Travellers preparing for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays are facing higher fares and a shortage of tickets, with some flyers having to book late evening flights, or book early or late, to save money on domestic routes.
Passengers check in at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City.(Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Travellerspreparing for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays are facing higher faresand a shortage of tickets, with some flyers having to book late eveningflights, or book early or late, to save money on domestic routes.
Thu Ha, who works for a bank in Ho Chi MinhCity, had to pay more than 20 million VND (more than 880 USD) for three returnflights on Vietnam Airlines to Da Nang for a family reunion during thetraditional Tet festival.
Thu Ha will depart three days before Tet andreturn 10 days after the first day of Tet. “This year’s airfare ismuch higher than in previous years,” Ha said.
A man named Vinh from HCM City’s Phu Nhuan districtsaid he paid for a flight at 10am, but it was recently changed to an earlyevening flight.
Many other passengers were facing the samechallenges.
Hung, an air ticket sales agent from Nha Trang cityin the central province of Khanh Hoa, said that passengers flying with low-costairlines were facing the same situation.
Budget carrier Vietjet Air has announced thattickets for its HCM City-Vinh flights between January 29 and February 1 (threedays before Tet) have sold out. Tickets on February 3 cost over 2.8million VND.
Similarly, Jetstar Pacific said there were nomore tickets on its four daily flights from HCM City to Vinh between January 31and February 2.
These three airlines have sold out HCM City-Hueflights between January 29 and February 2. However, tickets are still availableon these dates for flights from HCM City to Da Nang, Nha Trang and Hanoi.
Tickets remain available for HCM City-Hanoiflights during the same period because there were many more flights on thisroute.
The number of air passengers during the New Yearand Tet holidays are expected to rise by 11 percent comparedwith the previous year, according to forecasts from the Civil AviationAuthority of Vietnam (CAAV).
CAAV has also asked agencies in the aviationsector to gather resources to meet passengers’ rising demand for transport.
Dinh Viet Thang, head of CAAV, said carrierswould add 32 airplanes during the holiday period, bringing the number ofaircraft used for domestic flights from 158 to over 180.
Jestar Pacific said the carrier would add 80,000seats for domestic flights over the period, and will have more flights on the Hanoi-CanTho route, using Airbus aircraft.-VNS/VNA
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Passengers check in at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City.(Photo: VNA) 
