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Vietnam Airlines conducted many rescue flights, bringing Vietnamese nationals trapped in many countries back to their home countries safely – Photo: VNA
The above information was announced by Vietnam Airlines on its official website in early September 2020. Meanwhile, Vietjet and Bamboo Airways have not announced cost figures for these flights.
According to Vietnam Airlines, to make the return flight, the airline has mobilized all resources, calculated optimal options to ensure the health of passengers and solve unusual situations …
Therefore, rescue flights are usually quite expensive when they have to install more medical equipment to support patients such as air purifiers, ventilators, field hospital beds …
Even to quickly release passengers and comply with the regulations of countries such as the USA and Canada, the airline has to hire a lawyer, a consulting partner to apply for a flight license, with a flight the airline has to spend up to 700 million VND. (about 30,000 USD).
Or pay the ground service fee, refuel … many times more than usual. For example, on a return flight from the US, the airline paid more than 1.4 billion for ground service, almost 2.2 billion in fuel costs and many other costs.
Not to mention, the whole way to the rescue was an empty plane because there was no commercial operation, only the one-way ticket to fly back to Vietnam was collected. Returning labor must be isolated for 14 days, some aircraft have to shut down for 2-3 days after returning to sterilize and maintain … thus increasing the cost to the airline.
Share with Online youthAs a Vietnam Airlines leader said that the airline’s rescue flights conducted from April to the present represent the role and duties of the airline, the tickets collected from the “rescue” flight were negligible compared to the expenses. single flight fares that get citizens home safely.
Currently, the airlines are waiting for the Government to “finalize” the plan and time to return to commercial flights with 6 international routes such as Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Laos and Cambodia.
According to the airline’s assessment, when commercial flights return, it will be an opportunity to “live again” when there is international revenue after many months of broken revenue, losing billions of VND due to COVID-19.
