Hanoi-HCM City world's fourth busiest domestic air route in 2022
The Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City route has been named among top 4 world's busiest domestic air routes, according to British aviation analysis company OAG.
The flight route connecting Vietnam’s two largest cities, which takes around two hours, carries more than 8.5 million passengers between October 2021 and September 2022.
This demonstrated the strong recovery of the Vietnamese domestic aviation market in the post COVID-19 pandemic period.
In 2019, the Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City route was also listed in the world’s top 6.
The Republic of Korea's Jeju-Seoul route was the busiest domestic air route with over 16 million passengers, followed by Sapporo New Chitose Apt- Tokyo route (Japan) with more than 10 million and Fukuoka – Tokyo (Japan) with 9.8 million.
Rounding off the list of top 10 world's busiest domestic air routes included Jeddahi- Riyadh King Khalid (Saudi Arabia), Melbourne - Sydney (Australia), Mumbai - Delhi (India), Tokyo -Okinawa Naha (Japan), Jakarta Soekamo- Hatta Apt - Denpasar (Indonesia), and Beijing – Shanghai (China).
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), the number of passengers through 22 airports nationwide during the past nine months of this year reached 75 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 162%, including 6.7 million foreigners and 68.3 million domestic passengers, up 1,800% and 141% year-on-year, respectively.
In June, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) highlighted Vietnam as number one in the list of 25 countries with the fastest recovery in the domestic aviation market globally, trailed by Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and Australia.
