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Near Tet 2024, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam urgently added more slots at Tan Son Nhat airport

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Increase slot operations at Tan Son Nhat airport during the 2024 Tet peak

To serve the increased travel needs of people during the 2024 Lunar New Year peak, The Vietnam Aviation Administration has continued to adjust coordination parameters at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Accordingly, the leaders of the Civil Aviation Authority decided to increase the parameters of runway coordination at Tan Son Nhat during the daytime hours (6:00 a.m. to 11:55 p.m.) from 44 slots/hour to 46 slots/hour, during the night hours. (0h-5h55) from 40 slots/hour to 42 slots/hour. The slot increase applies from February 1 to February 21 (ie from December 22 to January 12).

In addition, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam also adjusted to increase the coordination parameters of the domestic terminal area at Tan Son Nhat from February 1, 2024 to February 21, 2024, such as takeoff hall A from 13 to 15. flights/hour; Departure hall B from 11 to 13 flights/hour; Domestic landings from 20 to 22 flights/hour.

The Civil Aviation Authority continues to adjust slot coordination parameters at Tan Son Nhat airport. Photo: Gia Linh

Notably, the additional slots due to adjusting dispatch parameters will focus mainly from Ho Chi Minh City to airports with high booking rates such as Pleiku, Quy Nhon, Chu Lai, Buon Ma Thuot, Hue, Tuy Hoa. Hoa, Thanh Hoa, Da Nang, Quang Binh, Hai Phong, Vinh…

The Department of Aviation requires airlines to urgently coordinate additional slots for flight routes. In addition, during the peak season of Tet, airlines deploy to their affiliated units to ensure compliance with regulations to minimize the occupation of take-off and landing runways.

Units continue to coordinate with many localities to well organize transportation between airports, airports and cities, ensuring good service for passengers on night flights.

Near Tet 2024, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam urgently added more slots at Tan Son Nhat airport - Photo 3.

Airlines can add about 10,000 seats/day at Tan Son Nhat during Tet. Photo: Gia Linh

It is known that this is the second time the Civil Aviation Authority has decided to continue adjusting slot coordination parameters at Tan Son Nhat airport. It is estimated that this increase in coordination parameters is confirmed by Vietnamese airlines to add 48 slots/day, equivalent to about 10,000 seats/day at Tan Son Nhat to localities. From there, it contributes to relieve the scarcity of air tickets for Tet, meeting the travel needs of people.

Previously, Tan Son Nhat International Airport said that during the peak service period of Lunar New Year 2024, (from January 26, 2024 to February 24, 2024), the unit expected to have about 860-900 departure and arrival flights, about 135,000-140,000 passengers/day.

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The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam proposed to increase vehicles to serve people flying at night during the Lunar New Year 2024

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The Aviation Department requires that there be no shortage of facilities to serve passengers

During this year’s Lunar New Year peak, the number of overnight passengers is expected to increase dramatically. Reported by airlines, the demand for operating night flights to serve people returning home to celebrate Tet through Dong Hoi, Phu Cat, Chu Lai, Tuy Hoa, Tho Xuan, Vinh, and Pleiku airports is quite high.

It is known that the demand for night operations during the 2024 Lunar New Year period (from January 21 to February 25, 2024 in the time frame from 9:00 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) is expected to reach more than 1,800 flights, accounting for about 8% compared to the total number of domestic flights operated throughout the network.

Regarding the issue of serving people traveling during the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin, the Vietnam Aviation Administration has just sent a document to the People’s Committees of the provinces: Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Binh Dinh; Phu Yen and Gia Lai on enhanced coordination during the Tet peak.

The number of passengers flying overnight during the Lunar New Year 2024 will increase. Photo: Gia Linh

Accordingly, the Vietnam Aviation Administration has directed airlines, airports, and aviation service providers to review the entire process and develop service plans. Units arrange human resources, infrastructure, equipment, and vehicles at the airport, ensuring readiness for exploitation plans, ensuring order and safety of air traffic. The purpose is to meet and serve the travel needs of the people well, not to let passengers return home to celebrate Tet late due to lack of vehicles.

Department leaders said that, according to data reported by airlines and to meet the travel needs of the people, the Department has granted flight licenses to airlines to add more flights to/from airports. no, focus on mining hours at night.

However, to meet and serve the people’s travel needs well, while ensuring security, order, and operational safety at airports, the Department proposed that the People’s Committees of the provinces direct the Department of Transport Review and request units operating bus routes to/from airports to plan and increase operating frequency and operating time of bus routes to/from airports. Especially at night time according to the night operating time of the airports.

In addition, other transportation service providers in the area such as taxis and technology vehicles are required to increase operating hours and increase the number of vehicles arriving at the airport to serve customers in need, especially are passengers on night flights to/from airports.

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The Civil Aviation Authority requests additional night buses to airports for the Lunar New Year 2024. Photo: Gia Linh

At the same time, direct inspection and examination agencies, units, and local police to coordinate with Airport Authorities and Airports to strengthen inspection, supervision, and maintain security and order at the airport. airports, promptly handle emerging situations and emergencies; Promptly detect and strictly handle organizations and individuals involved in the parachute situation, the situation of attracting passengers, forcing passengers on prices and increasing ticket prices in contravention of regulations.

Previously, the Civil Aviation Authority said that during the peak period of Lunar New Year 2024, the total number of flights is expected to reach approximately 33,800, an increase of 14% over the same period last year and an increase of 21% compared to the current regular flight schedule. Of which, domestic flights are expected to reach 24,200 flights, international flights are expected to reach 9,600 flights.

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Airlines add 472 flights, Tet air tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to localities are still scarce

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Some golden routes from Ho Chi Minh City have nearly “sold out” Tet air tickets

Lunar New Year 2024 is less than a month away, the situation of airfare prices, number of flights… is a hot issue of concern to many workers in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Vietnam Aviation Administration said that compared to the early period of January 2024, airlines have added 472 flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to local airports. This number corresponds to nearly 92,155 seats, to meet the travel needs of passengers.

On January 14, Dan Viet’s survey showed that Tet air tickets for some golden routes from Ho Chi Minh City connecting localities such as Thanh Hoa, Vinh, Hanoi… were added by airlines. In particular, many flights at night and early morning have opened for ticket sales, helping passengers have more choices. However, airfare prices are still at sky-high levels.

For example, flight tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi on February 4, 2024 (December 25) of Vietnam Airlines have 35 flights open for sale. There are many flights at night such as 2:35 a.m., 3:25 a.m., 3:45 a.m. Most of the night flights still have regular tickets priced at 3.5 million VND. Meanwhile, flights during the best hours of the day (morning, noon and afternoon) have sold out of regular tickets, with only business tickets remaining at a price of nearly 10 million VND/ticket.

Airlines add many night flights during Tet. Photo: Gia Linh

Meanwhile, on the same flight route, Vietjet Air has a larger number of tickets for sale with a series of night flights being operated. Most flights have all ticket classes available.

Accordingly, the airline’s flight ticket price from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi is priced at 3.4 million for Eco ticket class (no checked baggage); 3.8 million for economy class and 4.6 million for Skyboss class.

Another representative, Bamboo Airways, is selling the above flight for 3.4-3.5 million/economy ticket and 8-9.5 million/business ticket (depending on time frame). Night and early morning flights have lower prices than flights during good times of the day.

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Tet air tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Vinh (Nghe An), Thanh Hoa… are still very scarce. Photo: Gia Linh

Notably, on golden routes from Ho Chi Minh City to Thanh Hoa and Vinh (Nghe An), the air ticket situation is quite tense for all airlines. Most of the flights still available for sale are quite limited and economy class tickets are almost sold out.

Accordingly, Vietnam Airlines on February 4, 2024 (December 25) only has 2 flights open for sale, including flights in the early morning hours. However, economy class tickets have been “sold out”, with only business tickets remaining for nearly 6 million VND. On the following days, a large number of flights are available for sale.

Notably, on February 7, 2024 (ie December 28, the official Tet holiday according to regulations), there is only 1 flight left for sale at nearly 6 million VND/business class.

Meanwhile, on the same flight route above, Vietjet Air almost sold out flight tickets from February 4-6, 2024 (December 25 to 27). On the remaining days, there are only a few scattered flights with tickets available in the early morning hours for 3.5-4.6 million VND.

On the Ho Chi Minh City – Vinh route of Vietnam Airlines, the number of flights in the pre-Tet period is quite abundant, but no economy class tickets are available for sale. Passengers buying tickets during this period mainly take connecting flights (2 legs) for 5.3-13.3 million/depending on ticket class.

Meanwhile, this route is quite stressful for Vietjet Air as the airline has “sold out” flight tickets from February 2-7, 2024 (ie December 23 to 28). On other days close to Tet, there are still a few tickets on sale for 3.5-4.6 million VND.

Increase night flights to serve people during Tet

According to the Vietnam Aviation Administration, during the 2024 Lunar New Year peak, airlines are expected to supply 5.5 million seats on domestic routes, an increase of 4% over the same period. On the international flight network, airlines plan to supply 2.1 million seats, an increase of 36.8% over the same period.

To better serve travel needs, recently, Vietnam Airlines Group (including Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines, VASCO) announced an increase of more than 100,000 seats, equivalent to nearly 550 flights. From there, bringing the total number to 2.1 million seats with 10,700 flights for the Tet peak season from January 25 to February 24, 2024 (ie from December 15, Quy Mao year to January 15, Giap Thin year). ). Bamboo Airways also announced the addition of 2 aircraft, increasing capacity to serve the peak of the New Year and Lunar New Year 2024.

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Airlines plan to supply 5.5 million seats during the Lunar New Year 2024. Photo: Gia Linh

Although airlines have increased their load, the Tet ticket situation on some golden routes is still quite tense. Faced with the above situation, the Aviation Administration has asked units to increase service capacity and operate more night flights.

Accordingly, the Civil Aviation Authority said that the expected demand for night operations during the Lunar New Year period in 2024 (from January 21 to February 25 in the time frame from 9:00 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) will reach more than 1.8 thousand flights. flights, accounting for about 8% of the total number of domestic flights operated throughout the network.

Currently, people’s bookings for the 2024 Dragon Festival (from January 24, 2024 to February 25, 2024) have increased quite high. Especially in the period before the Lunar New Year, the number of tourists from Ho Chi Minh City buying tickets to the Northern and Central provinces increased sharply.

In particular, flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang, Ban Me Thuot, Hai Phong, Hue, Pleiku, Tuy Hoa, Quy Nhon, Chu Lai, Quang Binh, Quang Ninh, Vinh, Thanh Hoa have a booking rate close to like over 90%.

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Many international routes have sharply increased their exploitation output

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Many international routes have been restored

According to the 2023 summary report, the Vietnam Aviation Administration said that in the past year, the Department has deployed a series of solution groups to develop transport activities in general as well as restore international air transport in general. private.

Among them, the highlight is supporting the operations of airlines in restructuring their apparatus; Arrange and stabilize finances, aircraft fleets, human resources and remove difficulties for Vietnamese airlines in their operations.

The total air transport market in 2023 is estimated to reach approximately 74 million passengers, an increase of 34.5% compared to 2022 and equal to 93.6% compared to 2019 (before the Covid-19 epidemic) and 1.1 million tons of cargo. goods, down 9.3% compared to 2022 and equal to 87.3% compared to 2019. International passenger transport reached 32 million passengers, an increase of 1.7 times compared to 2022 and equal to 77% compared to 2019.

Many international routes have been re-operated in recent times. Photo: Gia Linh

The Department’s leaders assessed that the international flight network has been restored and gradually expanded. Vietnamese and foreign airlines have completely restored flight routes to traditional markets and expanded operations to a number of new markets in Central Asia such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Mongolia.

Although still limited, in 2023, flights to China and Russia have also been restored.

Notably, some routes connect to countries with strong growth in exploitation output. For example, flights to the Indian market in 2023 will transport 920 thousand passengers, an increase of nearly 15 times compared to 2019; Flights to Australia in 2023 will transport 913 thousand passengers, an increase of 40% compared to 2019.

The Civil Aviation Authority said that currently, according to the winter 2023/2024 flight schedule, 63 foreign airlines and 5 Vietnamese airlines exploit the international market with 169 regular international routes and charter flights connecting 28 countries and territories in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa to Vietnam’s destinations such as Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Cam Ranh, Phu Quoc, and Da Lat.

The airline actively increased flights, connecting many international routes

As for the airlines, Vietnam Airlines said that recently, in order to meet the increasing travel needs of passengers, the airline continued to increase frequency on many routes to Europe, Australia and China.

Specifically, Vietnam Airlines has increased the frequency of flights between Hanoi and Beijing, Hanoi and Melbourne, opened a new route Ho Chi Minh City – Perth… Thereby, the airline has restored nearly 90% of network frequency. international flight.

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Passengers check in for international flights. Photo: Gia Linh

Meanwhile, Vietjet Air is also actively restoring the international flight network by operating routes Ho Chi Minh City – Tiruchirappalli (India), Hanoi – Jakarta and increasing the frequency of routes Hanoi – Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City – Bali… In addition, the airline also opened a series of flights connecting Hanoi with Hong Kong (China), Phu Quoc with Taipei (Taiwan, China) and Busan (Korea), Ho Chi Minh City with Adelaide and Perth (Australia) to serve people’s travel needs.

Leaders of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam assessed that in 2023, despite facing many difficulties and challenges, Vietnamese airlines have proactively changed and tried to adapt to the business environment. many fluctuations.

Airlines have implemented many solutions to stabilize and develop production and business activities, including focusing on restoring and developing flight networks and aviation markets, thereby increasing revenue and supplementing cash flow for airlines. production and business activities… In particular, airlines have made efforts to restore international flight networks and connect trade between countries.

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International passenger transport in 2023 will reach 32 million passengers. Photo: Gia Linh

According to forecasts of the Civil Aviation Authority and Vietnamese airlines, the demand for air passenger transportation in 2024 is 80 million passengers, of which 38.3 million domestic passengers and 41.7 million international passengers.

Vietnamese airlines are expected to transport an estimated 58 million passengers (equivalent to 2023). Of which, the number of domestic passengers is 38.5 million (down 10.5% compared to 2023), the number of international passengers is 19.5 million (up 30% compared to 2023).

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Vietnamese aviation still has many difficulties to fully recover

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Aviation is showing signs of recovery

After a period of almost freezing due to the impact of the epidemic, the aviation industry has begun to prosper when domestic and international passenger output shows signs of growth. According to the Civil Aviation Authority, the air transport market has been showing signs of recovery but has not met expectations. Accordingly, the total air transport market in 2023 is estimated to reach approximately 74 million passengers and 1.1 million tons of goods.

This output increases by 34.5% in passengers but decreases by 9.3% in goods compared to 2022. Compared to 2019 (before the Covid-19 epidemic), there is a decrease of 7.4% in passengers and 12% in goods. % of goods.

In the first 10 months of 2023, Vietnamese airlines carried out more than 241 thousand flights, of which, the number of flights taking off on time was 204 thousand, accounting for 85%.

Airline passengers are recovering. Photo: Gia Linh

Leaders of the Civil Aviation Authority said that the aviation industry continues to face many challenges and difficulties in 2023. Specifically, high fuel prices in the context of the air transport market not yet fully recovering have continued. creating many difficulties for airlines and aviation service providers, increasing delays in service payments between airlines and service providers under contracts between units. This affects the continuous operations of the aviation industry and affects passengers.

In fact, in recent times, airlines have made great efforts to adjust their business strategies, restructure, cut costs… Some airlines have even increased the sale of in-flight meals to increase revenue. However, the after-tax profits of cashew companies are modest numbers, of which the airlines are still negative numbers.

Explaining the reason, airlines said the main reason is because of escalating prices and “inflated” fuel costs, causing difficulties for airlines. Accordingly, in the price structure, fuel usually accounts for 25-28% of exploitation costs.

According to an airline, the average fuel price in 2023 compared to 2015 has increased by 58.6%. Accordingly, fuel prices increase from an average price of 67.37 USD/barrel in 2015 to 106.86 USD/barrel in 2023. Meanwhile, jet fuel prices only need to increase or decrease by 1 USD/barrel to be effective. This year’s fuel costs may increase/decrease by about 224 billion VND, respectively.

In addition, factors such as interest rates and exchange rates are also “obstacles” that make it difficult for airlines to recover. Because most air transportation costs are in foreign currency, ticket sales revenue in Vietnam is in Vietnam Dong.

Serving people’s travel needs well during the peak Tet holiday season

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has identified the immediate goals of units needing to improve their capacity to better serve the travel needs of people during the peak time of Tet. Accordingly, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam requested Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to review and urge the construction unit to complete the repair and upgrade of construction items according to the approved plan. , ensuring completion and return of the site to exploitation before the peak period of Lunar New Year.

Proactively review licensed transport units (taxis, etc.) at airports, increase the number of vehicles transporting/picking up passengers at airports when operating night flights; It is necessary to proactively coordinate and request in writing the Department of Transport of localities to direct increased means of transporting/picking up passengers at airports when operating night flights.

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Airlines are ready to plan to serve the Tet peak. Photo: Gia Linh

In addition, airlines are required to proactively provide information, communication, and guide passengers on procedures when flying (check-in procedures; aviation security screening, especially when passengers arrive in countries with special requirements for aviation security control) to disseminate and raise awareness of passengers when participating in air transport.

Manage flight schedules, strictly comply with confirmed slots according to daily flight plans, implement solutions to reduce flight delays and cancellations, and increase the rate of on-time flights. Coordinate closely and promptly with airports to update daily flight plans, avoid causing difficulties and waste in the service of service providers at airports, and manage flight operations. .

Notably, airlines strictly implement the provisions of law and transportation regulations related to the carrier’s obligations in case of delay or cancellation of flights; Receive and process feedback from passengers and people about the airline’s transportation activities quickly and promptly, especially during the Lunar New Year peak.

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