Amid the current complicated situation of Covid-19 pandemic, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly yesterday approved the Government's proposal to extend time for the 30 percent reduction in the environmental protection tax on aviation fuel through 2021. 

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and low-cost airlines such as Jetstar Pacific and Vietjet Air yesterday planned to cancel and  temporarily delay some domestic flights from and to Nha Trang, Phu Yen, Quy Nhon, Pleiku, Buon Ma Thuot, Da Nang, Da Lat due to an influence of typhoon Matmo hitting the South- Central region. 

New-age carrier Vietjet Air launched a service connecting Hanoi and Tokyo, Japan, on January 11.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has set up seven teams to keep special watch over the budget carrier Vietjet Air from December 28, 2018 to January 15, 2019.

The Ministry of Transport has ordered an urgent investigation into the latest incident at Vietjet Air when flight VJ689 of the budget carrier landed in a wrong runway at Cam Ranh International Airport in the south central province of Khanh Hoa at noon December 25. 

Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific and Vietjet Air have announced to reschedule flights from/to airports in Hai Phong city and Nghe An and Thanh Hoa provinces on August 17 as a result of Typhoon Bebinca.

The low-cost carrier Vietjet Air is finalizing procedures to launch a direct air route between Vietnam’s northern port city of Hai Phong to Busan in the Republic of Korea (RoK), reported the Vietnam Investment Review.