Airliners increase flights for Tet

January 10, 2012 | 14:23

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National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) said it will offer more services at nighttime during the period of high demand around the coming Lunar New Year, when most airports are overloaded during the rush hours.

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During the period between January 14 and 22, and January 24 and February 2, VNA will offer 24 hour services on the Ho Chi Minh City – Da Nang – Hanoi route.

The first flight will take off at 5:30am, and the last at 11:30pm every day during those periods, the airliner said.

Phan Ngoc Linh, director of VNA’s Tan Son Nhat Operation Control Centre, said on the busiest days during this season of high demand, there are as many as 284 flights departing and arriving at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

VNA will increase services to meet demand, with 155,600 more seats offered on its seven largest air routes by demand, the company said.

In particular, the Hanoi – HCMC – Hanoi route will have as many as 7,000 seats offered in each direction per day, a 103 percent increase compared to normal days. Similarly, there will be 5,000 seats offered in each direction each day on the HCMC – Da Nang – HCMC route.

Five air services connecting HCMC with Hai Phong, Buon Ma Thuot, Pleiku, Quy Nhon, and Nha Trang will also have their number of available seats increased by 34 percent.

Meanwhile, Luu Duc Khanh, CEO of low-cost carrier VietJet Air, said his ariline will increase the number of daily flights connecting HCMC and Hanoi to three from the current two as of today (January 10).

For its part, Air Mekong said it has increased the number of flights in the Lunar New Year by around 25 percent compared with normal schedules.

The Lunar New Year falls on January 23.