Higher service rates will help small airports stay sky high. “Our five out of six member airports are running at losses due to low flight frequency and service rates though we reaped pre-tax profits of over VND336 billion ($16.2 million) in the year ending August,” said Northern Airport Corporation (NAC) general director Le Manh Hung. [...]
Thanh Hoa authorities have to think of the reality and viability of using available facilities at a military airport for civil purposes before the province thinks about building a new airport at an estimated cost of over VND2.6 trillion. Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has told the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to [...]
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) is mulling over a plan to increase domestic airfare by 1.5 times to cope with rising inflation. Pham Ngoc Minh, VNA General Director, said that the increased fees are expected to offset rising fuel prices. Minh added that, if the government approves the proposal, fees will be increased by [...]
Though the Vietnamese average income per capita remains at “low average” level, Commercial Manager of Vinacopter, a distribution firm, Jussi Hoikka, still believes that the demand for private aircraft in Vietnam would soar in the time to come. There are about 20 operational helicopters in Vietnam, a very modest figure if compared with the number [...]
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on Sept. 5 announced its promotion programme on direct flights to the UK . The promotion programme, under which return tickets are sold at the price of VND12,500,000 (roughly $599), including taxes and other charges, is to mark the opening of the Vietnam-UK direct air route in December. The [...]
Vietnam will need about 1,500 to 2,000 pilots by 2020, according to the aviation industry’s development strategy by 2020, prompting an urgent need for training this human resource. In the context of economic difficulties of the economy and the pressure of the aviation sector’s growth, reducing expenses through training and recruiting Vietnamese pilots has been [...]
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