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  • Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific cut China flights

    Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific cut China flights

    Vietnam Airlines and Jetstar Pacific will stop flights on some routes to China and reduce them on others amidst the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

    National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will suspend routes between Vietnamese localities and China’s Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen cities starting February 4. It will stop flying to and from China’s Chengdu starting February 5, and Macau starting February 6.

    The airline will also suspend flights on the Hanoi-Hong Kong route from February 6 and reduce the number of flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong from 10 to 7 per week starting the same day.

    It will disinfect all aircraft upon returning to Vietnam from China to prevent the spread of 2019-nCoV, which originated in Wuhan City of Hubei Province in mainland China.

    Jetstar Pacific, the budget carrier of Vietnam Airlines, will stop operating flights on the Hanoi-Hong Kong route starting February 6, Hanoi-Guangzhou starting February 9 and HCMC- Guangzhou starting February 11.

    Passengers who wish to fly between the mentioned destinations before the suspension can change dates free of charge or ask for a refund from both airlines.

    Budget carrier Vietjet had earlier announced that it will suspend all China flights starting Saturday.

    Over 30 airlines in the world have suspended all or certain flights to China in the wake of nCoV, which as of Saturday had killed 259 people in the country.

    As of Friday, Vietnam had quarantined 97 people, of whom 32 remain isolated pending test results, according to the Ministry of Health.

    As of Saturday morning, the country has recorded six confirmed cases of infection: two Chinese nationals, and four Vietnamese, including three returning from Wuhan, and a female hotel receptionist who has caught the coronavirus infection from the two Chinese nationals presently quarantined in Saigon.

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  • Vietnamese travel agency intends to invest in sixth airline: CEO

    Vietnamese travel agency intends to invest in sixth airline: CEO

    Vietravel is nurturing a plan to launch its own airline to meet the demand that it predicts will keep rising in the future. The company’s CEO Nguyen Quoc Ky said the domestic aviation market is still “full of potential.” With a population of more than 100 million and the number of foreign visitors rising steadily year after year, hitting the highest ever at 15.5 million last year, it is still modest for Vietnam to have only five airlines, he said recently.

    Vietravel wants to have its airline headquartered in the central town of Hue, he added.

    “The plan of Vietravel will help create more new flight routes to and from Hue, and thus connect the city with more tourists,” said Nguyen Van Phuc, deputy director of Thua Thien – Hue Province, home to the imperial town of Hue.

    This will also get along with a plan to upgrade Phu Bai International Airport in Hue to raise its annual capacity from 1.5 million passengers to 5 million.

    Vietravel has taken the first steps into the airline industry through organizing charter flights with its partners.

    For the past two years, it has operated around 300 charter flights both domestically and internationally each year.

    Vietnam’s newest airline, Bamboo Airway, recently completed its maiden flight.

    The four other carriers currently in Vietnam are Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar Pacific, and VASCO.

    Together, the four of them transport more than 50 million passengers last year, up 14 percent against 2017, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

    The number of passengers through Vietnam airports during the year increased 12.9 percent to 106 million passengers.

    is nurturing a plan to launch its own airline to meet the demand that it predicts will keep rising in the future. The company’s CEO Nguyen Quoc Ky said the domestic aviation market is still “full of potential.” With a population of more than 100 million and the number of foreign visitors rising steadily year after year, hitting the highest ever at 15.5 million last year, it is still modest for Vietnam to have only five airlines, he said recently.

    Vietravel wants to have its airline headquartered in the central town of Hue, he added.

    “The plan of Vietravel will help create more new flight routes to and from Hue, and thus connect the city with more tourists,” said Nguyen Van Phuc, deputy director of Thua Thien – Hue Province, home to the imperial town of Hue.

    This will also get along with a plan to upgrade Phu Bai International Airport in Hue to raise its annual capacity from 1.5 million passengers to 5 million.

    Vietravel has taken the first steps into the airline industry through organizing charter flights with its partners.

    For the past two years, it has operated around 300 charter flights both domestically and internationally each year.

    Vietnam’s newest airline, Bamboo Airway, recently completed its maiden flight.

    The four other carriers currently in Vietnam are Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar Pacific, and VASCO.

    Together, the four of them transport more than 50 million passengers last year, up 14 percent against 2017, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

    The number of passengers through Vietnam airports during the year increased 12.9 percent to 106 million passengers.

  • Jetstar Pacific leads in flight cancellations, delays

    Jetstar Pacific leads in flight cancellations, delays

    Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific has cancelled and delayed about 15.4 percent of 568 flights it operated in a week, according to the latest report released by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAA).

    The CAA calculated the number of delays and cancelations in four Vietnamese carriers – Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Jetstar Pacific and Vasco from May 31 to June 6.

    Jetstar Pacific was closely followed by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines which delayed 380 flights and cancelled ten others, or approximately 15 percent, out of a total of 2,605 weekly flights.

    VietJet Air came third with 328 delays and four cancellations among 2,311 flights, or 14.4 percent.

    Vasco had no cancellation and only one delay out of 249 flights.

    There were 5,733 flights made available by the four airlines during the first week of June, of which 810 were delayed and cancelled, the CAA announced, adding that delays and cancellations accounted for 13.8 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.

    Late arrival of planes before they take off again for return services was the main cause behind the problems, the CAA explained. Such a reason caused 69.1 percent of the delays and cancellations during the reviewed period.

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  • Jetstar Pacific to source A320 components from AFI KLM E&M

    Jetstar Pacific to source A320 components from AFI KLM E&M

    Low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific has struck a long-term deal with Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) under which the latter will provide component support for Jetstar Pacific’s Airbus A320 aircraft.

    Under the contract, AFI KLM E&M will also provide Jetstar Pacific with repair services and a spares pool to ensure spare parts and necessary materials are ready for maintenance and repair work.

    The deal will take effect this month.

    Speaking at the signing ceremony, Nguyen Quoc Phuong, General Director of Jetstar Pacific, said the cooperation with AFI KLM E&M, a leading partner in the air industry, will bring significant improvements in maintenance costs and duration, thus help the airline create more timely and comfortable flight experience for customers.

    Jetstar Pacific, with two major shareholders of Vietnam Airlines and Qantas of Australia’s Qantas Airway, now has a fleet of 14 Airbus A320 planes, which is expected to increase to 30 by 2021.

    According to Fabrice Defrance, Senior Vice President of AFI KLM E&M, the contract between Jetstar Pacific and AFI KLM E&M marks the beginning of a long-term cooperation between the two sides and affirms the strong presence of the company in Asia.

    AFI KLM E&M has been providing support for nearly 2,000 planes operated by 200 airlines across the world.