Friday, 22/02/2019 18:41 (GMT+7)
The first flight of T'way Air from Incheon Airport with more than 180 passengers landed at Cam Ranh International Airport in the central province of Khanh Hoa on February 21st.
Passengers presented with palm-leaf conical hat (Non la). (Photo: Khanh Hoa News)
Earlier, on February 20
th, the Korean low-cost carrier coordinated with the airport to launch the Incheon-Cam Ranh air route with one flight a day.
T'way is the 6th carrier providing air services from Incheon to Cam Ranh, along with Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Korean Air, Jeju Air and Eastar Jet.
Currently, the Cam Ranh International Airport receives 42 flights from the Republic of Korea (RoK) with an average of about 200 passengers a flight. The RoK is now the third biggest tourist market in Khanh Hoa, after China and Russia.
According to the Khanh Hoa Department of Tourism, in January 2019, the central province greeted 465,500 tourist arrivals, a 13.5% rise over a year earlier; including 255,000 international tourists, up 27.5%.
This year, the locality targets of welcoming more than 6.8 million tourists, a year-on-year rise of 7%; in which 3.3 million are foreigners, up 18%; earning a revenue of VND22.5 trillion, up 9%./.
Phuong Lan