Noi Bai International Airport's staff guide passengers to quarantine areas (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnamese airlineswill halt operations on many international air routes on upcoming days amid thespread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines onMarch 19 announced that it will stop flights between Vietnam and ASEAN countriesof Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, starting fromMarch 21.
The carrier’s services between Vietnam and theUK and Japan will be suspended as from March 23. Meanwhile, its flights departingfrom Vietnam bound for Germany and Australia will be halted from March 24, andthose departing from those two countries for Vietnam will be halted from thenext day.
Jetstar Pacific also announced thesuspension of its international flights until April 30.
Similarly, budget airline Vietjet Air willsuspend its flights from/to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmarand Indonesia starting from March 20. The suspension is projected to last untilthe end of April, but will depend on COVID-19 situation.
However, Vietjet Air has yet to makedecision on its routes between Vietnam and Taiwan, Japan and India.
Vietnam’s newest carrier Bamboo Airwayssaid the air route connecting Hanoi and Prague of the Czech Republic, which wasinitially planned to be launched on March 29, will be delayed to April 26 dueto impact of the COVID-19. The airline’s international flights have beensuspended.
Representatives of the airlines saidpassengers of the affected flights during the COVID-19 outbreak would be ableto change their departure date and destinations to later dates freeof charge when the outbreak is under control.
Earlier, Vietnamese airlines had suspended flightsfrom/to mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, France,Russia and Malaysia in the face of the COVID-19.
Starting from March 19, passengers withtravel history to epidemic-hit areas arriving in Noi Bai International Airport willbe sent straight to concentrated quarantine facilities and have their samplestaken there, in a bid to reduce overloading at the airport./.
VNA
