Int’l airline network to connect Vietnam to larger world
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to develop direct air routes between Vietnam and key countries and regions across the world, aiming to promote investment, cultural exchange and international integration.
An aircraft takes off from Tan Son Nhat international airport, Ho Chi Minh City (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to develop direct air routes between Vietnamand key countries and regions across the world, aiming to promote investment,cultural exchange and international integration.
The project aims to develop an international air route network connecting Vietnamand countries and areas such as the US, China, the Republic of Korea, Japan,Thailand, Malaysia, Russia, Germany, Australia, France, the UK and India, aswell as potential markets like the United Arab Emirates and South Africa, which will be run by bothdomestic and foreign airlines.
It will also focus on how to link aviation activities and tourism development,towards attracting more foreign visitors to Vietnam.
The project is hoped to make it easy for foreign airlines to increase thefrequency of flights from international airports to those of Vietnam.
Regarding Vietnam’s airline development with China, the Ministry of Transport willwork with Chinese authorities in charge of airline affairs to removedifficulties facing Vietnamese airlines in running routes to China.
By 2020, Vietnamese carriers will open new routes from several economic hubs andtourism cities of Vietnam to Chinese localities.
Vietnam and Russia will also consider signing more agreements to expand airroutes connecting the two countries and routes from Vietnam to third countriesthrough Russian airports.
New air routes will be opened to connect Vietnam and Russia’s Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok cities,while the number of flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Moscow will beincreased.
Vietnam will also develop direct air routes to the cities of San Francisco and LosAngeles of the US in 2018.-VNA
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An aircraft takes off from Tan Son Nhat international airport, Ho Chi Minh City (Source: VNA) 
