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Air pollution: Due to increased vehicular transportation, industrial activities, solid fuel burning [25] and poor urban planning, air pollution, especially when measured by the concentration of PM2.5 particles in the air, is becoming an environmental issue of significance in big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which are now among the ...
In Europe, airlines had successfully negotiated to defer some $1.2 billion in air traffic control charges. [30] Oliver Wyman reported that Asian airlines reduced their available seat miles by 23 percent in March 2020. [31] In Europe, the impact of the outbreak is expected to accelerate corporate consolidation in the airline industry. [32]
The airline industry faces a significant climate challenge due to the scarcity of clean fuel options, exemplified by the recent establishment of LanzaJet Inc.'s $200 million facility in Georgia, the first to convert ethanol into jet engine-compatible fuel, with an annual production target of 9 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The main contributor to the country's emissions is fossil fuel combustion, which accounted for about 60% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2014. [3] As of 2018, the electricity sector accounted for 48% of Vietnam's CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, industry for 28%, transport 16%, the residential sector 4%, the commercial sector 3%, and agriculture 1%. [3]
A Vietnam Airlines Boeing 777-200ER being catered by Vietnam Air Caterers (since renamed Vietnam Airlines Caterers) at Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Vietnam Airlines Group has at least 20 subsidiaries and affiliates. [146] By the end of its restructuring in 2015, the company planned to have offloaded its stakes in more than 10 enterprises ...
The airline and its affiliate, VASCO, makes up 80% of the domestic aviation market. [8] Vietnam Airlines is a member of SkyTeam, an airline alliance, which it joined in June 2010. [9] Vietnam Airlines currently has plans to launch flights to Doha, Mumbai, Brisbane, and most importantly, the United States. [10]
In October 2014, Vingroup bought the supermarket chain OceanMart from Ocean Group and was rebranded as VinMart in a move to gain market share in the retail industry. [8] Vingroup also launched an animal conservation program on Phú Quốc, Vietnam's largest island, in September 2015. It had started with research and conservation of some rare ...
A Vietnam Civil Aviation Ilyushin Il-18 in 1977. The airline sector of Vietnam Civil Aviation was later reorganized to become the nowadays Vietnam Airlines.. The agency was founded as Vietnam Civil Aviation (Cục Hàng không Dân dụng Việt Nam) in January 1956 by the Vietnam People's Air Force (Ministry of Defense), upon the issuance of Decision No.666/TTG of the Vietnamese government.