Moscow (VNA) –The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines held a ceremony in Moscow onSeptember 7 to mark the 25th anniversary of its route to Russia.
The event took place on theoccasion of the official visit to Russia by General Secretary of the CommunistParty of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, and was attended by manyleading officials of the Party, State, National Assembly and Government.
Prominent among theattendees was Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh who delivered hiscongratulatory address.
Vietnam Airlines opened itsfirst route from Hanoi to Russia on July 7, 1993 with stopovers in Ho Chi MinhCity, Dubai or Berlin. Later on, it started to conduct direct flightsconnecting the two countries in 2005, increasing the volume of passengers byover 10 folds compared to the time before that. It is projected that by the endof this year, Vietnam Airlines will have served about 1.6 million passengers travellingbetween the two countries.
Russia always remains in thelist of top 10 markets of tourists to Vietnam, with a stable yearly growthaveraging 30 percent. Thanks to the deployment of Boeing 787-9 Dreamlineraircraft with a frequency of three flights per week starting in March, therevenue from passengers and cargo to Vietnam Airlines increases by 14 percentand 69 percent, respectively, over the same period last year.
Also on September 7, VietnamAirlines and the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot signed in Moscow an agreement onthe development of cooperation, under which the two will, from next year,implement the code sharing on Vietnamese and Russian domestic flights.
Speaking at the signingceremony, Vietnam Airlines Director General Duong Tri Thanh described theanniversary as an important landmark in the connection between the two countries,calling the flights the cultural bridges linking European and Asian civilizations.-VNA
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Illustrative photo (Source: Vietnam Airlines) 
