Thursday 26 October 2017

VietJet Air's new international routes from December 2017

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



VietJet Air has begun to sell online tickets of three new routes that will be operated on a scheduled basis from December 2017, while online ticket sales of the much-anticipated Ho Chi Minh City-Jakarta flight that commences on 20 December 2017* are on hold. 

The three new routes are Nha Trang - Incheon, commencing 6 December 2017, Ho Chi Minh City - Chiang Mai and Ho Chi Minh City - Phuket, to be launched on 12 and 15 December 2017 respectively. 

Airbus A320 aircraft will be deployed on the routes to the two Thai cities from Ho Chi Minh City while an A321 aircraft will fly on the route to Incheon from Nha Trang.

Starting 6 December 2017, VietJet Air flight VJ838 departs from Nha Trang for Incheon at 4.15 pm, arrives in Incheon at 10.45 pm before leaving Incheon for Nha Trang at 1.50 am on 7 December 2017 and touching down in Nha Trang at 5.25 am under flight VJ839. 

Direct flights from Nha Trang to Incheon are operated on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays while the flights to Nha Trang from Incheon are on Thursdays, Saturdays and Mondays.

The Nha Trang - Incheon route is Nha Trang Airport's first international scheduled link with a South Korean airport and VietJet Air's first international scheduled service from Nha Trang. 

Currently, VietJet Air operates charter flights from Nha Trang to Hangzhou, Ningbo, Pudong, Tianjin, Wuhan and Wuxi and domestic scheduled flights from Nha Trang.

On 12 December 2017, flight VJ891 leaves Ho Chi Minh City for Chiang Mai at 11.35 am, touches down in Chiang Mai at 1.30 pm before departing from Chiang Mai for Ho Chi Minh City at 2.20 pm and arriving in Ho Chi Minh City at 4.25 pm under flight VJ892. Flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Chiang Mai are operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Commencing 15 December 2017, flight VJ809 departs from Ho Chi Minh City for Phuket at 10.15 am, lands in Phuket at 12.10 pm local time and takes off under flight VJ808 from Phuket at 2.20 pm and touches down in Ho Chi Minh City at 4.25 pm.

Tourists from Hong Kong can connect to VietJet Air's new flights to Chiang Mai and Phuket via Ho Chi Minh City, according to VietJet Air and its media representative Media Services HK.

With the opening of the new routes to Chiang Mai and Phuket, VietJet Air operates six routes to Thailand including routes from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Suvarnabhumi.

To celebrate the two new Thai route launches, VietJet Air offers 180,000 online free promotional tickets on www.vietjetair.com between 1 pm and 3 pm until 27 October 2017.  Airport taxes and surcharges are to be paid upon booking. These tickets are applicable on all VietJet international routes including Hong Kong - Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh - Ho Chi Minh City, Siem Reap - Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore - Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore - Hanoi and Kuala Lumpur - Ho Chi Minh City.  Payment can be easily made with debit and credit cards of VISA, Master, AMEX, JCP and KCP.

The promotions' travel period is from 1 November 2017 to 31 May 2018, excluding public holidays, and are subject to the effective dates of flight operations. 


* For VietJet Air's Indonesia route launch, please refer to this news link : http://kucinta-setia.blogspot.sg/2017/08/vietjet-air-launches-scheduled-flight.html 

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