Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam’s aviation industry reported a sharp decline in punctuality rate in the first half of this year despite a significant increase in passenger traffic, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
The CAAV’s statistics showed that on-time performance rate fell to 62.6% in the period, down 13.1 percentage points from a year earlier.
Bamboo Airways had the best on-time performance (OTP) rate of 81%, followed by Pacific Airlines (80.2%), VASCO (78%), Vietnam Airlines (71%), Vietravel Airlines (67.7%) and Vietjet Air (50.6%).
Flight cancellations also increased to 855 flights in the first half of this year, accounting for 0.6% of the total operations and 0.2 percentage points higher than the same period last year.
In June alone, overall OTP dropped to just 56%, nearly 10 percentage points lower than the previous month. Of out 24,304 flights during the month, 44% were delayed and 1.2% were cancelled.
The CAAV attributed 68.5% of delays to late aircraft arrivals. Other reasons included airline problems, operational reasons, commercial, weather and technical factors.
The total number of passengers through Vietnam’s airports reached 59.7 million in the January – June period, up 9.1% year-on-year. International traffic soared by 12.9% to 22.9 million while domestic passengers rose 6.9% to 36.8 million./.
VNA
