Record number of Tet flights planned for Tan Son Nhat Airport
Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City will serve a record number of flights at peak hours in the run-up to the Lunar New Year 2018.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam announced the schedule, from January 30 to March 4, up to 44 flights will be permitted at the airport at between 6 pm to midnight. While 37 flights will be scheduled between midnight to 6am am.
Passengers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport
Dang Tuan Tu, director of Tan Son Nhat International Airport, said that this would be the highest number of flights so far.
The passenger numbers are set to increase to 134,207 a day during Tet Holiday at the airport, up by between 16,490 and 17,505 compared to last year.
Tan Son Nhat International Airport is forecasted to welcome more than 4.1 million passengers with 26,288 flights in the run-up to Tet, up 25% and 20% respectively on-year.
Tu added that the authority decided to increase the flights as the airport had been upgraded./.
VNF/Dtinews
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