Vietjet Air to run 17 weekly flights on Vietnam-Australia routes
Budget carrier Vietjet Air plans to gradually increase the frequency of its round-trip flights between Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City and Australia to 17 per week in a bid to meet high travel demand during the peak season.
Hanoi (VNA) – Budget carrier Vietjet Air plans to graduallyincrease the frequency of its round-trip flights between Vietnam’s Ho Chi MinhCity and Australia to 17 per week in a bid to meet high travel demand during thepeak season.
Accordingly, on a weekly basis, there will be seven flights connectingthe southern Vietnamese metropolis to Sydney; as well as seven and three others linking it to Melbourne and Brisbane respectively. The higher frequencies willbegin in early December.
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HCM City welcomed more than 130,000 Australians last year,accounting for 3.5% of the total number of visitors to the southern economichub./.
Vietjet Air said on August 4 it will alter flight routes between Vietnam and Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China) from August 4-7 to avoid the airspace near Taiwan where China conducts military drills, in line with instructions by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).
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A Vietjet Air crew (Photo: Vietjet Air) 
