This was revealed in ananalysis by Airbus and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) usingstatistics about the flight numbers from Flightdatar24 and Airbus.
Dinh Viet Thang, Director ofthe Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), said domestic flights have enjoyedbreakthroughs in terms of both passenger and cargo traffic in the first half of2022.
In particular, airports acrossVietnam served 40.7 million passengers, up 56.8 percent from the same periodlast year. That included 1.8 million foreign passengers and 38.9 million Vietnamese, respectively rising 904.6 percent and 52.6 percent.
Meanwhile, Vietnameseairlines carried 20.1 million passengers, including 667,000 foreign and19.5 million domestic ones. The figures soared by 56.1 percent, 1,033 percent,and 51.8 percent, respectively.
The CAAV forecast airportsnationwide will serve about 87.8 million passengers this year, jumping 190percent from 2021. The numbers of foreign and domestic passengers areexpected at some 5 million and 82.8 million, up 844 percent and 178.4 percent,respectively.
The cargo throughput stood atabout 765,000 tonnes in the six months, up 30.6 percent. It is predicted to grow5 percent from last year to 1.5 million tonnes in 2022.
Thang expressed his hope thatwith such growth, the entire aviation market of Vietnam will soon return topre-pandemic levels./.