The Noi Bai international airport in Hanoi is expected to serve 450 flights and up to 80,000 passengers on the peak day during the travel season for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday (Tet) – Vietnam’s biggest and longest traditional festival.

The total number of air passengers passing through domestic airports will reach 80% of the peak in 2019, said Dinh Viet Thang, director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

VOV.VN - Large crowds formed at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on September 1 as people flocked to tourist destinations across the country to enjoy the National Day holiday.

VOV.VN - Vietnam Airlines flight VN89 touched down a Noi Bai airport runway at 11.27am (local time) on March 8, bringing home 287 Vietnamese people fleeing war zones in Ukraine.

The Hanoi People’s Court on January 7 sentenced Kang Joon-ho, a 74-year-old man from the Republic of Korea (RoK), to six years in prison for arranging illegal exit for Vietnamese citizens.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) reported that approximately 1.1 million tonnes of goods were transported overseas by air in 2021, an annual increase of 21.3%.

VOV.VN - A Vietjet Air pilot has been temporarily suspended from flying after recently causing a collision with another Vietjet Air plane at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi.

The upgrade of Terminal T2 of Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi will need more than VND4.98 trillion (US$218.5 million) so as to raise its annual capacity of receiving from 10 million to 15 million passengers, according to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV).

Bus companies, railway and airline firms have been struggling to survive amid the impacts of COVID-19 for a year and a half.

Domestic airports welcomed close to 1.5 million air travellers from April 28 to May 2, the peak travel period around the four-day public holidays marking the National Reunification (April 30) and May Day (May 1), according to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV).