Airlines, railways increase seats amid rising travel demand during Tet

Air and railway transport service suppliers have announced that they will continue increase seats for customers during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays to meet the rising travelling demands on the occasion of the most important festival of Vietnamese people in a year.
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Hanoi(VNA) – Air and railway transport service suppliers have announced thatthey will continue increase seats for customers during the upcoming Lunar NewYear (Tet) holidays to meet the rising travelling demands on the occasion of themost important festival of Vietnamese people in a year.

Vietnam AirlinesGroup, which consists of Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and VASCO, said that itwill provide an additional 66,200 seats on 310 domestic flights for customers inthe period from January 25 to February 24, or the 15th day of thelast month of the year of the Cat and the 15th day of the firstmonth in the year of the Dragon.

With this adjustment, Vietnam Airline Group will raise itstotal number of domestic and international flights during Tet to 12,374 with about2.64 million seats.

The additional flights are mostly on routes connecting HoChi Minh City with Hanoi, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Vinh (Nghe An province), ThanhHoa, Quy Nhon (Binh Dinh), Hue (Thua Thien-Hue), Quang Nam, Tuy Hoa (Phu Yen), Da Lat (LamDong), Cam Ranh (Nha Trang), Buon Ma Thuot (Dak Lak), Pleiku (Gia Lai), and Phu Quoc(Kien Giang), serving customers’ demands to return home for family reunion andtravel.

At the same time, Vietravel Airlines reported that so far,it has received bookings for 89% of its flights and even over 97% of flights inparticular routes during the holidays.

Meanwhile, the Vietnam Railways said that it will provideabout 200,000 seats during the upcoming Tet festival.

The Hanoi Railway Transport JSC will add 3,500 seats todifferent routes, while the Saigon Railway Transport JSC also announced that itwill operate eight additional trains, mostly on the Ho Chi Minh City-Hanoiroute. To date, the Saigon Railway Transport JSC has sold more than 152,000tickets for Tet./.
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