The price of domestic airline tickets to some tourist destinations has risen, leading many people to look for cheap flights abroad or nearby locations.
Tourism is entering the summer peak. The increasing demand for travel from the people makes airfare to touristic cities such as Da Nang, Hue, Nha Trang and Phu Quoc constantly high.
Accordingly, the return ticket for the Hanoi – Da Nang route (including taxes) of Vietnam Airlines ranges from VND 3 – 5 million, Bamboo Airways about VND 3 – 4 million and Vietjet Air is slightly lower but still much higher than at the start of the year or at the same time in previous years.
Domestic airfares rose rapidly. Photo: Hoang Ha
On the Hanoi – Phu Quoc route, the ticket price of Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways is between 4 – 10 million VND/pair of return tickets. Meanwhile, Vietjet is slightly lower at 3-7 million dong.
With a flight from Hanoi to Con Dao departing on July 9 with Vietnam Airlines, the price for economy seats is 3,449,000 VND/ticket and from 7,391,000 to 9,443,000 VND/ticket for business seats.
On the Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City route, Vietnam Airlines’ highest fare is 11 million VND/pair return tickets, Bamboo Airways about 10 million VND and Vietjet Air 7 million VND.
The Hanoi – Buon Ma Thuot (Dak Lak) route has the lowest price of VND 3.7 million when flying with Vietjet Air. On the same route, Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways ticket price ranges from VND 4.8-5.5 million.
According to some agents, the price of airline tickets has risen for many reasons, most of which is the increased demand for people’s travel after the COVID-19 epidemic.
Currently, domestic airfare is higher than some routes to Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia… On some flight booking apps, Singapore Airlines return flight in July from Hanoi to Singapore is 4 up to 6 million VND. Or tickets for the route Ho Chi Minh City – Bangkok (Thailand) from 2.5 to 2.8 million VND/return ticket from Vietjet Air, Air Asia.
The cheapest flight Hanoi – Bangkok costs 4.8 million VND from Air Asia.
Faced with this situation, many customers choose to travel to countries near Vietnam.
Toi (District 2, Ho Chi Minh City) said: “My family was planning to go to Phu Quoc, but saw the price of tickets skyrocket. Meanwhile, the flight to Thailand was cheaper. I decided to travel abroad with my family.”
To cut costs, many families cancel their plans to go out and replace them with places nearby, without having to travel by plane.
Ms. Huyen (Ha Dong, Hanoi) said: “Initially my family planned to go to Con Dao for 3 days and 2 nights. However, the plane tickets are quite expensive so I diverted the whole family to go to Ha Long. Next year, when the plane tickets are cheaper and more stable, my family will go later.”
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