Vietnamese aviation breaks out

Although the demand for air travel is still lower than before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many positive signs in the first months of this year as the Government gradually opens the domestic and foreign markets. country.

Bureau’s report Vietnam Airlines Nam said that in the first quarter of 2022, Vietnam’s aviation industry has grown by more than 400% in volume International visitors compared to the same period last year and is completely able to reverse the trend when maintaining the growth rate of 8-10%/year in passenger and 10-12% in cargo.

Domestic routes have been continuously maintained, adding new routes and increasing the frequency of flying niches such as Con Dao, Dien Bien, Rach Gia…

At the peak in the past 3 months, there were periods when Bamboo Airways flew up to 200 flights/day. The airline also said that it will divide into phases on the basis of preparing resources to continuously open new routes connecting back to Northeast Asian routes.

As soon as the aviation market began to rekindle and recover, from the end of last year, Vietjet Air officially became the third airline in Vietnam to operate large wide-body aircraft for the main routes. A330.

By the end of the first quarter of 2022, Vietnamese airlines are operating an average of 55-60 domestic routes, with 19 local airports following a nationwide network of trunk – nan, inter-regional and intra-regional routes. fully exploited again.

The Government is also implementing many supporting mechanisms and policies such as 50% reduction of take-off and landing prices, and service prices for departure and arrival flights for domestic flights.

At the same time, apply a 50% reduction of the environmental protection tax rate on jet fuel, creating conditions for businesses to restructure loan repayment terms, exempt and reduce loan fees, remove capital difficulties…

Currently, only 8 countries have not reopened regular flights to and from Vietnam. The aviation industry expects that when international routes are fully reopened, right in the second quarter, the aviation market will fully recover like it was before the epidemic.

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