Many flights from Ho Chi Minh City to other localities during the beginning of the 2025 Lunar New Year holiday (from January 21 to January 28, 2025) have had a booking rate of 90-100%.
Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam just got information about booking status on domestic flights during Lunar New Year 2025.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, during the period starting the Lunar New Year holiday 2025 (from January 21 to January 28, 2025), the booking rate on flights from HCMC to the rapidly growing localities.
In particular, some routes have reached over 90-100% booking rate from December 23-27 of the lunar calendar such as: Ho Chi Minh City - Hue (100%), Ho Chi Minh City - Pleiku (100%), Ho Chi Minh City - Tuy Hoa (100%), Ho Chi Minh City - Quy Nhon (100%), Ho Chi Minh City - Quang Binh (100%), Ho Chi Minh City - Thanh Hoa (100%), Ho Chi Minh City - Vinh (100%),...
There are still many seats available on the days before and after this period. On the other hand, during this period, the booking rate is very low, only from 5-30% depending on the route and day. Airlines operate many empty flights to transport passengers from Ho Chi Minh City to the Northern and Central provinces.
At the end of the holiday, after the Lunar New Year (period from January 30 to February 7, 2025), on flights from localities back to Ho Chi Minh City, the booking rate is similar to the period before Tet, some days on the routes have a booking rate of reaching or approaching 100% such as: Pleiku - Ho Chi Minh City, Tuy Hoa - Ho Chi Minh City, Thanh Hoa - Ho Chi Minh City, Quy Nhon - Ho Chi Minh City, Chu Lai - Ho Chi Minh City Dong Hoi - Ho Chi Minh City, Ban Me Thuot - Ho Chi Minh City, Vinh - Ho Chi Minh City ...
As a rule and similar to the period before Tet, the booking rate in the opposite direction is very low and airlines also have to operate many empty flights during this period.
For the main routes such as Ho Chi Minh City - Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi , Hanoi - Da Nang, Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City, the occupancy rate in the period from January 25, 2025 to February 2, 2025 (ie December 26 to January 5 of the lunar calendar) is still not high, reaching an average of 35-40%. Particularly on January 25, 2025, on the Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi route, the occupancy rate is high, over 80%.
Tourist flights from Hanoi to the Central and Southern provinces such as Da Nang, Cam Ranh, Phu Quoc, Da Lat, Binh Dinh, etc. before and after Tet still have many seats with an occupancy rate of 20-50% depending on the day and flight route.
Recently, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has continued to adjust and increase the parameters for coordinating take-off and landing times (slots) at international airports. Tan Son Nhat. Specifically, from January 21, 2025 to February 9, 2025, the number of flights taking off and landing will be increased to 48 flights/hour during the day and 46 flights/hour at night.
The additional slots due to the increased coordination parameters have been confirmed by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam for Vietnamese airlines to supplement the supply capacity on currently full routes from Ho Chi Minh City to the Central and Northern provinces such as Vinh, Dong Hoi, Thanh Hoa, Hue, Chu Lai, Pleiku, Buon Me Thuot...
Airlines will also arrange more night flights to local airports and adjust their operating schedules to add more flights during peak days, days with 100% booking rates at present.
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