Many commercial flights bring Vietnamese home from December 1



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The Vietnam Aviation Administration will organize 33 flights per week to bring back citizens of the countries and territories of Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

On the afternoon of November 30, Mr. Dinh Viet Thang, Director of the Vietnam Aviation Administration, said that the agency had worked with airlines to organize flight packages to bring Vietnamese home in the form of self-pay. full. , from December 1 to January 15, 2021. It is expected to have 33 flights per week from Japan, Korea, Taiwan to 7 points in Vietnam.

According to Thang, the list of citizens who wish to return to their country of origin will be compiled by the Consular Department, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then transferred to the National Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Covid-19. After approval by the Steering Committee, the Vietnam Civil Aviation Administration will grant the official license for these flights and the airlines will organize a combination ticket sale.

Flights to receive Vietnamese citizens will be operated by domestic airlines.  Photo: Thanh Nguyen

Flights to receive Vietnamese citizens will be operated by domestic airlines. Image: Thanh nguyen

Flights operated by Vietnamese airlines only land at Van Don (Quang Ninh), Da Nang, Cam Ranh (Khanh Hoa), Can Tho, Phu Quoc, Tho Xuan (Thanh Hoa), Phu Arena (Quy Nhon) airport.

According to the Aviation Administration, the returnee will pay the airline a service package (combo) that includes airfare, the cost of 15 days of isolation in the hotels designated by the destination of the flight, cost of transportation from the airport to the hotel in quarantine, standard meal rate of 3 meals / day, cost of Covid-19 test.

All citizens after entry will move to the selected hotels, pay and the medical agency will carry out the sampling in the hotels. Citizens will be tested twice after entering and before the 14-day quarantine period expires (if the first is negative).

Since the beginning of April, Vietnam has stopped all trade routes with other countries. After that, several airlines again exploited international flights, but they only carried goods in and out of Vietnam. The flights that carry passengers to Vietnam are carried out with the permission of the authorities, the passengers are citizens with difficult circumstances, experts, businessmen, high-tech workers … and they are eligible. epidemic room cups.

In September, the government allowed the airline industry to resume commercial flights to six countries and territories. However, airlines can only pick up passengers from Vietnam one way, not pick up passengers from the other side because there is no translation control process with people entering. The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam has piloted two international commercial flights from Korea to launch an epidemic control process.

The leader of the Ministry of Health said that this body will issue “Covid-19 isolation medical surveillance and prevention procedures for people entering commercial flights.”

Doan Loan