Thai Vietjet’s aircraft is taking off (Source: Vietjet)Hanoi (VNA) - ThaiVietjet, a subsidiary of Vietnamese budgetairline Vietjet Air, has won another major award, receiving globalrecognition as the ‘Fastest Growing Low-Cost Carrier of the year’ in Thailand,conferred by Global Business Outlook Magazine.
The award highlights Thai Vietjet’s achievements infleet and new destination growth. Starting operations for both internationaland domestic services in late 2016 with only three aircraft, the carrier hasobtained triple-digit growth since then with 13 aircraft, together with 14 Thaidomestic destinations and 17 other international routes operated to Vietnam,Taiwan, and mainland China.
Thai Vietjet’s cabin crew are walking in Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok (Source: Vietjet)With seven new routes recently announced in 2020,Thai Vietjet plans to carry more than three million passengers this year with afleet of 15 aircraft.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great damage tothe global economy and tourism in general, leaving the aviation industry with alot of challenges. With our efforts and better defining our mission in theeconomy in general and the tourism industry in particular, we have urgentlychanged our development strategies to help keep travel and tourism activefollowing a good disease prevention and control. People will not bear themissing of traveling due to the COVID-19. They still can fly whenever they likeas we have offered and will bring more traveling opportunities by opening newflights with safe, fun and enjoyable experience,” said NguyenThi Thuy Binh, Chairwoman of Thai Vietjet.
Vietjet cabin crew is serving passengers onboard (Source: Vietjet)The Global Business Outlook Award 2020 honorsorganizations and enterprises with excellent performance in the past year forthe innovations, creativity, and business advantages. This year, Thai Vietjetwas one of the awardees. Global Business Outlook is a prestigious businessjournal specialized in news on global business Airlines, finance, and banking,providing information on trends and developments which have quite an influenceon the global business around the world. Readers of the journal includemanagers, administrators of top global firms and corporations.
The new-age carrier Vietjet has not onlyrevolutionized the aviation industry in Vietnam but also been a pioneering airlineacross the region and around the world. With a focus on cost managementability, effective operations and performance, Vietjet offers flyingopportunities with cost-saving and flexible fares as well as diversifiedservices to meet customers’ demands.
Thai Vietjet is honored as ‘Fastest Growing Low-Cost Carrier of the year’ in Thailand (Source: Vietjet)Vietjet is a fully-fledged member ofInternational Air Transport Association (IATA) with the IATA Operational SafetyAudit (IOSA) certificate. As Vietnam’s largest private carrier, the airline wasawarded the highest ranking for safety with 7 stars in 2018 and 2019 by theworld’s only safety and product rating website airlineratings.com and listed asone of the world's 50 best airlines for healthy financing and operations byAirfinance Journal in 2018 and 2019. The airline has also been named as Best Low-CostCarrier by renowned organizations such as Skytrax, CAPA, Airline Ratings, andmany others./.
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