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Airlines benefit from service fee cuts at Vietnam’s int’l airports

Airlines operating international flight routes to Phu Bai, Cam Ranh, Lien Khuong, Can Tho and Phu Quoc airports are about to benefit from a 50 percent reduction in airport service.
Airlines operating international flight routes to Phu Bai, Cam Ranh,Lien Khuong, Can Tho and Phu Quoc airports are about to benefit from a50 percent reduction in airport service.

This is one of thelatest incentives recently issued by the Ministry of Transport tofacilitate the development of Vietnam’s air transportation.

The five airports are located in major tourism hubs in the country. PhuBai is in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, Cam Ranh - the centralcoastal province of Khanh Hoa, Lien Khuong - the central highlandsprovince of Lam Dong, while Can Tho is in the Mekong Delta City of CanTho and Phu Quoc in the island of the same name in the Mekong Deltaprovince of Kien Giang.

The discounts, covering services fortake-off and landing, flight operation, and security scanning, areapplied to airlines launching international routes from or to the fiveairports during the period from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2015.

The reduction will last for 36 months since the date of the airline’s first flight at the airports.

OnAugust 6, the ministry approved a project on intensifying themanagement over prices and fees of airport and non-airport services.-VNA
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