Bamboo Airways records highest punctuality in November

Bamboo Airways records the highest punctuality in November. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Bamboo Airways ranked first amongdomestic airlines in on-time performance (OTP) in November with a rate of 96.9%,according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

Pacific Airlines came second at 96.8%, followed by national flag carrier VietnamAirlines at 96%, and Vietjet Air at 94.3%.

Vietravel Airlines was the only airline that saw a drop in OTP, decreasing 2.1 points to 87.91%.

On average, the punctuality of the whole aviation sector inthe month rose 2.3 points to 95.5% in November, while the number of flightsrose 3.8%.

Meanwhile, domestic airlines cancelled only 15 out of total25,937 flights operated in the month, or 0.06%, mostly due to bad weatherconditions.

During the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, theairlines have planned to increase the number of flights by 32% to 33,691 tomeet surging demands of passengers.

The latest data from the CAAV showed that in November, sixVietnamese airlines transported 4.3 million passengers, up 7% over October and634% compared to November 2021, but down 5% compared to November 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

Of the total,the number of international visitors was 835,000, a rise of 8% over theprevious month./.

VNA