Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Budget carrier Vietjet Air officially launched itsfirst direct flights to Japan, connecting the capital city of Hanoi and Osakacity.
The new route is hoped to help boost tourism, trade and integration between thetwo countries.
The opening ceremony took place at Kansai Airport in the special traditional “KagamiBiraki” of Japan. All passengers onboard bothinaugural flights received charming gifts such as brocade bags, special pensand caps from Vietjet Air representatives.
“We are honoured that Kansai International Airport has beenchosen as Vietjet’s first destination in Japan from Hanoi and soon from HCMCity,” said Jeremy Goldstrich, Corporate Executive Vice President andChief Operating Officer of Kansai Airport.
“Hanoi is an amazing city and is also the gateway to worldfamous tourist destinations such as Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh and Sapa,” he said,expressing his hope that more people from Japan and Vietnam as well asinternational travellers can enjoy travelling, touring and trading between thecountries thanks to Vietjet’s affordable flights.
Using Vietjet’s modern new A321neo aircraft, the Hanoi-Osakaroute operates a daily return flight with a time of just over fourhours per leg. The flight departs from Hanoi at 1.40am and arrives inOsaka at 7:50am (local time). In the other direction, the flight takes offin Osaka at 9:20am (local time) and lands in Hanoi at around 1:05pm.
This is the first international route in the code-share programme between VietjetAir and Japan Airlines. The code-share service is also applied to domesticflights connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang,and Hanoi and Da Nang.
Vietjet’s new service to Osaka brings the airline’s total number ofinternational routes up to 64, with a network that spans 11 countries andterritories. The carrier will soon launch two other routes to Japan fromVietnam, including HCM City-Osaka (Kansai) from December 14, 2018 and Hanoi-Tokyo(Narita) from January 11, 2019.
To celebrate the new Hanoi-Osaka route, Vietjet is offering 10,000 promotionaltickets on flights to Japan, priced from zero dong, from November 7-9.
They are applicable for Hanoi-Osaka flightsfrom November 8, Ho Chi Minh City-Osaka flights from December 14 andHanoi-Tokyo flights from January 11, 2019, to March 30, 2019.
The promotional tickets are available onwww.vietjetair.com and www.facebook.com/vietjetvietnam.
With a fleet of more than 60 aircraft, Vietjetoperates 385 flights each day. The airline has already transported more than 60million passengers on a network featuring 93 routes in Vietnam and across theregion to international destinations such as Thailand, Singapore, the Republicof Korea, China’s Taiwan and Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia, Indonesia,Myanmar and Cambodia.
The carrier plans to operate more than 120,000flights and serve some 24.1 million passengers by the end of 2018 on a total of39 domestic and 61 international routes. -VNA
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