The Ha Noi-Ho Chi Minh City flight path is among the most crowded in the world, new data from British aviation analysis company OAG shows.
Air passengers wait in check-in lines at Noi Bai Airport in Ha Noi.
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Some 6.7 million passengers flew between the two cities last year, making the route the seventh busiest, UK newspaper The Telegraph quoted OAG as saying.
Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air and Jetstar Pacific have been launching an increasing number of flights on the sector, and there are 45 daily flights now. The travel time is two hours and ten minutes.
The Jeju-Seoul Gimpo route topped the list with more than 13 million passengers, followed by Melbourne - Sydney, Sapporo - Tokyo Haneda, and Fukuoka - Tokyo Haneda.
In 2016, the OAG data had showed the Sai Gon-Ha Noi route to be the seventh most crowded.
Viet Nam’s aviation market is growing at the third fastest pace in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the aviation aministration.
Viet Nam had more than 94 million air passengers last year, a 16% increase from 2016.
The country’s biggest airports are Tan Son Nhat in Sai Gon and Noi Bai in Ha Noi.