Between last January and March, the Vietnamese airline carried more than 5.74 million passengers, an annual increase of 12.7 percentage points compared to the same period last year.
Occupancy rates on 28,287 flights operated by Vietnam Airlines reached 86 percent in domestic operations and 80 percent in international operations. The latter achieved revenues of $540.5 million, a figure representing 65 percent of the total recorded in this quarter.
According to the corporation's reports, profits after taxes in the first three months of the year amounted to $173.19 million.
At the beginning of 2024, aviation analysis company Cirium, based in London, UK, ranked Vietnam Airlines ninth among the 10 most punctual airlines in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Vietnamese-flagged airline's punctuality rate reached 77.46 percent on nearly 151,000 flights carried out last year, which is higher than the average in the Asia-Pacific region, which was 73.51 percent.
AirlineRatings.com also highlighted Vietnam Airlines among the world's top 25 airlines for 2023, a list topped by Air New Zealand.
In creating the rankings, the popular portal evaluates the results of government and safety audits along with 12 key criteria, including fleet age, passenger sentiment, profitability, investment evaluations, product offerings and employee relations.
In the case of Vietnam Airlines, it currently has one of the youngest and most modern fleets in Asia, with the average age of its aircraft being seven years, and offers its customers renewed products and services, thanks to the use of digital transformation. to explain.
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