Aircraft of Vietnamese airlines (Photo: VNA) Bamboo Airways will launch regular flights on air routes linkingHanoi and Narita (Japan), Taipei (China) and Incheon (Republic of Korea).
The airline will resume flights from/to Ho Chi Minh City andSingapore and Thailand next month, and other routes linking with Laos andCambodia this summer. It is to conduct flights to Europe, Oceania and Americas inthe coming time. Round-trip tickets for regular passenger international flightsconnecting Vietnam with the UK, Germany, Australia, Japan, the RoK andSingapore in February and until March 26 have been for sale.
Bamboo Airways will expand its network to 80 domestic routesand 40 international ones this year.
For its part, budget carrier Vietjet Air has increased the frequency of regular international commercial flights to 3-4 per week on theHanoi-Tokyo (Japan) route starting February 18; the Hanoi-Seoul (RoK) from February16; and the HCM City-Singapore from February 10.
It has offered air tickets for international commercial flightslinking Hanoi and HCM City with Taipei and Thailand.
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has updated its regularinternational flight itinerary on its official website. It has resumed regular international routes with 15countries and territories, and will restart its HCM City – Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)round-trip flights starting February 17 and those linking HCM City withSydney (Australia) from March.
Earlier, the CAAV has asked the Vietnam Air TrafficManagement Corporation (VATM) to issue a Notice To Airmen (NOTAM) on thelifting of all restrictions on international flights from February 15,returning to the normal situation as before the outbreak of COVID-19.
According to the authority, limits on the number of inbound andoutbound international flights in Vietnam will be removed. Meanwhile,regulations on entry and pandemic prevention and control for passengersentering Vietnam will continue to be implemented in line with guidelines of theMinistry of Public Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministryof Health, it said.
Except China, all the countries receiving Vietnam’s proposalhave agreed to restore the aviation links with Vietnam.
Currently, air routes linking Vietnam and Europeancountries, Australia and the US have been resumed. However, Japan and the RoKhave still applied restrictions on passengers from Vietnam as part of theirefforts to prevent COVID-19 spreading./.
VNA
