Can Tho-Bangkok air service enters hiatus

The air route was launchedon a trial basis on July 21 as the outcome of cooperation between CanTho authorities, leading Vietnamese tour operator Vietravel, the ThaiAdministration of Tourism and the Thai Vietjet Air.

However, Director for the southwest region of Vietravel Truong VanVinh said that during the trial period, there was an increase in thenumber of passengers from Can Tho to Bangkok but a strong decrease inthe number of passengers from Bangkok to Can Tho.

As such, the company decided to close the air route and will resumeservices around the Lunar New Year, which will fall in February nextyear, and the summer of 2016 to serve people in the region, he added.

Can Tho airport, one of two airports in the MekongDelta region, handled over 225,000 passengers in the first six monthsof this year, a rise of 72 percent annually but far lower than itsdesigned capacity of 3 million passengers per year.

Currently, the airport is serving regular flights to Hanoi, Da Nang,Phu Quoc, Da Lat and Con Dao, and to Taipei (China’s Taiwan) during theLunar New Year holiday.

Can Tho-Bangkok air service enters hiatus

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