850 extra flights during Tet festival in Vietnam

[regi]

Vietnam Airlines on Monday announced a plan to add another 850 domestic flights next February to meet increased demand during the Tet holiday.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/travel/?ca ... wsid=54232

This article shows that when there is a strong will to solve a problem, the solution comes quickly.
A good example for the South-African soccer games . No more crap about slots, rights, privileges etcetera.
It reminds of the greatest airlift in history: Air India which brought home its Indian workers before the first Iraqi war.
From Wiki : The airline entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest evacuation by a civil airliner. Over 111,000 people were evacuated from Amman to Mumbai – a distance of 4,117 km, by operating 488 flights in association with Indian Airlines, from 13 August to 11 October, 1990 – lasting 59 days. The operation was carried out during Persian Gulf War in 1990 to evacuate Indian expatriates from Kuwait and Iraq.

[Sikiri]

Interesting. How long does the Têt holiday period take? I am guessing around one month. Where will they get that much extra capacity from. Wet leasing? Because I thought that wet leasing was done over a longer period.

Edit: I just found that the dates for the celebrations of Têt are from Mon, Jan 26th 8:00 am to Thu, Jan 29th 6:00 pm. So, why would they need the extra capacity only from February?

[gekko]

Têt is on the 14th of February (2010, year of the Tiger)...