The flight, which will be run by national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, is slated to leave Hanoi on Saturday morning for Warsaw. The return flight from Poland is scheduled to arrive in Hanoi on Sunday.
A flight of Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines has asked the ministries of foreign affairs and transport to quicken the procedures for the flight.
Vietnam Airlines has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to instruct the Vietnamese embassies in Ukraine and Poland to help with preparatiosn for the flight.
Meanwhile, the carrier has proposed the Ministry of Health removing regulations on Covid-19 testing, Covid-19 vaccination as well as quarantine regulations for Vietnamese citizens in Ukraine when they are brought home. Vietnam Airlines has also recommended arranging a doctor to support the flight.
As of midday of March 3, most of the Vietnamese people in Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv had been evacuated to neighbouring countries, including Moldova, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
Data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs show that there are about 7,000 Vietnamese people in Ukraine, mostly in the three major cities of Kyiv (800), Kharkiv (3,000), and Odessa (3,000).
The CAAV said the repatriation plan now is that the citizens in Ukraine will go by road to neighbouring countries, with those in Kyiv moving to Poland, in Kharkiv to Russia, and in Odessa to Moldova or Romania, and then flights will be arranged to bring them from these countries back home.
As it is unable to operate flights to Ukraine, which is currently a war zone, airlines have planned flights to destinations in nearby countries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, and Belarus.
Apart from these destinations, Vietnamese carriers are also ready to fly to any other places under the Government’s plan in the principle of ensuring safety and the best possible conditions for Vietnamese people and their families in Ukraine to return to the homeland, according to the CAAV.
