Turkish Airlines has increased the number of its services to HCMC to seven a week just a half year after the launch of its flights from the Thai capital of Bangkok to the southern economic hub of Vietnam. The carrier in HCMC told the Daily on the phone on Monday that it had added three more weekly flights to make its service daily from July. The airline still operates the Airbus A340 airplane configured... 

Air France will continue to offer passengers six non-stop, code-share flights a week from Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris as part of its agreement with Vietnam Airlines. Air France confirmed the number of direct code-share flights operated by Vietnam Airlines aircraft from Hanoi to Paris in a statement in which it also revealed a plan to raise... 

Vietnam Airlines’ long-awaited direct air service to the United Kingdom will hopefully commence this fall as a result of recent successful discussions among officials from the UK Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Department of Vietnam. The British embassy in Hanoi has high expectations about non-stop flights between Vietnam’s two largest cities, HCMC and Hanoi, and London,... 

HCMC – Air France has put to service a new-version Boeing 777-300ER equipped with one more business-class cabin and new in-flight products, including an entertainment system for its non-stop flights between Paris and HCMC. The latest version of the Boeing 777-300ER was configured with 42 Business seats, 24 Premium Voyageur seats and 317 Voyageur seats. The new Premium Voyageur is positioned... 

HCMC – Turkish Airlines yesterday started air service to HCMC by extending the Istanbul-Bangkok route to Vietnam’s largest economic center. The airline will have four weekly flights, with departures from Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. A promotional roundtrip airfare begins at VND18.83 million for departures between now and March 31 next year. “We... 

HCMC – Vietnam Airlines will welcome the 12 millionth passenger at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi next week, thus fulfilling its annual target for this year days earlier, said the southern regional office of the national flag carrier. The target for around 12 million passengers this year was announced by Duong Tri Thanh, deputy general director of Vietnam Airlines, at a function organized in HCMC in July... 

HCM CITY – Vietnam Airlines will launch a direct air route linking HCM City to Beijing on December 16. The new route will have three flights per week on Monday, Thursday and Sunday. Flights from HCM City will depart from Tan Son Nhat International Airport late in the evening and return early the next day. “Vietnam Airlines is the first carrier to open a direct route between HCM City and Beijing,”... 

HCMC – Vietnam’s Air Mekong looks set to launch its maiden domestic flights before October 10 this year, which is the date earlier scheduled for the private carrier’s maiden flight. Truong Thanh Vu, director of commercial service, said the airline’s crew staff of over 40 foreign pilots had arrived in Vietnam and that the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) had granted the carrier... 

HCMC – Air Mekong, a local 100% Vietnamese owned airline, on Sunday received four Bombardier CRJ-900s, chartered from the US-based Sky West Leasing Inc., to provide its first domestic flights. The four three-year-old Bombardiers came to HCMC-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Sunday noon. The jets, which are 90-seaters, are expected to provide domestic flights from October 10. Tickets...