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Vietnam Airlines debuts premium economy seats for Japanese routes

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has introduced its premium economy class for routes connecting Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Tokyo of Japan.
Vietnam Airlines debuts premium economy seats for Japanese routes ảnh 1A VietnamAirlines aircraft (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The national flag carrier VietnamAirlines has introduced its premium economy class for routes connecting Hanoiand Ho Chi Minh City to Tokyo of Japan.

Premium economy seats have been installed on Boeing 787-9and Airbus A350-900 planes, offering more convenient space and associatedservices compared to the economy ones.

The class comes with separate counters for boardingprocedures, with its passengers prioritised during custom clearance process andhaving baggage allowances equaling to those on the business class.

Vietnam Airlines and its subsidiaries, Jetstar Pacific andVasco, operated approximately 180,000 flights in 2017, carrying 26.5 million passengersand 343,000 tonnes of cargo, up 6.7 percent and 19 percent, respectively, from2016.

The company made up roughly 60 percent of the domesticmarket share and about 32.3 percent of the market share of internationalpassengers flying to and from Vietnam.-VNA
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