Vietnamese people in US applauds resumption of int’l commercial flights
Many Vietnamese people and businesses in the US have shown their support for the homeland’s restoration of international commercial flights, describing the move as a good start for the New Year.
Passengers get off a plane of Vietnam Airlines (Photo: VNA)
Washington DC (VNA)– Many Vietnamese people and businesses in the US have shown their support for thehomeland’s restoration of international commercial flights, describing the moveas a good start for the New Year.
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./.
The best possible conditions will be created for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) to return to the homeland with safety from the pandemic ensured, especially now that the Lunar New Year festival is just around the corner, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Hieu has said.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue its coordination with other ministries, agencies, localities and airlines to arrange flights to bring overseas Vietnamese back to Vietnam as per their wish, spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said at a regular press conference held by the ministry on January 20.
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Passengers get off a plane of Vietnam Airlines (Photo: VNA) 
