An aircraft of Vietnam Airlines at Da Nang International Airport (Photo: VNA)Da Nang (VNS/VNA) - Da Nang will connect with more countries around the world as newflights are launched to more destinations from the central city.
Directand charters flights will operate connecting Da Nang with the Republic of Korea, Jakarta (Indonesia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Haneda (Japan), Taiwan, India, Australia and Russia fromnext year.
DeputyDirector of the city’s Tourism Department Truong Thi Hong Hanh saidRussian Anex Tourism Group (ATG) proposed the first chartered flights from fourcities – Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk – to Da Nang betweenMarch and September 2020.
Accordingto ATG, the flight would operate every 10 days, bringing from 3,000 to 3,500tourists monthly from Russia to Da Nang on board a Boeing B-767.
Hanh said the city has also launched for new air routes from Da Nang to Indiaand Australia as well as the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.
SriwijayaAir are also planning flights from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Da Nang in the future,according to the department.
She saidbudget airline, VietJet Air plans to launch the Da Nang-Haneda, Japan and Da Nang-Taiwan soon.
In ameeting in August, representative of the Cambodia Angkor Air said it wouldlaunch direct flights from Da Nang to Phnom Penh with four flights per weekstarting next month.
Da Nangalso sees arrivals from Thailand as three airlines – Thai AirAsia, VietJet Airand Bangkok Airways – operate 56 flights per week.
Charteredflights between Da Nang and Nagoya, Japan also started in June as a preparationfor launching a regular direct route following a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) signed between authorities of Da Nang International Airport and Chubu Centrair International Airportof Japan in February.
Accordingto the city’s tourism department, Da Nang had 48 international air routes with462 flights per week, while 11 domestic routes operated with 665 flights in aweek.
Da Nang welcomed five milliontourists, of which nearly two million were foreigners, in the first seven monthof this year.
Koreanvisitors were the largest with more than one million tourists, 54 percent oftotal foreign tourists visiting Da Nang. Chinese second with 500,000 tourists –26 percent of total international tourists in the city, followed by Thailandand Japan./.
VNA
