Vietjet Air aircraft (Source: Vietjet Air) Hanoi (VNA) – Low-cost carrier Vietjet Air has rescheduled many flightsfrom or to Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on November25 due to bad weathers caused by storm Usagi, which landed in central andsouthern localities the same day.
Incessant heavy downpours at the airport forced two flights betweenHo Chi Minh City and the central city of Da Nang to change their departure timesfrom late November 25 to the morning of the next day.
Four flights between the southern city and Buon Ma Thuotcity in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak and Vinh city of central NgheAn province, initially scheduled to take off in the evening of November 25, werealso delayed to the next morning.
Many other flights of the airline were also adjusted as adomino effect.
Vietjet Air had informed its passengers of these adjustmentsat the airports and through telephone calls and messages and its hotline 19001886.
Other airlines also had toreschedule or cancel many flights to and from localities in the region affectedby the storm on November 24 and 25.
Storm Usagi, theninth of its kind to enter the East Sea, made landfall in the southern centraland southern coast of Vietnam at November 25 noon before weakening to atropical depression.
When landing, it broughtwinds measuring 40-60km/h and gusting up to 89-102 km/h along with 150mm ofrainfall. One person was killed by a falling tree in HCM City during the storm.
The North-South railwayservice was also affected after two sections of the railway in Ninh Thuanprovince were damaged by floods.-VNA
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