Chairman the National Assembly of Vietnamm Vương Đình Huệ (third from right), Speaker of the Lok Sabha of India Om Birla, and Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Lê Minh Khái at the announcement ceremony in Hanoi. — Courtesy of Vietjet
HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): Vietjet has announced four new services from Vietnam to India, marking the airline’s post-pandemic return and continued expansion in the country with a population of 1.4 billion people.
The announcement ceremony on Tuesday (April 19) in Hanoi was attended by chairman the National Assembly of Vietnam Vương Đình Huệ, Speaker of the Lok Sabha of India Om Birla, and Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Lê Minh Khái. The event was held during the official visit of an Indian Parliament delegation to Vietnam.
These routes include Hanoi-Mumbai, HCM City-Mumbai, Phú Quốc-New Delhi and Phú Quốc- Mumbai.
"We are thrilled to continue connecting Vietnam with India, the country of 1.4 billion population via six direct routes, and reenergise our operations right in the post pandemic environment,” said Vietjet Managing Director Đinh Việt Phương.
“With flights of just over five hours per leg, Vietjet's renewed and increased connectivity between the two nations will create many more trade and tourism opportunities between the two countries, helping to boost the economies of both."
"The expansion of Vietjet's flight network into India also reaffirms the airline's ongoing commitment to continuously help travellers save on cost and time,” he added.
The direct routes from HCM City and Hannoi to Mumbai will commence operation on June 2 and June 3, 2022 with a frequency of four weekly return flights and three weekly return flights respectively.
Meanwhile, the Phú Quốc-Mumbai route will operate four round trips per week from Sept 8, 2022 and the Phú Quốc-New Delhi route will have a frequency of three round trips per week from Sept 9, 2022.
Prior to the pandemic, Vietjet had operated two direct routes linking Vietam’s capital city of Hanoi and the financial hub of HCM City with India's capital city of New Delhi in addition to charter flights from Vietnam to Bodh Gaya, the Indian Buddhist pilgrimage site.
The two existing services between HCM City/Hanoi and New Delhi will soon resume, on April 29 and April 30, 2022 respectively, with a frequency of three weekly return flights on each route.
