Vietnam Airlines Opens Direct Flight to Bussan
State-owned Vietnam Airlines today launched direct flights between Hanoi and Busan, South Korea, as part of business expansion strategy.
The airline will perform three flights a week on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays with its Airbus A321 planes.
Vietnam Airlines has so far run three Korean destinations into its flights schedule, including Hanoi-Seoul, HCM City-Seoul and HCM City-Bussan, flying to each city once a day, said Pham Ngoc Minh, the airline’s Deputy General Director.
This 4th flight from Hanoi to Bussan is expected to meet the growing travel demand of tourists and also to create chances for economic and cultural exchanges contributing to cooperation between the two countries.
This new direct flight is part of the airline’s plan to develop Vietnam as a transport depot in the region, Minh said, adding that the expansion will be supplemented by better customer service to clients and diversification of available direct travel destinations.
Minh believed the expansion will increase Vietnam Airlines’ competitiveness in regional aviation market by offering greater investment and tourism activities between South Korea and Vietnam.
Vietnam Airlines has recorded an average annual growth rate of 40 per cent in air transport between Vietnam and South Korea over the past 3 years, with passenger number hitting a record at 418,000 in 2006.
Vietnam Airlines previously said it will open direct flight to the US at the end of 2007 but then had to delay until the end of 2008 because shortage of aircraft, fierce competition with the US airlines and strict regulations set by the US Aviation Administration. (Young People)
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