Update: 15:21 | 23/02/2022
Vietnam has resumed commercial flights to 20 of 28 countries and territories that it had direct flights to before the pandemic.
Regular flights have resumed to the Philippine capital Manila, the 20th destination to which Vietnam has restarted flights post-Covid-19.
About 153,000 foreign passengers flew from/to Vietnam from the time the country launched a pilot programme to resume international flights in January to February 14, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
The Vietnamese aviation industry is currently ready in all aspects to operate the entire international flight network like before the Covid-19 outbreak, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has told Deputy Transport Minister Le Anh Tuan.
From January 31 to February 7, foreign airlines conducted 36 regular and irregular flights transporting 2,055 Vietnamese passengers from Taiwan (China), Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and the Middle East and Turkey back home.
