On September 28, 2020, the Ministry of Transport issues the Circular No. 21/2020/TT-BGTVT amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Circular No. 81/2014/TT-BGTVT dated December 30, 2014 of the Minister of Transport on airway transportation and general aviation operation, and the Circular No.14/2015/TT-BGTVT dated April 27, 2015 of the Minister of Transport on compensation for non-refundable advance of passenger transport by air and the Circular No.33/2016/TT-BGTVT dated November 25, 2016 of the Minister of Transport on operational and statistical report in Vietnam Civil Aviation.
Specifically, the Ministry of Transport decides to cancel the procedures for grant of the certificates of Vietnamese legal entity representative for foreign airlines.
Besides, instead of submitting interim reports within 24 hours, the Ministry stipulates that within 72 hours from the time of expected take-off (in case of cancelled flights) or the time of actual take-off (in case of flights in which there are customers refused to transport or delayed flights) or irregularly at request of the Airport authority, airlines must be responsible for reporting to the Airport authority about compensating for non-refundable advance of flights.
In addition, regional flight management companies shall not have to report the actual time of departure and landing off of each flight of Vietnamese and foreign airlines in the airports (daily) according to the Form QLB-7 to the Airports Authority or representative of the Airports Authority at the corresponding airport: data from 00:00 to 23:59 (UTC hour) and report before 15:00 of the next day as in the previous regulations.
This Circular takes effect on November 15, 2020.