Vietjet crew members wear face masks to prevent COVID-19 (Photo courtesy of Vietjet) AirlineRatings,the world’s famous airline safety and product rating website, also named otherrenowned airlines such as Emirates, Etihad Airways, British Airways, QatarAirways, Delta Air Lines, Jetblue, Lufthansa, Southwest, Air New Zealand, andKLM on its seven-star list.
For fullcompliance, airlines must have seven criteria in place, including websiteinformation on COVID-19 procedures; face masks for passengers; deep clean ofaircraft and protection equipment for the crew. The criteria also focuses onsocial distancing and modified meal services.
VietjetVice President To Viet Thang said: “Our modern fleet is equipped with HEPA (HighEfficiency Particulate Air system), which can filter up to 99.7 percent ofdust, bacterias and viruses. Also, Vietjet’s full compliance of safety standardstogether with staff’s cooperation have contributed to our safe transportationof millions of passengers during the escalating COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam.Especially, none of our employees have been infected with COVID-19 so far.”
The CoronaPrevention Commitee of Vietjet, teamed up by doctors, health and safetyexperts, has been working effectively to ensure the airline’s utmost safety,according to Thang. In addition to providing mask and protection equipment forfrontliners such as pilots, flight attendants, ground staff, technicians, theairline also quickly installed the isolation shield with sanitizers at all ofits check-in counters. Aircraft disinfection and sterilisation is carried outdaily. Vietjet also plans to vaccinate all staff in the near future.
AirlineRatings also recently named Vietjet in “the World’s Top 10 Safest & Best Low-Cost Airlines2021”.
Vietjet certified with seven-stars, the world’s highest rating for COVID-19 compliance for global airlines by AirlineRatings (Photo courtesy of Vietjet) Vietjet is afully-fledged member of International Air Transport Association (IATA) with theIATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certificate. As Vietnam’s largest privatecarrier, the airline was awarded the highest ranking for safety with 7 stars in2018 and 2019 by AirlineRatings and listed as one ofthe world's 50 best airlines for healthy financing and operations by AirfinanceJournal in 2018 and 2019. The airline has also been named as Best Low-CostCarrier by renowned organizations such as Skytrax, CAPA, Airline Ratings, andmany others./.
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