Vietjet offers special prices to enjoy Songkran festival

Vietjet offers more than a half of million tickets priced from only 0 VND on some flights to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia during three golden days from April 4 2018 to celebrate the Songkran Festival.
Vietjet offers special prices to enjoy Songkran festival ảnh 1Vietjet offers more than a half of million tickets priced from only 0 VND on some flights to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia during three golden days from April 4 2018 to celebrate the Songkran Festival (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) –
Vietjet offersmore than a half of million tickets priced from only 0 VND on some flights toThailand, Myanmar and Cambodia during three golden days from April 4 2018 to celebratethe Songkran Festival.

The promotional tickets are available for international routes flying toBangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai (Thailand)/ Yangon (Myanmar) and Phnom Penh, SiemReap (Cambodia).

The promotion is also applied for other international routes to Seoul, Busan (theRepublic of Korea)/ Hong Kong/ Kaoshiung, Taipei, Taichung, Tainan (Taiwan)/Singapore/ Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

The flight period of this promotion is from May 5 to December 31, 2018.

The promotional tickets are available during the golden hours from 12:00 to 14:00 on www.vietjetair.com.

Songkran – the New Year Festival of Thailand,Cambodia (also known as Chol Chnam Thmay) and Myanmar (Thingyan) is celebratedin April every year, attracting tourists by native traditional cultures,festive atmosphere and splashing water tradition to wash away bad lucks andpray for a new good year.

Vietjet is the first airline in Vietnam to operate as a new-age airline withlow-cost and diversified services to meet customers’ demands. It provides notonly transport services but also uses the latest e-commerce technologies tooffer various products and services for consumers. Vietjet is a member of theInternational Air Transport Association (IATA) with the IATA Operational SafetyAudit (IOSA) certificate.

The airline was also named as one of theTop 500 Brands in Asia 2016 by global marketing research company Nielsen andthe “Best Asian Low Cost Carrier” at the TTG Travel Awards 2015, which compilesvotes from travelers, travel agencies and tour operators in throughout Asia andAsia’s Best Employer Brand by the Employer Branding Institute and World HRDCongress for many years. The airline was also rated as one of the top threefastest growing airline brands on Facebook in the world by Socialbakers.

Currently, the airline boasts a fleet of 56aircraft, including A320s and A321s, and operates 385 flights each day. It hasalready transported more than 55 million passengers on a network featuring 82routes in Vietnam and across the region to international destinations such asThailand, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia,Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia. - VNA 
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