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forced to cut 230,000 seats from their previously planned Tet services. With some airlines allegedly selling tickets for the extra flights before having obtained approval from the CAAV, passengers with booked tickets are sitting on hot bricks, fearing they will not be able to return home for Tet celebrations. Ho Quoc Cuong, head of aviation transportation under the CAAV, said the air carriers may not sell tickets for all of the planned extra services, so there is little chance passengers with purchased tickets will miss flights.
Vietnam Breaking News reported that HCM City has announced measures to ease traffic congestion, which has
worsened recently, during the upcoming festival season. But it wasn’ t all good news,“ congestion would remain bad from now until the Lunar New Year.”
Apparently, 40 key infrastructure works related to public transport, reduction of private vehicles and increase in the use of IT in transport management would be finished soon according to Bùi Xuân Cường, director of the Department of Transport. This action is expected to make traffic flows more efficient and smoother however“ Encroachment of pavements and roads by small businesses is one of the most important causes of gridlock,” Nguyễn Ngọc Tường, deputy head of the city’ s Traffic Safety Committee, said. 24 districts signed a commitment to clear businesses on 159 streets,“ but it has not been done so far.” WHY? This commitment was given in 2012.
Meanwhile, VietUnion announced recently it would sell train and bus ticket online through an application called Paytouch. To use Paytouch, computers will first be installed in 20 Circle K and B’ Smart convenience stores around the city before Lunar
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