VietJet wins over more international travelers than state-run rival
Low-cost carrier VietJet Air in the first seven months of the year carried 4.2m international travelers, 6.6 times the number from the year-earlier period and more than those who flew with state-run Vietnam Airlines. The privately owned budget airline chalked up the surge to the opening of new routes and the COVID-19 virus mutating into something manageable without social restrictions. According to figures from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, or CAAV, Vietnamese and overseas airlines flying to the country carried 17.63m international passengers in the seven months through July, 4.6 times more than in the year-earlier period. VietJet accounted for 24.1% of the total, about 5 percentage points ahead of second-ranked Vietnam Airlines. While international passenger growth was faster at VietJet than it was for Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways, it was slower than that at Pacific Airlines, a low-cost carrier affiliated with Vietnam Airlines. Pacific Airlines carried 8.3 times more passengers during the first seven months of the year than it did in the same months of 2022. Vietnam Airlines drew 4.3 times more customers and Bamboo Airways 3.3 times more. VietJet barreled ahead with its international expansion. It opened 11 new routes to Australia, India and Indonesia in the first six months of this year. By the end of June, it was serving 120 total routes. Of these, 75 were international. The LCC is also flying to more Japan destinations, seeing the country as "an important market with great growth potential," Executive Vice President Nguyen Thanh Son said. In July it inaugurated direct flights between Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's biggest city, and Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Next month VietJet plans to inaugurate direct flights between Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and Hiroshima Airport in western Japan. VietJet plans to operate 139,513 domestic and international flights this year, up about 20% from 2022.<br/>
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VietJet wins over more international travelers than state-run rival
Low-cost carrier VietJet Air in the first seven months of the year carried 4.2m international travelers, 6.6 times the number from the year-earlier period and more than those who flew with state-run Vietnam Airlines. The privately owned budget airline chalked up the surge to the opening of new routes and the COVID-19 virus mutating into something manageable without social restrictions. According to figures from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, or CAAV, Vietnamese and overseas airlines flying to the country carried 17.63m international passengers in the seven months through July, 4.6 times more than in the year-earlier period. VietJet accounted for 24.1% of the total, about 5 percentage points ahead of second-ranked Vietnam Airlines. While international passenger growth was faster at VietJet than it was for Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways, it was slower than that at Pacific Airlines, a low-cost carrier affiliated with Vietnam Airlines. Pacific Airlines carried 8.3 times more passengers during the first seven months of the year than it did in the same months of 2022. Vietnam Airlines drew 4.3 times more customers and Bamboo Airways 3.3 times more. VietJet barreled ahead with its international expansion. It opened 11 new routes to Australia, India and Indonesia in the first six months of this year. By the end of June, it was serving 120 total routes. Of these, 75 were international. The LCC is also flying to more Japan destinations, seeing the country as "an important market with great growth potential," Executive Vice President Nguyen Thanh Son said. In July it inaugurated direct flights between Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's biggest city, and Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Next month VietJet plans to inaugurate direct flights between Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and Hiroshima Airport in western Japan. VietJet plans to operate 139,513 domestic and international flights this year, up about 20% from 2022.<br/>
