After my visa run to KL last week I returned to Vietnam via Danang. I wasn't sure if my flight was going to be cancelled as there was a storm brewing when the flight arrived. I landed in Danang to find the beach strewn with rubbish from the floods from the week before. It turns out that October is not the best month to travel to Danang.

[Cleaning up the beach after the flood (it was worse before I arrived).]

The same day I arrived was the same day of new flights from Danang to India. I hope the newly arrived tourists realised they were flying in at the start of the Central Coast rainy season.

There have been some interesting new routes that have started in Vietnam this year. I was going to do a full annual aviation report for Vietnam, but it will be better to wait for a normal year of travel. The same goes for an annual Southeast Asia report - I will wait until next year because not every country was open at the start of the year.

Being in Danang with these new flights has got me thinking about the aviation recovery in Vietnam, so that is the main topic of this week’s dispatch for subscribers.