Good signal to maintain flight route to Ho Chi Minh City

On August 23, Mr. Pham Thanh Lam, Director of Ca Mau Airport, said that from August 1 to 22, 2024, operating flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Ca Mau and vice versa, the average seat coefficient will reach about 80% every day.

The Ho Chi Minh City - Ca Mau route and vice versa will maintain one flight/day from August 1, 2024, bringing positive signals.

The two flights on Friday and Sunday have seat factors of about 65%, meeting the requirements to maintain the flight route.

Thus, the daily, Friday and Sunday seat coefficient increased by 114% compared to the period from May 24 to June 14, 2024.

According to Mr. Lam, the Ho Chi Minh City - Ca Mau route and vice versa will maintain one flight/day starting from August 1, 2024. To maintain the effective exploitation of this flight frequency, Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) Ca Mau Branch has a policy of reducing ticket prices for people traveling and applied according to each specific case (people with Ca Mau household registration, people with disabilities, people over 60 years old).

"Along with that, we also hope that Ca Mau province will propagate and orient people, officials and businesses to prioritize exploiting air routes.

Especially on Fridays and Sundays to increase the seat coefficient (reaching about 80%, about 60/72 seats compared to the remaining days)", Mr. Lam shared more.

According to Mr. Lam, VASCO has also adjusted flight times to suit the travel needs of people, officials and businesses in Ca Mau province.

According to the People's Committee of Ca Mau province, flights to/from Ca Mau from Ho Chi Minh City are operated by VASCO with regular daily flight schedules, frequency of 7 flights/week, basically meeting the travel needs of people.

Ca Mau Provincial People's Committee believes that through actual exploitation, the current flight frequency and time are quite suitable, convenient for people, businesses and tourists, as well as the travel of officials and civil servants during work.

Master plan of Ca Mau Airport with vision to 2050.

Ca Mau Provincial People's Committee commits to accompany Vietnam Airlines and VASCO in promoting and widely informing civil servants, public employees, workers and people about VASCO's flight frequency, schedule and preferential policies.

From there, proactively arrange work and other necessary activities, as well as create conditions to increase the seat coefficient for flights.

VASCO Ca Mau Branch said the flight schedule is divided into two phases.

Specifically, from August 1, 2024 to October 26, 2024, Ho Chi Minh City - Ca Mau and vice versa from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday: Ho Chi Minh City - Ca Mau flight takes off at 1:35 p.m., lands at 2:40 p.m.; Ca Mau - Ho Chi Minh City flight takes off at 3:00 p.m., lands at 4:15 p.m.

Friday and Sunday: Ho Chi Minh City - Ca Mau takes off at 5:45, lands at 6:50; Ca Mau - Ho Chi Minh City takes off at 7:10, lands at 8:25.

From October 27, 2024 to March 28, 2025, Ho Chi Minh City - Ca Mau on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday takes off at 11:20, lands at 12:20; Ca Mau - Ho Chi Minh City takes off at 12:40, lands at 13:50.

During this period, the price is fluctuating flexibly from 1.3 - 1.8 million VND (depending on the time of purchase and the opening booking class).

In addition, the airline continues to maintain discounted products with a 15% discount on the published price. Applicable to all booking classes open for sale with applicable channels: Buy directly at VASCO ticket office (No. 191, Tran Hung Dao Street, Ward 5, Ca Mau City).

Applicable subjects: people with Ca Mau household registration, disabled people, elderly people (over 60 years old).

Planning target of Ca Mau Airport, period 2021 - 2030, airport level 4C and military airport level II; capacity of about 1 million passengers/year and 1,000 tons of cargo/year; type of aircraft operated is code C such as A320/A321 and equivalent; landing approach method: CAT I head 27 and simple head 09.

Vision to 2050, airport level 4C and military airport level II; capacity of about three million passengers/year and 3,000 tons of cargo/year; type of aircraft operated is code C such as A320/A321 and equivalent; landing approach: CAT I with head 27 and simple head 09.

According to the 2021 - 2030 planning period, the aircraft parking lot south of the runway will accommodate about four parking positions.

Vision to 2050, the planning of the northern aircraft parking lot is synchronized with the new civil aviation area, meeting about 10 parking positions and having reserves for expansion when needed.

Passenger terminal, period 2021 - 2030, expanding the existing passenger terminal to meet the capacity of about one million passengers/year.

Vision to 2050, planning a new passenger terminal in the area north of the runway, with a capacity of about three million passengers/year; reserve land for development when needed.

In the period 2021 - 2030, the cargo warehouse is planned to be located west of the passenger terminal, near the existing aircraft parking lot, with a capacity of about 1,000 tons of cargo/year.

Vision to 2050, planning cargo warehouse east of new passenger terminal, meeting capacity of about 3,000 tons of cargo/year.

Land use planning for the period 2021 - 2030, total land use demand is about 184.22ha. Vision to 2050, total land use demand is about 244.43ha.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/tin-hieu-tot-duy-tri-duong-bay-tphcm-ca-mau-va-nguoc-lai-mot-chuyen-ngay-192240809084611257.htm