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Vietnam’s national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has resumed its regular flights linking Hanoi and Beijing after a three-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline’s flight VN513 departed from Beijing at 3:30 pm and landed in Hanoi at 5.55 pm on Sunday. Before the resumption of the Beijing-Hanoi flight, Vietnam Airlines held a welcoming ceremony for the passengers on board at Beijing International Airport, with the participation of Vietnam and China's competent agencies and enterprises and over 100 passengers. The air carrier is operating the Hanoi-Beijing air route with a frequency of three round-trip flights a week. The airline will start increasing its frequency from mid-2023, while planning to open an air route connecting with Beijing’s Daxing International Airport. China is one of Vietnam Airlines’ biggest international source markets. The air carrier has reopened most of its air routes linking Vietnam to China, said a representative of the airline. The … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines restarts air services between Hanoi and Beijing

A plane of Vietnam Airlines (Source: Vietnam Airlines) Beijing (VNA) – Vietnam Airlines conducted the first regular flight from Beijing ( China ) to Hanoi on March 19 after a three-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The flight, VN513, departed the Chinese capital at 3:30pm (Beijing time) and will arrive in Hanoi at 5:55pm (Hanoi time). Passengers were welcomed with a ceremony held by the national flag carrier of Vietnam at Beijing Capital International Airport. Vietnam Airlines is operating three round-trip flights per week between Hanoi and Beijing, and will increase the flights from mid-2023. It is also planning to open an air route connecting with Beijing Daxing International Airport. China is one of the biggest international markets of Vietnam Airlines, which has resumed most of its air routes to Chinese destinations, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with Guangzhou and Shanghai, and Hanoi with Beijing. In the coming months, the carrier … [Read more...] about Vietnam marks first regular flight from Beijing after three years

Ha Long Bay in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh (Source: Vinpearl) Tokyo (VNA) – A workshop on Vietnamese tourism and carriers, co-hosted by Vietnam Airlines and travel operator Thien Minh Group (TMG), took place in Tokyo on March 24, gathering 80 travel companies and airlines from both nations. In his remarks, Ngo Sy Anh , General Manager of Vietnam Airlines branch in Japan, affirmed the importance of the Japanese market to the company. Before the pandemic, the airline ran 68 flights every week to connect four major cities of Japan to Vietnam’s Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang. In 2019, it carried 1.6 million passengers on these routes. With the Vietnamese Government deciding to resume regular international flights from January 1 last year, Vietnam Airlines is now operating 42 flights linking the countries. At the event, participating Vietnamese travel, accommodation companies and carriers introduced Vietnam’s potential and attractive sites to … [Read more...] about Vietnam tourism promoted in Japan

The Vietnam Airlines Festa themed "Charming Autumn" is organized as part of a series of programs on tourism, cultural and social development cooperation between Vietnam Airlines and the Hanoi People's Committee. “Charming Autumn”, a tourist promotion event, and “Hanoi Promotion Month" consumption stimulus program will simultaneously be held from October 30 to November 1 at the pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem lake. An annual event is organized as part of a series of programs on tourism. The events, held under the Vietnam Airlines Festa program, and by the Hanoi People's Committee, respectively, will offer a number of travel and shopping choices for visitors. During the three days of the Vietnam Airlines Festa, Vietnam Airlines and its budget unit Pacific Airlines will offer 3,200 discount codes of up to 40% for visitors. When booking tickets on Vietnam Airlines’ website and application at the event for all trips departing from Hanoi, Haiphong, Thanh Hoa, … [Read more...] about Hanoi to host Charming Autumn program to stimulate domestic tourism

Foreign visitors at the Hoa Lo Prison Relic in Hanoi. (Photo: The Hanoi Times) Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoi Tourism Festival 2023 will take place in the downtown from March 23-26 to introduce local attractive tourist destinations , products, and services to international visitors. The event held in the pedestrian zone around the Hoan Kiem lake aims to promote cultural exchanges, honour cultural heritage, and ramp up tourism promotion activities, Nguyen Thi Mai Anh, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Centre for Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion, told at a press conference last week. With 150 booths displaying products from nearly 100 travel businesses, including Vietnam Airlines and Vietravel, it is hoped that these will serve as a magnet to attract visitors. Travel firms will launch a range of stimulus programmes, along with organising mini-game shows to attract visitors. Most notably, products of the capital’s craft villages such as Bat Trang, Van Phuc, and Duong … [Read more...] about Hanoi Tourism Festival 2023 takes place this week

Vietnam's Ministry of Transport has issued a decision to temporarily shut Dien Bien Airport in the namesake northern upland province for eight months for an upgrade and expansion, starting from mid-April. The airport, located in Thanh Truong Ward in Dien Bien Phu City, will be closed from April 15 to December 17 this year. The current Dien Bien Airport was restored from Muong Thanh Airport, which was constructed by the French. The airport has a runway which is 1,830 meters in length and 30 meters in width, three aprons, and a passenger terminal that was built in 2004 and has an annual capacity of 300,000 passengers. Due to the short runway and simple landing systems, Dien Bien Airport only serves ATR 72 turboprops and Embraer 190 jets, which can transport a maximum 114 passengers. The Dien Bien Airport expansion project is aimed at making it capable of handling modern Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft and the equivalent airliners. VASCO, a subsidiary of national flag carrier … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s Dien Bien to close airport for 8-month expansion project

The maximum airfare on four out of five flight distances will rise in the second or third quarter, according to a recent price report of the Ministry of Finance. The biggest increase will be 6.67% (to VND4 million or $170) for one-way tickets on flights of 1,280 kilometers (Hanoi to Phu Quoc Island) and longer. Flights between 1,000 and 1,280 kilometers will see their ticket cap price rise 6.25% to VND3.4 million. Flights of smaller distances will see their maximum price rise by between 2.27% and 3.58%. Flights under 500 kilometers will see no ceiling change. Their prices will remain at a maximum of VND1.7 million per one-way ticket. The cap price increase will likely bring Vietnam’s 2023 Consumer Price Index up by 0.07% points. Earlier this year, Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways proposed increasing the cap ticket price to take into account rising in costs. The airfare price cap was last increased in 2015. By November last year, fuel costs had surged more than 80% … [Read more...] about Vietnam to raise air ticket price cap

A dense cloud of smoke caused by field burning shrouded Dien Bien Airport in the eponymous province in northern Vietnam on Friday, resulting in many flight cancelations and detours. The smoke spreading from Laos, where farmers have been burning fields to clear them for the next crop, accompanied by fog made visibility decline considerably at Dien Bien Airport, according to a leader of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV). Consequently, one flight between Dien Bien and Ho Chi Minh City and two flights connecting Hanoi with the mountainous province, all of which were operated by Bamboo Airways, were canceled. Another flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Dien Bien was forced to make a detour to Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, from which its passengers were later transferred to the province by buses. VASCO, a subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines, also called off four flights between Hanoi and Dien Bien on the same day. This is not the first time that dense field burning … [Read more...] about Flights to northern Vietnam airport canceled due to field burning smoke from Laos

Accordingly, flight VN37 from Hanoi to Frankfurt will depart at 9:35p.m. on March 27 instead of 10:35p.m. on March 26, while flight VN36 from Frankfurt to Hanoi will take off at 11:15a.m. on March 28 instead of the old schedule at 1:55p.m. on March 27. Flight VN31 from Ho Chi Minh City to Frankfurt, which was scheduled to take off at 10:35p.m. on March 27, will depart at 9:30p.m. on March 28. Meanwhile, the departure time of flight VN30 from Frankfurt  to HCM City will be 11:45a.m. on March 28 instead of 2:35p.m. on March 27. Vietnam Airlines recommends that passengers planning to travel from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Frankfurt, or transiting in Frankfurt during this time should regularly update relevant information on the airline’s website, fanpage, mobile app, and ticket offices or agents nationwide, or call 1900 1100 (Vietnam) or  +84 24 38320 320  (from abroad). Source: VNA … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines’s flight schedule adjusted due to strike at Frankfurt airport

From now to the end of 2020, the tourism industry of the city will boost cooperation with localities nationwide to stimulate domestic travel. To materialize the motto “Vietnamese people travel in Vietnam,” the Hanoi Department of Tourism has cooperated with localities nationwide to develop tourism products and stimulate domestic demand in Hanoi and nationwide. St. Joseph's Cathedral Hanoi. Photo: Duy Khanh (Kinh te & Do thi) In this November, the department, in coordination with the Department of Tourism of Ho Chi Minh City and the central provinces will jointly organize a forum to link the central key economic region with Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in developing tourist products, supporting each other in building and operating tours, Mr. Kieu Viet, head of Accommodation Management Division under the Hanoi Tourism Department, told Hanoitimes . Earlier, during July-September, the department cooperated with the UNESCO Travel Club to organize a farm … [Read more...] about Hanoi to link with other localities to boost tourism growth