Friday, 24/02/2023 18:20 (GMT+7)
(CPV) – The number of flights and passengers rose 91.5% in the first two months of this year, but cargo transport decreased 14.2%, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
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| Number of air passengers increased sharply in the first two months. (Photo: CPV) |
Accordingly, the output of flight operations to or from in the first two months reached 78.800 flights, up 62.3% over the same period in 2022; operating transit flights reached 35.400 flights, up 79.9%.
The number of flights topped 78,800 in the period, up 62.3% over the same period in 2022.
The passenger volume through airports reached 19.7 million between January and February, an increase of 91.5% year-on-year. Of the figure, 4.7 million were foreigners, a year-on-year increase of nearly 2,000%, while the number of domestic passengers saw an increase of 48%.
Meanwhile, cargo reached 168,000 tonnes, a rise of 28.2% compared to the same period of last year.
Vietnamese airlines transported 9.8 million passengers and 42,500 tonnes of cargo, an increase of 91.9% and a decline of 14.2%, respectively, compared to the same period last year./.
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