VietNamNet Bridge – The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has cancelled the sleep-box service at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi.

Noi Bai Airport offers sleepbox services

CAAV’s Deputy Director Vo Huy Cuong said on Friday the agency checked the sleep-boxes on the third floor of terminal T1 at Noi Bai Airport. They are located in the area dedicated to offices and airlines, which are isolated from the zone for aviation procedures on the 1st and 2nd floors. They do not occupy space for passengers.

However, Cuong said that the public assumed that the service was launched to take advantage of cancelled and delayed flights. Thus, the CAAV decided to temporarily cancel the service.

He said the CAAV wants society’s support for this project.

He added that there was no hotel in the Noi Bai airport to serve transit passengers so the sleep-box service was needed.

A representative of the Vietnam Aviation Tourism Corporation said that after a few days of operation, a number of devices and appliances in several sleep-tubes were damaged by clients so they had to stop the service for repairs as well.

The service was launched on July 22 on the 3rd floor at the Noi Bai airport. The service provider offered 14 sleeping tubes with three single and 11 double boxes. Each tube is 4m2 and 3m high, equipped with a bed, wardrobe, blanket, pillow, clothes hangers and alarm clock. Passengers are also served free drinks, snacks, and wifi service.

There are 14 sleep-boxes, including three single boxes and 11 double boxes. The service provider has listed the prices as VND210,000 ($10) for the first three hours for a single room and VND252,000 ($13) for a double room. The prices for the next three hours range from VND180,000 to VND215,000.

Pha Le