Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City is overrun by air travelers. (Photo: VNA) The airport is expected to serve 720 flights and up to 115,000passengers on the peak day of December 31. This is the highest dailypassenger number since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2021.
Of that amount of passengers, international arrivalsare expected to increase to more than 37,000 per day.
Nguyen Nam Tien, Deputy Director of the Tan Son Nhat InternationalAirport, said the airport has prepared plans to meet the upcoming high demand.
All units have been asked to pay attention to monitor the flightschedule, frequency and density of flight operations in each time frame andarrange personnel to ensure airport services.
Airlines and ground service units have been required to increasepersonnel to guide and support passengers in a bid to prevent flightdelays.
Aviation security will pay special attention to thesecurity area in lobby B in the early morning of December 31, 2022 to avoidcongestion.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said itwill enhance aviation security control to Level 1 for the upcomingholidays.
Under Level 1 aviation security control, people will not beallowed to enter the restricted area to pick up and see off passengers,and inspections of personal documents and personal interviews whendoing aviation security procedures will be strengthened. Passengers will berequired to remove their shoes and coats, and put them through the X-raymachine.
Airport security will randomly check 15% of passengerswho pass through the magnetic gate without triggering thealarm and 15% of hand baggage and checked baggage which have beenX-rayed without questionable images.
Aviation security surveillance cameraswill strengthen monitoring at different areas of the airport anddaily reports will be sent to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam.
According to Tien, the Tan Son Nhat International Airportwill likely receive the highest number of passengersin four years during the peak of Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).
Some 820 flights with 130,000 passengers are expected to departfrom and arrive at the airport per day.
The number of passengers is forecasted to be the most crowdedduring two days – nearly 123,000 on January 20, 2023 and more than144,000 people on January 29, 2023 when people return to their hometowns before Tet and head back to HCM City after Tet holiday.
As expected, the airport will welcome more than 3.8 millionpassengers with nearly 27,000 flights during the holiday, an increase of nearly10% compared to the same period in 2019./.
VNA
