Hanoi (VNA) – The
Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed the Ministry of
Transport increase the frequency of flights to Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK),
and Taiwan (China), given the great demand for returning home among overseas
Vietnamese.
CAAV Director Dinh Viet Thang
cited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying that more than 140,000 overseas
Vietnamese people are planning to return
to the homeland.
Airlines shared the view that
it is necessary to increase flights linking with some markets with high demand
such as Japan, the RoK, and Taiwan, he noted.
Thang said after the Ministry
of Health had issued guidance on anti-pandemic measures, the CAAV on December
17 sent official documents to aviation authorities of Japan, the RoK, Taipei (Taiwan,
China), China, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. These are the destinations
with which the Prime Minister has agreed to resume commercial passenger
flights.
It proposed four flights to
Vietnam per week for each side while flights from Vietnam follow current
regulations, starting January 1, 2022, and the frequency will be adjusted
basing on the COVID-19 situation.
Meanwhile, as only Vietnam
Airlines has been flying to the US and got licensed by both countries’
authorities, this carrier can immediately conduct regular flights as schedule.
Apart from the US, Japan,
Taipei (Taiwan), Singapore, and Cambodia have agreed with Vietnam’s proposal so
far.
Regarding the emergence of
Omicron, the CAAV said all the nine markets Vietnam plans to resume regular
international flights with in the first phase (China, Japan, the RoK, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia,
and the US) have recorded this new variant, and that new rules on Omicron
control will affect all the flights that have been being operated.
The
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