Hanoi (VNA) – Budget carrier Vietjet Air announced on November 6 that itwill offer 10,000 promotional tickets on flights to Japan from November 7-9.
The promotional tickets, priced from 0 VND,are on sale to mark the launch of the Hanoi-Osaka route on November 8, 2018.
They will be applicable for Hanoi-Osakaflights from November 8, Ho Chi Minh City-Osaka flights from December 14 andHanoi-Tokyo flights from January 11, 2019, to March 30, 2019.
The promotionaltickets are available on www.vietjetair.com and www.facebook.com/vietjetvietnam.
Aiming tobecome a “consumer airline,” Vietjet Air often opens new routes, adds moreaircraft to its fleet, invests in modern technology and offers more added-onproducts and services.
With a fleet of more than 60 aircraft, VietjetAir operates 385 flights each day. The airline has already transported morethan 60 million passengers on a network featuring 93 routes in Vietnam andacross the region to international destinations such as Thailand, Singapore,the Republic of Korea, China’s Taiwan and Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia,Indonesia, Myanmar and Cambodia.
The carrier plans to operate more than 120,000flights and serve some 24.1 million passengers by the end of 2018 on a total of39 domestic and 61 international routes.-VNA
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Illustrative photo (Photo: VNA) 
