Passengers get off a plane of Vietnam Airlines (Photo: VNA)Talking to the Vietnam NewsAgency, Sean Lam, Vice President of IMSG - a partner of the Vietnam Air TrafficManagement Corporation, said after almost two years of international flightsuspension, Vietnamese guest workers with expired labour contracts, students,or people on business trips but stranded abroad now has huge demand forreuniting with their families. To overseas Vietnamese (OVs) who haven’t come back to thehomeland for a long time or those seeking investment opportunities, the flightresumption will make it easier for them to make travel plans.
He said he has always longedfor a return to the homeland to visit his relatives and friends and meetpartners to promote investment and business projects.
Vietnamese ministries andsectors’ consensus to reopen regular international air routes while theCOVID-19 pandemic remains tense with the appearance of new variantsdemonstrates the strong resolve to bring the country back to normal. It alsoillustrates the great attention to the travel, studying, and working demand ofVietnamese people both at home and abroad, Lam went on.
He noted with appropriateanti-pandemic measures, the country is able to safely welcome OVs back whileensuring good control of the pandemic, thus raising people’s hope and trust togradually recover and develop the economy.
The reopening of someinternational air routes, especially the direct one between Vietnam and the US,since January 1 is highly useful for strengthening Vietnamese enterprises’ cooperationwith foreign partners, according to the IMSG executive.
Echoing the view, Nguyen HuuQuoc, owner of a travel company in the state of Maryland, said though Vietnam’srestoration of regular international flights is slower than other regional countries,it will be an encouraging start and a condition for businesses to resumeoperations and reactivate services for international tourists, helping restartthe tourism sector.
Tran Kim Ngoc, an accountantat the US-based CPA company, said the resumption not only create conditions formany OVs to reunite with their families during the Lunar New Year festival butalso meet people’s travel and studying demand.
The move is greatly expectedby not only businesses but also the entire Vietnamese community in the US. It showsthe Government’s attention to people’s demand and investment cooperationso as to shore up the economy in the time ahead, she added./.
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