Vietnam Airlines Corporation (Vietnam Airlines, stock code: HVN) has officially released its first quarter consolidated financial statements, reporting sales of VND 23,640 billion, doubling the same time in 2022. Notably, the figure has approximated the revenue level prior to the Covid-19 crisis.

The national airline’s gross profit climbed to 1,959 billion dongs, while the gross loss was 1,595 billion dongs at the same time.

Revenue from the financial activities of the firm climbed 3.5 times to 366 billion dongs in the first three months of the year. Financial expenditures, on the other hand, went up by 46% to 773 billion dong; selling expenses increased by 187% to 1,048 billion dong; and administrative expenses increased by 23% to 482 billion dong.

As a consequence, after 12 straight quarters of losses, Vietnam Airlines earned VND 19.3 billion in pre-tax profit in the first quarter. However, after-tax profit is still negative 37.3 billion dongs.

The above result, according to the company’s explanation, is mostly attributable to the efficient exploitation of the Lunar New Year, the recovery of the worldwide market, particularly China gradually easing the disease control policy. Seat usage is high in areas such as the United States, Europe, and Australia. Vietnam Airlines had to increase the load at peak periods to serve passengers.

Since April 25, HVN stock has been under warning. The reason is that Vietnam Airlines is more than 15 days late in submitting the audited financial statements for 2022, in the case of securities that have been warned in accordance with requirements.

In this regard, the company stated that it has come to the completion of the reconciliation and debt confirmation procedures with the supplier.

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Source: Vietnam Insider

Flight attendants of Vietnam Airlines have used the #WeApologize hashtag on social media to express their regret after a colleague sparked Vietnam’s recent string of Covid-19 transmissions.

Since December 2, a host of Vietnam Airlines flight attendants have posted the #WeApologize hashtag, saying sorry on behalf of their colleague, “patient 1342,” who violated quarantine rules and spread the novel coronavirus to the community.

“What happened was unexpected, our colleague was wrong, and we apologize on his behalf,” a female flight attendant said on her Facebook page.

Promising to strictly follow the rules and not cause any similar incidents in future, many also expressed the hope people will stop criticizing and even abusing them on social networks and in real life.

“We have been worried at work as some of our colleagues have been discriminated against and abused. I want to repeat we are sorry for what happened,” another flight attendant wrote on Facebook.

Previously, local news said verbal abuse and ostracism were reported by Vietnam Airlines staff. On December 3, a stranger attacked an attendant with a burning cigarette while the uniformed victim was waiting at a red light.

These posts from Vietnam Airlines flight attendants have attracted attention from netizens, who have shown encouragement and support, hoping the staff would overcome the upheaval soon.

Under Covid-19 prevention protocols, flight crews must isolate themselves on returning to Vietnam. But the flight attendant, “patient 1342,” who returned to Vietnam from Japan on November 14 and entered quarantined for four days at a facility managed by Vietnam Airlines in HCMC’s Tan Binh District, went to another quarantine area and contracted the virus from a crew member who had returned from Romania.

After two tests showed he was negative for the coronavirus, he was let go but told to isolate himself at home.

But he came into contact with his mother and two friends, including an English language teacher who stayed with him for a few days.

On November 29, 15 days after he returned from Japan, he tested positive for the virus, and the next day the teacher did too. The latter had meanwhile spread the virus to a nephew and a student of his.

On December 3, local police said the flight attendant could be charged with “spreading dangerous infectious diseases to humans.”

Vietnam has recorded 1,358 Covid-19 cases so far, 119 still active. Thirty-five have succumbed to the disease, many of them elderly with underlying conditions like diabetes or kidney failure.

@ VNExpress

Vietnam Airlines will operate one-way flights from Vietnam to Japan starting from September 18.

The national carrier says the flights are intended to “serve the increasing needs of passengers wishing to work, study and stay in Japan”.

The airline is operating four flights to Tokyo’s Narita Airport, but the carrier will not be flying any return flights.

Flights from Hanoi to Tokyo’s Narita Airport will depart at 11.45 pm on September 18, 25, and 30, and flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Narita will depart at 12 am on September 30. A B787 aircraft will be flown on all flights.

The airline says the its crew will undergo health checks and a quarantine period after the flight.

The airline adds that it is planning to resume return flights from Japan to Vietnam pending “approval from the relevant authorities”, and that it is also hoping to resume flights to South Korea, China, Taiwan, Laos, and Cambodia.