Vietnam Travel News

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has readied itself for the Festival Hue 2008, a biannual event of art, culture, and tourism scheduled to take place in the former imperial city from June 3 to 11, the organizer said.

Vietnam’s second carrier Pacific Airlines will postpone the operation of the Hcm city – Danang and HCM City – Buon Me Thuot routes schedule for August 2008 because petroleum and oil price rises, announced the airline.

Pacific Airlines has lately announced its plan to suspend flights between Ho chi minh city to Da lat and Buon Me Thuot cities from August 2008 due to the oil price rise.

One week after Lion Air resumed Jakarta-Singapore-HCM City service, the Indonesian ‘hybrid’ carrier organised a familiarisation (FAM) trip to Hcm city for 12 journalists from Jakarta and eight from Singapore to introduce HCM City’s attractions to Indonesian and Singaporean tourists.

The country's third air carrier VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co. (VietJetAir) is cooperating with PARC Aviation in recruiting senior executives to prepare for its operations in Vietnam Robert Hughes, managing director of VietJetAir, talks with the Daily how the first private Airline in vietnam has readied itself for the take-off scheduled for late this year. Excerpts follow:

The Vietnam national flag carrier (Vietnam Airlines) said on April 23 it will add 12 more Flights on routes from Hanoi and Ho chi minh city to popular tourist destinations such as Danang Nha trang Da lat Hue and Phu quoc to serve the increased travel demand during the holidays of April 30 and May 1.

The plans by airports to raise airport fees have been facing strong opposition from Airlines As a result, airports have decided not to raise fees at this moment.

The budget Airline Air Asia, the biggest in Asia, has officially open two flight routes to Ho chi minh city from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Bangkok (Thailand).

The Representative Office of the People’s Committee of central Da nang province in Tokyo has submitted a scheme to open a direct Air route from Da Nang to Japan to Vietnam’s Government and Ministry of Transport for approval.

The Korean-based operator Asiana Airlines is scheduled to begin service between Seoul and Danang in July.