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Domestic airlines will increase the number of night flights before, during and after the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday – the biggest traditional festival of Vietnamese - to meet increasing travel demand of passengers.

Vietnam is set to be home to 26 airports by 2030, 14 of which will be international, according to a draft master plan on the development of the national airport network to 2030 and vision to 2050 from the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).

Vietnamese citizens living in Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), and Taiwan (China) can register for self-paid charter flights home from December 1, 2020 to January 15, 2021.

Chu Lai airport in the central province of Quang Nam stands ready to return to normal operations from 7am on October 30 after two days of closure due to storm Molave, according to a representative from the Airports Corporation of Vietnam.

The domestic aviation sector is gradually recovering, with the passenger numbers heading toward pre-pandemic levels following the resumption of domestic flights and certain international air routes disrupted by COVID-19.

Vietnam’s aviation sector has served an increasing number of passengers following the resumption of domestic flights and certain international air routes disrupted by COVID-19.

Vietnamese airlines’ on-time performance (OTP) reached 96 percent in September, reported the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) on September 24.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has recently submitted a detailed flight schedule of airlines and requirements on carrying passengers to Vietnam to the Ministry of Transport.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has issued an urgent document requesting three airports in the central region to suspend operation on September 18, the day storm Noul is slated to land in the region.

Flight routes to China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan will be reopened from September 15, Laos and Cambodia from September 22.

A delegation of two doctors and two nurses of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases headed to Equatorial Guinea to bring home 219 Vietnamese citizens, who are working for three Vietnamese companies in the host country, of whom 120 have tested positive for the coronavirus SARS-nCOV-2.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked airlines to mobilise aircraft to take passengers out of the central city of Da Nang before 0:00am on July 28.

The Long Thanh International Airport needs employees who are not only professional and disciplined but also know foreign languages, leaders of training institutions have said.

Launching domestic routes is billed as a good way to save Vietnamese airlines, who have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to insiders.

Vietnamese authorities are working to resume international flights in an attempt to help the aviation industry get a good recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has clobbered the sector from the outset of the year.

The application made by Vietravel Airlines satisfies all conditions for licensing as an aviation transport business, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).

Licenses of Pakistani pilots who are working in Vietnam will be revoked if they are found illegal, General Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) Dinh Viet Thang has affirmed.

Budget carrier Bamboo Airways on June 28 affirmed that it is not currently employing any Pakistani pilots or those using licenses granted by Pakistan.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has suspended nearly 20 Pakistani pilots working for Vietnamese airlines after Pakistan discovered 262 local pilots using fake licenses.

HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport reopened runway 25L/07R on the morning of June 15 after closing it for more than 20 hours to handle the incident in which a Vietjet Air plane skidded off the runaway.