Airlines in Vietnam split on implementing floor price


Travellers at check-in counters at Nội Bài International Airport in Hanoi. — VNA/VNS

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): Airlines continued to debate whether a floor price should be implemented with both supporters and naysayers making arguments for their case.

Chairman of the board of Vietnam Airlines, the country's flag carrier and the largest airline, Đặng Ngọc Hòa said floor prices have been used in many countries and it would produce a positive effect in Vietnam to counter dumping and a price war.

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