First passengers boarding the direct flight from Kuala Lumpur get off the plan at Cam Ranh airport on September 14 (Photo: VNA)Nha Trang (VNA) – A direct flight route between Vietnam’s central Khanh Hoa province andMalaysia’s capital city Kuala Lumpur was launched on September 14.
Close to 380passengers were on board the September 14 A320 flights, which took off from KualaLumpur at 10:30 and landed Cam Ranh International Airport in Khanh Hoa at11:35; and left Cam Ranh airport at 12:00 and arrived in KualaLumpur at 15:15.
At a press conference introducing the route in Nha Trang city the same day,AirAsia representatives said the carrier operates two flights a day on theroute, aiming to draw more Malaysians to Nha Trang while enabling local peopleand Nha Trang’s foreign visitors to fly to over 120 destinations in Asia usingits services.
This is AirAsia’s 54th exclusive route from Malaysia in Asia, according to Spencer Lee, the carrier’scommercial director.
Khanh Hoa catered for nearly 1 million foreign visitors in the first half ofthis year, expanding by 80 percent from the same period last year.
AirAsia is the largest and leading budget carrier in Asia. It has transportedover 400 million passengers by a fleet of over 200 planes since 2001 when itlaunched the first service.-VNA
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