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Low-cost airline Vietjet had the highest number of delayed flights in 2018 with 18,746 out of 118,923 flights missing their schedule departure times, equivalent to 15.8 percent. This was an increase of 1.3 percent against the previous year. The rate for national carrier Vietnam Airlines was 10.8 percent with 13,790 delayed flights out of the total 128,236 flights it operated. Jetstar Pacfic reported 6,636 delayed flights, accounting for 18.5 percent. Meanwhile, VASCO’s delay rate was only 3.4 percent, or 460 out of its 13,524 flights in the period. In 2018, there were 790 cancelled flights, accounting for 0.3 percent of all flights. According to CAAV, the late return of planes was the main cause of delays and cancellations. Other reasons included airports’ limited infrastructure and services, flight management and operation and weather and technical issues, the agency said. … [Read more...] about Nearly 40,000 flights delayed in 2018

Passengers of Vietnam Airlines can visit www.vietnamairlines.com or www.facebook.com/VietnamAirlines and call ticket offices nationwide or customer service 1900 1100 (within the country) or 84 24 38320 320 (in foreign countries) for further information. … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines resumes normal flights to Japan after storm Hagibis

At least 14 people were killed and nine others missing after Typhoon Hagibis slammed into Japan, officials said Sunday, as rescuers scrambled to reach people trapped by catastrophic flooding. The storm's "unprecedented" heavy rain triggered deadly landslides and caused rivers to burst their banks. The destruction forced Rugby World Cup organisers to cancel a third match though the key Japan-Scotland clash will go ahead. By Sunday morning, the significantly weakened storm had moved back off land, but serious flooding was reported in several areas, including central Japan's Nagano, where a burst levee sent water from the Chikuma river gushing into residential neighbourhoods, flooding homes up to the second floor. Japan's military deployed 27,000 troops to aid rescue operations, including some in helicopters who winched people from the roofs and balconies of flooded homes in Nagano. In Kawagoe, northwest of Tokyo, rescue workers in boats were evacuating elderly people from a … [Read more...] about 14 dead, rescues underway after Typhoon Hagibis slams Japan

The claims, each representing one victim, are the first to be settled out of some 55 lawsuits against Boeing in U.S. federal court in Chicago and could set the bar for mediation talks by other Lion Air plaintiffs’ lawyers that are scheduled through next month, three people familiar with the matter said. … [Read more...] about Boeing settles first Lion Air lawsuits for at least $1.2 million apiece: sources

Attending the event were Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos Nguyen Ba Hung; Lao Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment and Vice Chairman of the Laos – Vietnam Cooperation Committee Khamphoi Keokinnaly; Chairman of the Lao National Assembly’s Committee on Planning, Finance and Auditing and Chairman of the Laos – Vietnam Friendship Association Central Committee Vilayvong Bouddakham; and former Director of the Lao National Economic Research Institute Bouasone Bouphavanh, among others. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES OCTOBER 13

"I evacuated because my roof was ripped off by the other typhoon and rain came in. I'm so worried about my house," a 93-year-old man told national broadcaster NHK as he sheltered at a centre in Tateyama in Chiba east of Tokyo. … [Read more...] about One dead as ‘unprecedented’ Typhoon Hagibis slams into Japan