Vietnam Airlines has announced that there are 6 flights from Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung in Taiwan to the southern city of Can Tho and 5 others from Can Tho to the above cities during the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet) holiday. Its first flight VN6571 carrying 186 passengers from Taiwan already landed at Can Tho [...]
The Prime Minister has allowed national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines to take over the entire state-owned capital of budget airline Jetstar Pacific. State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) owned Jetstar Pacific Airlines has taken losses for many years. SCIC now holds around 70 per cent stake in Jetstar Pacific, with the remainder owned by Australia’s Qantas [...]
The Ministry of Transport will build a new airport in Bao Thang district, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. The airport will be built 20km to the south of Lao Cai City on 140ha at a total cost of $61.9 million. It will serve military and civil purposes, and will aid rescue efforts in [...]
To meet the growing needs of airline passengers, most Vietnamese carriers plan to improve their services in the domestic market during Tet (Lunar New Year) festival. Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carrier, plans to increase its domestic flights before Tet to an average of 111 flights per day. The earliest flight starts at 5.30am and [...]
Vietnam’s new budget airline VietJetAir is offering promotion seats priced from only VND250,000 for all flights from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City within January 10-23, 2012. The promotion is to facilitate travelling of passengers in the capital who want to celebrate Lunar New Year and/or visit relatives in the bustling southern city. Promotion tickets [...]
In 2011, Vietnam’s aviation firms carried about 16.6 million passengers; lower than the target of 17.5 million passengers set in early 2011. Thus, the number of passengers the local airlines companies carried in 2011 was lower than the target set by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) by over 20%, although in comparison with [...]
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Emirates Airlines will open direct daily flights to Ho Chi Minh City on June 4. Emirates Airlines President Tim Clark said these flights aim at both tourists and businesspeople from the Middle East, Africa and EU. The opening of these air routes will provide a gateway for tourists to discover [...]
No government in the world can have enough money to build all infrastructure items. Therefore, governments have to call for private investment and foreign direct investment FDI for port development. The only thing the governments need to do is to set up reasonable policies to ensure profits for investors and the smooth operation of the [...]
Local aviation transport will be knocked into shape if a Ministry of Transport draft decree gets the government’s thumbs-up. Late last month, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) submitted to the government a draft decree to supersede Decree 76/2007/ND-CP dated May 9, 2007 on aviation transport business and general aviation operations. The draft decree will directly [...]
Southern Airport Corp on December 24 in collaboration with Dak Lak province inaugurated a new passenger terminal of Buon Ma Thuot Airport. The newly-inaugurated passenger terminal of Buon Ma Thuot Airport has a total investment of 221 billion dong with scale of one ground floor and one mezzanine, total floor area of 7,200 m2 and [...]
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