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News on air traffic border reopening, cargo transport
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Mongolia resumes international scheduled flights to Russia in December 2021
On 17 November 2021, Mongolian local media reported that the Civil Aviation Administration of Mongolia decided that in December 2021, Mongolia will resume regular international passenger flights with Russia, including Ulaanbaatar to Moscow, Ulan Ude, Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk.
Previously, the Russian Emergency Command had decided that from 1 December 2021, Russia will resume scheduled international passenger flights with Mongolia three times a week.
It is reported that Russia has once closed airports due to the impact of the covid pandemic, and so far, Russia has resumed regular international passenger flights with some countries.
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Cooperating with the opening of the country, Cambodia adjusts immigration measures
In order to cooperate with the opening of the country and the comprehensive restart of the social economy, the Cambodian government has implemented a series of new measures to facilitate the entry of foreigners.
According to a report from the Ministry of Health of Cambodia on 17 November 2021, the country reported 51 new confirmed cases of covid that day, 48 new cases were cured and discharged, and 5 new deaths, 4 of which were not vaccinated. Among the newly confirmed cases, 46 were community-transmitted infections and 5 were imported confirmed cases. Up to now, a total of 119,000 cases have been diagnosed nationwide in Cambodia, a total of 116,000 cases have been cured, and a total of 2,881 cases have died.
The Cambodian Ministry of Tourism spokesman Du Soppa said that the previous "vaccine tourism" requirements for vaccinated and unvaccinated tourists are no longer valid, including the requirement to purchase health insurance and other requirements have been abolished.
Dussopa said that the current requirements for tourists who have been vaccinated with the new crown vaccine are only the results of the nucleic acid test (PCR) 72 hours before boarding, which proves that the passenger's covi test is negative, plus the rapid antigen test at the airport after arrival. There is no need to isolate. When entering and exiting restaurants, shopping malls and other places, tourists do not need to show vaccination cards or identification documents.
Cambodia announced the reopening of the country from 1 November 2021, and various industries have gradually opened up. Dusopa said that the main goal of Cambodia's full-scale opening up is to revitalize the economic field and restore people's lives to normal, so the entry policy needs to be adjusted accordingly.
The Ministry of Health of Cambodia announced on 17 November 2021 that Cambodia will provide free rapid testing services for all entry persons.
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Vietnam domestic flights resume in December, Ho Chi Minh City-San Francisco route launch on 28 November 2021
Hang Khong Vietnam has just submitted a written proposal on the domestic scheduled passenger flight operation plan to the Ministry of Transport. According to the government’s Resolution No. 128 and recent actual operations, it proposes to increase the number of flights and allow airlines to provide more in-flight services from now until the end of November. From December, all airlines are allowed to operate normally.
Specifically, in November, Hang Khong Vietnam proposed to the Ministry of Transport to allow the increase in the number of flights between Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi-Da Nang, Hanoi-Da Nang, and Da Nang-Ho Chi Minh City, with a maximum of 19 round-trip flights per route per day. This is equivalent to 30% of the operating frequency before the epidemic. Among them, Vietnam Airlines and VietJet Air perform 6 round-trip flights per route every day, Bamboo Airways and Pacific Airlines implement 3 round-trip flights per route every day, and VietJet Air implements 1 round-trip flight per route per day.
Hang Khong Vietnam also proposes to increase the frequency of other routes to 9 round-trip flights per route per day. Among them, Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Air, Bamboo Airways and Pacific Airlines implement 2 round-trip flights per route per day. Each route implements 1 round-trip flight.
From December 2021,Hang Khong Vietnam proposes to allow all approved routes of various airlines to operate normally.
It is also reported that the first commercial flight to the United States will take off on 28 November 2021.
According to plan, the first flight will depart from Ho Chi Minh City in the evening of 28 November. The flight will take 13 hours and 50 minutes. The return flight took off from San Francisco in the evening of 30 November, US time, and landed at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City in the morning of 1 December 2021, Vietnam time. The flight takes about 16 hours and 40 minutes.
After the epidemic is basically under control, starting from December 2021, Vietnam Airlines will increase the frequency of flights to 2 flights per week.
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Vietnam Airlines bring tourists direct to Danang, Phu Quoc, Khanh Hoa
On 17 November 2021, Vietnam Airlines piloted its first flight to Incheon to welcome foreign tourists to Danang, Vietnam.
Flight VN417 departing from Incheon Airport carried passengers from South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Australia to Vietnam for travel or family visits.
Passengers taking this flight must meet the conditions of holding a "vaccine passport" (new crown vaccination certification or new crown pneumonia rehabilitation certification), a certificate of negative PCR test results within 72 hours before boarding, and completion of medical declarations.
After the successful implementation of the flight, Vietnam Airlines will continue to implement more flights to five pilot places to welcome international tourists to Phu Quoc, Khanh Hoa, Quang Nam, Danang and Quang Ninh.
The representative of Vietnam Airlines emphasized that the company will do its utmost to accompany various functional departments to achieve the goal of "safe and attractive Vietnam tourism". Currently, Vietnam Airlines is actively working with various travel agencies and tourism management agencies to increase tourism stimulus in important international source markets such as Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Europe, Australia, etc., to attract tourists to Vietnam or visit relatives.
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Zhong Nanshan: Chinese from mainland China can travel leisurely overseas from end of 2022
Recently, when asked when Chinese people can travel abroad more freely, Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told reporters, "The overall estimate should be around the end of next year." Academician Zhong said that this depends on the joint efforts of the world— -Promote vaccination work in the world, especially in developing countries, improve the protection of vaccines against variant viruses such as Delta, and inject a third booster shot.
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Bangkok Airways resumes flight to Phnom Penh on 1 December 2021
Following the reopening of Thailand's borders, Bangkok Airways has announced its second international route that will resume operation: Suvarnabhumi-Phnom Penh from 1 December 2021.
On 1 December 2021, Bangkok Airways flight PG931 departs from Suvarnabhumi for Phnom Penh at 8.50 am, touched down in Phnom Penh at 10.05 am before leaving Phnom Penh for Suvarnabhumi at 10.55 am and arriving in Suvarnabhumi at 12.10 pm under flight PG932.
Bangkok Airways flies to Phnom Penh with its Airbus A320 on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The airline has resumed flights to Singapore from Koh Samui since August 2021.
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Philippines announces complete vaccinated passengers can enter
There is hope for traveling to the Philippines! The Ministry of Tourism of the Philippines announced on 19 November that in the near future it will open the entry of passengers who have been fully vaccinated against covid and come from areas with low epidemic risk. At present, there are about 40 on the "green list" in the Philippines. The Republic of China is also among them.
According to foreign media reports, the Ministry of Tourism of the Philippines pointed out that the relevant working group "in principle has agreed to the entry of passengers from low-risk countries who have been fully vaccinated against the new crown pneumonia", but the relevant details and measures are still being finalized.
Karlo Alexei Nograles, the acting spokesperson of the President of the Philippines, also confirmed the news afterwards and pointed out that the low-risk areas refer to the "green list" countries and regions set by the Philippine government, but the specific opening date has not yet been determined.
In addition, Philippine Tourism Minister Bernadette Romulo-Puyat also issued a statement saying, "Allowing tourists from "green" countries or regions where the majority of the population is vaccinated and the infection rate is low will greatly help our recovery work." .
According to records on the travel website "Wego", the Philippines has more than 40 countries on the "Green List", including Taiwan, the United States, China, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
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Myanmar plans to reopen border crossings and resume commercial flight operations
On 16 November 2021, local time, the Myanmar government announced that it would reopen the four border crossings bordering China and Thailand in December, and plans to resume commercial flight operations in the first quarter of 2022.
The Minister of Propaganda of Myanmar stated that Myanmar's visa policy will also be relaxed, and it is expected that foreigners can apply for business visas in January 2022.
As of 16 November 2021, 14.4 million people in Myanmar had received at least one dose of the covi vaccine, accounting for 42.5% of the total target population. Myanmar plans to increase this proportion to 50% by the end of 2021.
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Turn loss into profit! Thai Airways first three quarters net profit 51 billion baht
Foreign media disclosed at the beginning of the month that Thai Airways International will sell 42 aircraft to reduce operating costs and reduce financial deficits. However, the latest news pointed out that the net profit of this flagship airline from January to September 2021 reached 51.115 billion Baht.
The Bangkok Post reported that a member of the business restructuring plan team responsible for supervising Thai Airways’ execution of the legal decision, Piyasvasti Amranand pointed out on the 15th that Thai Airways’ ability to turn losses into profit is mainly due to the debt restructuring plan, which contains assets. Sales, organization of personnel transformation and other measures, etc.
Phiyawati said that Thai Airways has solid financial security and sufficient cash flow to maintain operations before obtaining new loans. He said this loan is crucial to maintaining the progress of the business restructuring.
It is understood that Thai Airways is still waiting to see whether the Ministry of Finance, one of the company's major shareholders, will provide financial assistance.
But Finance Minister Ahkong said last week that Thai Airways should only need 25 billion baht loans to improve financial liquidity, instead of the 50 billion baht previously estimated; and Thai Airways must make a decision on the method of borrowing, and the ministry does not need to provide loans. guarantee.
Phiyawati said that if there is no guarantee loan from the Ministry of Finance, one of the solutions to the company’s funding gap is to convert debt into equity worth 13 billion. Without the above-mentioned debt-to-capitalization process and no secured loans, the Ministry of Finance’s shareholding in Thai Airways would be significantly reduced from the current 48% to 8%.
Phiyawati said that so far this year, Thai Airways has performed fairly well. Its passenger and cargo revenues totaled 1.2 billion Baht last month, of which up to 90% came from the cargo business. This is the highest monthly income of Thai Airways since the outbreak of the new crown disease in Thailand early last year.
In addition, Thailand has loosened entry and anti-epidemic controls from the 1st of this month, which is expected to boost air traffic demand. In the first 10 days of the reopening, the number of international arrivals increased from about 300 per day before November 1 to 750.
Piyawati believes that if there is no more serious epidemic in the future, he predicts that Thai Airways will have at least 50 billion baht in revenue next year.
Matichon News.com reported that according to Thai Stock Exchange information provided by Thai Airways on the same day, the net profit of Thai Airways and its subsidiaries in the first nine months of 2021 totaled 51.115 billion Baht, compared with a loss of 49.561 billion Baht year-on-year.
At the same time, the International Air Transport Association conducted a survey on the chief financial officers and cargo managers of airlines in early October, and the results showed that airline profitability continued to improve in the third quarter.
The vast majority of interviewees said that compared with the same period in 2020, passenger and freight volumes in the third quarter of 2021 have improved. They are optimistic about the profitability in the next 12 months, and expect that the business volume of passenger and cargo transportation will increase in the future.
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My Indo Airlines delivers BioKangtai vaccine to Jakarta
At 7 am on 19 November 2021, an all-cargo plane carrying Shenzhen Kangtai's BioKangtai covi vaccine departed from Shenzhen for Indonesia. This was the first COVID-19 outbound charter flight guaranteed by Shenzhen Airport, and it was also the first time Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., Ltd. produced and exported the vaccine directly from Shenzhen Airport to overseas for the first time, helping the world fight the epidemic.
The adenovirus vector recombinant covi vaccine is in more than 4 million doses and weighs 15 tons, which was carried by My Indo Airlines.
Vaccines have stringent requirements for transportation timeliness and storage safety, and they are aviation-preferred transportation goods. In order to ensure the safety of air transportation of this type of cargo, the International Civil Aviation Organization (IATA) has formulated industry standards that comply with the air transportation supply chain of pharmaceuticals, and regulates the handling standards of pharmaceutical transportation and storage.
In 2020, Shenzhen Airport formally obtained the CEIV Pharma certification issued by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), becoming the third mainland airport to pass the certification after Beijing and Shanghai. It is capable of transporting biotechnology products. The protection capability. This transportation guarantee is also the first time that Shenzhen Airport has obtained the qualification to carry the covi vaccine transportation guarantee task.
According to the airport, BioKangtai vaccine uses passive temperature-controlled packaging, which requires high protection for the entire process, and the entire transportation process must be strictly maintained in the temperature control range of 2-8 degrees Celsius. In order to ensure the safe and efficient transportation of vaccines, Shenzhen Airport has formulated the covi vaccine transportation guarantee plan, and upgraded the cold chain transportation and storage facilities, and used visual temperature monitors to monitor the temperature of the vaccine throughout the process to ensure the transportation quality of the covi vaccine.
Earlier this month, Indonesia formally granted emergency use authorization for the recombinant adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccine produced by Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., Ltd. This is China’s second and Guangdong Province’s first adenovirus vector covi vaccine approved for emergency use overseas. This is why Kangtai is currently the only vaccine company in the world that has two different technical routes approved for emergency use of the covi vaccine.
"Shenzhen Airport's comprehensive route network and professional capabilities in vaccine transportation guarantee will help us to better contribute to the global fight against the epidemic in Shenzhen in the future. I believe that more Shenzhen Kangtai vaccines will be exported from Shenzhen Airport in the future." Zhang Qian, general manager of Shenzhen Kangtai International Business Department, said.
In recent years, Shenzhen Airport has continued to improve its air cargo supply capacity and service level, continuously optimize port functions, enrich port business formats, and achieve two "full coverage" of special cargo guarantee certification qualifications and cross-border e-commerce business models.
Good logistics ecology and support capabilities have made Shenzhen Airport an important freight hub in the Greater Bay Area, contributing to the stability of the global supply chain under the epidemic, and strongly supporting various enterprises in Shenzhen and surrounding areas to go global and sell globally. "Shenzhen has a large number of biopharmaceutical industries.
"The Chinese vaccines produced by these biopharmaceuticals have played an important role in the global fight against the epidemic. Shenzhen Airport also has an excellent level of air cargo protection. We believe that the air cargo service of Shenzhen Airport can provide vaccine transportation quality providing a reliable guarantee." said Mohamed Ishak, CEO of My Indo Airlines.
It is reported that in the early stage, My Indo Airlines opened the "Shenzhen-Singapore-Jakarta" all-cargo route at Shenzhen Airport. This flight is the first vaccine flight after the opening of the route, which will help to further promote the transportation and cooperation of medical supplies worldwide, especially in the ASEAN region, and accelerate the exchange and development of cross-border logistics between China and Southeast Asia.
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