VietJet may buy 787s or A350s as airline weighs US route

VietJet Aviation plans to expand its fleet to include wide-body jets as the carrier considers California as its first US destination starting about 2019. The airline would use the larger aircraft to begin the route after the US FAA grants Vietnam airlines permission to fly to America, said Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, VietJet’s founder and CE. The first flights could link the Southeast Asian nation with the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International, located near a large Vietnamese community, and would also be close enough to serve San Francisco, she said. “We aim to expand international flights in the next few years” Thao said in an interview. “We want to make international flights 60% of our total flights. We are also studying the possibility of using widebody planes for long-haul flights when market conditions are favourable.” <br/>