Aviation authority proposes full resumption of domestic flights from 2022

The Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam (CAAV) has proposed the resumption of normal operation of all domestic air routes from the beginning of 2022.

According to the Authority’s proposal submitted to the Ministry of Transport, the number of two-way flights on Ha Noi – Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi – Da Nang, and HCM City – Da Nang routes will be increased to 16 per day per route during December 1-14, and to 20 per day per route from December 15-31.

Meanwhile, the number of two-way flights on other routes will be no more than nine flights per day per route. 

Since 2022, all domestic air routes will be resumed normally.  

Between October 21 and November 26, four domestic airlines, excluding Vietravel Airlines, had restored domestic flights, with a total of 979 round-trip flights carrying 170,200 passengers on 42 domestic air routes to 22 airports nationwide.  

All passengers must be fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19, or having a negative test certificate for SARS-CoV-2 issued within 72 hours before departure.

At present, most domestic routes can only operate one flight per day.

However, the current flight plan is only applicable until November 30 this year, so airlines would have difficulty in planning to operate in the winter 2021/2022 flight schedule, especially during the Lunar New Year of 2022. 

They also proposed adjusting regulations on transferring passenger information from the PC-COVID application directly between the Ministry of Information and Communications and localities. Airlines do not need to transfer passenger destination information to the local authorities.

With the latest proposal, localities can update passenger information by themselves every 30 minutes from the PC-COVID application.