At Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA)

The figure represented an annual decrease of 3.3 percent, however goods throughput hit 15,900 tonnes, up 7.5 percent on year.

Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh city, Noi Bai in Ha Noi, and Da Nang in the central city of the same name received 375,000, 240,000 and 94,800 passengers, as well as 4,900, 9,600 and 316 tonnes of goods, respectively.

Vietnamese airlines operated 3,600 flights, down 13.5 percent over the same period last year. Of the flights, 3,300 took off on time, and 25 were cancelled.

This year, the National Reunification Day and May Day fell on Saturday and Sunday, so people had two more days off, on May 2 and May 3.