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Int’l flight passengers up 680% in five months

VGP - Viet Nam’s airports served up to 45.5 million passengers in the first five months of this year, an increase of 37.8 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam (CAAV).

Posts Hoang Ha

May 27, 2023 3:28 PM GMT+7
Int’l passengers through Viet Nam’s airports up 680% in five months - Ảnh 1.

International passengers at Ha Noi-based Noi Bai International Airport

Of the figure, there were 12 million foreigners and 33.4 million local passengers, marking year-on-year rises of 679.6 percent and 33.4 percent, respectively.

In May alone, airports across the country served 9 million passengers, up 3.2 percent from the previous month.

Between January and May, Vietnamese airlines carried 22.4 million people, a year-on-year increase of 36.9 percent. Of the total, there were 16.7 million domestic passengers, up 5.7 percent from 2022.

The volume of foreign passengers reached 5.7 million, an increase of 5,525.1 percent higher than from the corresponding period last year./.