Thai budget carrier launches daily Da Nang-Bangkok flights
Thai budget carrier AirAsia has launched a new route between the central city of Da Nang and Bangkok, capital of Thailand, seven days a week, starting from June 9.
An airplane of AirAsia (Photo: malaysia-chronicle.com)
Da Nang(VNA) - Thai budget carrier AirAsia has launched a new route between thecentral city of Da Nang and Bangkok, capital of Thailand, seven days a week,starting from June 9.
The city’s tourism promotion centre said it’s the third airline operating theBangkok-Da Nang route after Bangkok Airways and Vietnam Airlines.
Daily flights will depart from Da Nang at 12pm and arrive in Bangkok at 1.20pm,while the flights from Bangkok will take off at 10.10am and land in Da Nang at11.30am.
AirAsia began offering a Kuala Lumpur-Da Nang route, with four weekly directflights, in 2014.
According to the centre, the new route would offer more chances for touriststraveling between Vietnam’s central region and Bangkok.
Last year, Bangkok Airways operated four flights per week with 144 Economyclass seats on an Airbus 319.
In 2014, local travel firm Viettravel also offered direct charter flightsbetween the city and Bangkok on Thai Vietjet.
According to the city, import-export turnover between Thailand and Da Nangreached 30.2 million USD, of which 28.5 million USD was exports from Thailand.
Thailand has only had one investment project in the city so far.
Da Nang welcomed a mere 24,000 tourists from Thailand – 1.4 per cent of totalforeign tourists visiting the city – in 2016.
It has hosted the annual East-West Corridor Trade Fair since 2007, whichattracted businesses from Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
The city, which is situated at the end of the East-West Economic Corridor –linking Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, is connected by 25 internationalroutes with over 5.6 million tourists in 2016.-VNA
The 180-seat Airbus A320 of Jetstar Pacific en route from Da Nang landed in Hong Kong (China) on March 27, marking a new connection between the central resort city and the Chinese territory.
The budget carrier Vietjet Air on May 19 opened a new route connecting Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang with Seoul, the capital city of the Republic of Korea (RoK).
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An airplane of AirAsia (Photo: malaysia-chronicle.com) 
