Noi Bai International Airport has received a rising number of people returning from European countries.

With 40 aircrafts left idle, about 200 pilots of Vietnam Airlines have had few flight hours.

The profit of Vietnam Airlines Corporation will be strongly affected by the spread of COVID-19 in countries around the world, according to the preliminary report of the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC).

Enterprises in the transport sector have suffered the most from the epidemic.

Airlines in Vietnam are looking at ways to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak after seeing declining passenger numbers.

Vietnam Airlines will suspend flights on all routes between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea from March 5, while low-cost carrier Vietjet Air has announced it will temporarily halt flights between the two countries starting March 7.

Vietnamese airlines are having a hard time mitigating the impact of the coronavirus outbreak which is threatening to erase the nascent air-travel boom in the country.

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has severely hurt Vietnam Airlines, with 40% of its aircraft lying idle, senior executives’ salaries being cut by 40% and some representative offices being closed, stated general director Duong Tri Thanh.

Vietnamese carriers saw significant drops in the number of passengers in February due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

All airlines in Vietnam, except Vasco, which flies on short-distance routes, are regularly updating information about their activities and sale promotion programs to attract passengers.

Domestic transport companies have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Vietnam Airlines is preparing to operate a dozen flights to repatriate more than 1,000 Chinese citizens who have got stuck in Danang, Nha Trang and Phu Quoc due to the suspension of air services between Vietnam and China.

Local carriers had incurred total losses of over VND10 trillion as of February 10, Tuoi Tre reported, citing the head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) Dinh Viet Thang.

Flying an empty aircraft for the second time in one week, Hoang, a captain working for a Vietnamese airline, has heard that the airline is incurring big losses because of nCoV.

Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with ST Engineering Aerospace and an Asian carrier on the establishment of a joint venture in airframe maintenance in Vietnam.

Vietnam Airlines will use wide-body aircraft to evacuate a large number of passengers from China’s Hong Kong to Vietnam and vice versa this week, as the new coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak is ravaging the region.

Vietnam Airlines is resuming flights between Vietnam and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (China) as from February 2 after the civil aviation authority permitted the resumption to repatriate affected passengers amid the novel coronavirus (nCoV) epidemic.

Vietnam has great potential for airlines, but it is not easy to access it. Many players have had to give up the game.

The biggest problem of the Vietnam’s aviation industry is overloading at airports, which affects service quality and flight safety.

The Vietnamese aviation market has been recording double-digit growth in the last four years, but the growth rate is slowing.