximum of 700 seats a day, Bamboo Airways and Vietjet Air can sell 400 each and Pacific Airlines’s quota is 200.
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Vietnam Airlines aircrafts stand idle at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, July 1, 2021. Photo: C. Trung / Tuoi Tre
Once the busiest airport in Vietnam, Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City has become almost deserted as passenger volumes nosedived due to flight restrictions.
The inner-city airdrome received 550 to 720 flights and 85,000 to 109,000 passengers every day before and during the national public holidays in celebration of the Reunification Day (April 30) and the International Labor Day (May 1) this year, one of its leaders told
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Thursday.
In contrast, it handled fewer than 200 flights, including 37 to 59 domestic trips, and 3,000 passengers a day between Monday and Thursday this week.
HANOI, 28 June 2021: Vietnam Airlines is the second Vietnamese airline this month to gain traffic rights to fly to North American cities following approvals granted to Bamboo Airlines.
Transport Canada awarded a foreign air operator’s
certificate to Vietnam’s national airline that would allow it to fly direct
passenger and cargo services as early as next month.
If it does organise flights, they will be limited to
repatriation services for Vietnamese returning home or studying in Canada.
The decision by Transport Canada to award a Foreign Air
Operator Certificate allows the airline to carry passengers and cargo to any
point in the country.
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According to the Vietnam Aviation Business Association (VABA), Vietnamese airlines have beared short-term debts and due debts up to VND36 trillion (US$1.6 billion) since the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.
Of the total debts, state-owned carrier Vietnam Airlines has accounted for VND20 trillion (US$867 million).
The total revenue of Vietnamese airlines recorded a reduction of over 60 percent, equaling to VND100 trillion (US$4.3 billion) in 2020. Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Bamboo Airways were estimated to suffer from the loss of VND16 trillion (US$694 million).
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