VietNamNet Bridge – At the request of Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang, Director of Cam Ranh Airport had to retire early due to making multiple violations.

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) has announced to appoint Mr. Phan Le Hoan, a member of the ACV Council, as director of the Cam Ranh Airport, in Khanh Hoa Province, to replace Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh from September 3.

Earlier, in implementing the guidelines of the Ministry of Transport and Transport Minister Dinh La Thang, the Vietnam Civil Aviation Administration asked ACV to reshuffle Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh for his recent violations made at the Cam Ranh International Airport.

However, based on Thanh’s aspirations, ACV permitted Thanh to retire early.

Some mistakes of Thanh include: suspending flights out of his competence, making luggage disorder, affecting the involved passengers and the airline. There were two cases related to the low-cost airline of VietJet Air in June 2013.

On June 15 at Cam Ranh Airport, a passenger of Vietnam Airlines left two iPhones at the security screening gate. The next passenger going through the security screening gate "mistakenly took" the two cell phones to a flight of VietJet Air.

After receiving information of the phone lost and finding the one who "mistakenly held" the phone on VietJet Air flight, which was about to take off, Thanh asked the air traffic controller to force the aircraft to come back to the platform to search for the two phones.

The two iPhones were returned to the passenger but the flight was delayed for one hour, affecting the operation plan of the airline and hundreds of passengers. Notably, to handle this situation, Thanh was beyond the competence because only the Director of the airport authorities can suspend a flight.

In the second case, the VJ8854 flight from Nha Trang to Hanoi of VietJet Air which took off from Cam Ranh Airport at 6pm on June 30 missed 81 pieces of baggage. This was blamed for the luggage service division of the Cam Ranh Airport.

When landing at Noi Bai Airport, both passengers and the carrier fell into a loud argument because they could not find the luggage. The majority of the lost luggage belonged to the employees of a Hanoi-based company.

At 8.40pm the same day, the 81 pieces of luggage were transported to Hanoi on a flight of Vietnam Airlines.

Le Ha