The ministry of transport shall regulate the air carriage service prices

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The ministry of transport shall regulate the air carriage service prices

According to the Law No. 61/2014/QH13 Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Vietnam Civil Aviation Law passed by the National Assembly on November 21, 2014, beside the administration service for departure and arrival flights; air navigation assurance assistance service, the State shall regulates the specific prices for passenger services; aviation security assurance service and administration service for flights through flight information regions managed by Vietnam.

The National Assembly emphasizes to fix the price for non aviation service prices and price for ground lease and prices of essential services at airports and airfields; the Ministry of Transport shall prescribe service prices according to the pricing method prescribed by the Ministry of Finance. Therefore, fromJuly 01, 2015, the Airlines may decide on domestic air carriage service prices within the service price frame prescribed by the Ministry of Transport and declare such prices to the Ministry of Transport.

Other important contents are regulations on aviation security assurance. Accordingly, beside the security such as checking, screening and supervising aviation security of aircraft, vehicles, people, baggage, cargoes leaving, entering and operating in restricted areas under regulations; searching aircraft, vehicles, people, baggage and cargoes when they show signs of endangering aviation security..the aviation security assurance also ensured in other ways such as controlling internal security among aviation employees; applying special preventive measures when permitting the carriage of dangerous persons; preventing and combating terrorism onboard aircraft and supervising aviation security, maintaining order and discipline at airports, airfields and places where exist air navigation aids, facilities and equipment and onboard aircraft…especially shall impose permanent or temporary ban on carriage of troublemaking passengers and people who commit acts of illegally interference in civil aviation activities or at the request of competent state agencies.

This Law takes effect on July 01, 2015.