Vietjet Air adds five air routes between Vietnam, Japan
Budget carrier Vietjet Air on January 13 announced that it has opened five more air routes linking culture, economic and political centres of Vietnam and Japan in 2020.
Hanoi (VNA) - Budgetcarrier Vietjet Air on January 13 announced that it has opened five moreair routes linking culture, economic and political centres of Vietnam and Japanin 2020.
Accordingly, the new routes will connect Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and DaNang of Vietnam to Nagoya city; and Hanoi to Fukuoka and Kagoshima.
Nagoya and Fukuoka are the third and fourth largest cities of Japan, while Kagoshimais home to a large Vietnamese community.
With a total of 10 routes connecting Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang to Tokyo,Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Kagoshima, VietjetAir continuously contributes to the addition of travel options, thushelping promote cultural and economic exchange between the two nations.
Vietjet is the first in Vietnam to operate as a new-ageairline offering flexible, cost-saving ticket fares and diversified services tomeet customers’ demands. It is a fully-fledged member of the International AirTransport Association (IATA) with the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA)certificate.
The airlines was named “Best Ultra Low-CostAirline 2018 - 2019” and awarded the highest ranking for safety with 7 stars in2018 by the world’s only safety and product rating website AirlineRatings.com. Ithas also been listed as one of the world's 50 best airlines for healthyfinancing and operations by Airfinance Journal in 2018.
It owns one of the world’s newest and most modern fleet with an average age ofonly 2.7 years operating at the highest quality and safety standards
Currently, Vietjet operates around 400 flightsdaily and have carried around 100 million passengers to date, with 120 routescovering destinations across Vietnam and international ones such as Japan, HongKong, Singapore, the RoK, Taiwan, mainland China, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia,Cambodia and Indonesia./.
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An aircraft of Vietjet Air (Source: VNA) 
