It has been three weeks since Vietnam lifted all restrictions on international air transport on February 15, but its aviation industry after some two years of closure due to COVID-19 has yet to fully revive, with more goods than people carried on recent flights. Among the 89 international flights to and from Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on March 4, only 37 transported passengers while the rest served cargo transportation, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV). Recently, the frequency of international flights to and from Vietnam was 370 flights per week per direction, equivalent to 53 flights per direction per day, while the corresponding figures in the winter flight schedule of 2019 were 4,185 and 598. From January 11 to February 23, about 200,000 international visitors entered Vietnam, much lower than the four million visitors per month during the peak season in 2019, the CAAV said. Currently, most of the inbound passengers are overseas Vietnamese, while foreign visitors made up a fractional ratio, Nguyen Quang Trung, head of the Development and Planning Department of Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carrier, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. Many airlines hope that the situation will improve from March 15, when Vietnam fully…