The figure represented a year-on-year surge of 1,814%, but adecrease of 23.3% against October of 2019 before the COVID-19 outbreak.
In the month, Vietnamese airports served 1.3 million foreigntourists, down 1.4% month-on-month, but up 2,794% year-on-year; and 5.8 milliondomestic passengers, down 13.6% month-on-month, and up 1,679% year-on-year.
In October, Vietnamese airlines served a total of over 3.3million passengers, including 614,000 foreigners.
This is the second consecutive month the number of airpassengers has recorded a fall. The CAAV said that the low season can lastuntil the end of December every year and the number of air passengers onlyincreases again during the New Year holidays.
In the period from September 19 to October 18, Vietnameseairlines conducted 25,037 flights, down 17.6% from the previous month; in which23,314 took off on time, accounting for the on-time ratio (OTP) of 93.1%, up2.5 percentage points compared to the previous month./.
VNA