May 16—HANOI ( Vietnam News/ANN) — The aviation market in Vietnam is vibrant and recovering with the number of international visitors increasing five-fold, according to experts.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), in April, the country's airports handled 6.6 million passengers, down 14.3 per cent compared to the same time last year but the number of foreign visitors reached more than 230,000 in April, an impressive increase of 502 per cent over the same period last year when COVID-19 was developing in a complex fashion.
CAAV said Vietnamese airlines transported 3.28 million passengers, including 80,000 foreigners.
Compared to the same period last year, the number of international passengers choosing services of Vietnamese airlines rose 214.7 per cent, while the number of domestic passengers dropped 18.2 per cent.
As for cargo transport, in April, 140,700 tonnes of cargo were transported through Vietnam's airports, up 18.4 per cent year on year. Of this, 27,000 tonnes were transported by domestic airlines.
International shipping reached 15.5 thousand tonnes, up 64.3 per cent and domestic transportation reached 11.5 thousand tonnes, down 38.2 per cent.
In April, passenger and cargo transport through Vietnam's airports still decreased slightly compared to the same period last year, but still marked an amazing recovery compared to the closure time.
Besides, international passenger and freight transport witnessed a remarkable growth while domestic passenger and cargo transportation experienced a significant decline.
Earlier this week the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines announced to increase its flight frequency on eight air routes linking Vietnam with Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) starting May 15.
Thus, three routes to the RoK will be resumed from June 1.
Routes connecting Hà Nội and HCM City with Japan's Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya each will see up to two new flights per week while flights from/to Danang and Tokyo will take to the skies again from July 1.
The carrier said it would operate 25-30 weekly flights from Hanoi and HCM City to major cities of Japan, adding it will add three to four flights per week into routes linking Hanoi and HCM City with Seoul, capital city of the RoK, from May 15.
It is to resume the Hanoi- Busan and Danang-Seoul routes from June 1, and the HCM City-Busan a month later.
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