Vietnam Budget Airlines VietJet To Launch 13 New Routes To And From India, Add Airbus Planes

VietJet to launch 13 new Vietnam-India routes, add Airbus planes

HANOI:

Vietnam’s price range airline VietJet Aviation will launch 13 new routes between the Southeast Asian nation and India later this yr, the corporate stated on Monday, noting it additionally deliberate so as to add extra Airbus A330 planes.

The brand new routes to be launched from early September to early December will hyperlink Vietnam’s main cities and its tourism island of Phu Quoc with Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai, VietJet stated in a press release.

“We now prioritize increasing and rising flight operations to India…to serve the rise in demand for each leisure and enterprise journey,” VietJet Vice President Nguyen Thanh Son stated.

The airline at present operates 4 Vietnam-India routes, linking Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Metropolis with New Delhi and Mumbai.

VietJet, which operates a fleet of 80 Airbus plane on round 100 routes, plans so as to add extra A330 widebody planes as a part of its fleet improvement plan, it stated.

The airline, which at present has two leased A330 planes, stated it intends to extend the quantity to no less than 10 however didn’t give any timeframe.