In great news for Australians who increasingly appear to be visiting Vietnam in their droves Sydneysiders will now have another direct option to fly to Ho Chi Minh City with competitively priced Vietnamese budget carrier VietJet to launch direct flights between the two cities.
The new flights which will debut shortly after the already announced Melbourne services will begin on April 12 with three flights a week on the airline’s Airbus A330 aircraft. The new services will be wheels up out of Ho Chi Minh City at 10.15am for a mid afternoon 4.30pm arrival every Monday, Thursday and Saturdays. The return service will leave Ho Chi Minh City every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings at 7.30pm local time for a arrival into Sydney at 7.20am the following morning.
The flights will be operated by the airline’s Airbus A330s and although the airline has a low cost focus the aircraft will still feature its ‘Sky Boss’ Business cabin offering 12 angled flat bed seats promising to deliver an affordable opportunity to try business class perhaps without all the latest and greatest trimmings but neither the price tag.
In addition to the new service to Sydney’s VietJet’s Melbourne services will start only days earlier on April 8 which will initially be a thrice weekly service departing on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings just after midnight at 12.30am before arriving into Ho Chi Min City nice and early at 5.15am later that morning. The return service will jet out of Ho Chi Minh City at 9.50am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday before arriving into Melbourne at 10.35pm that evening. Whilst the service will initially be limited to three times weekly it is understood that the airline has plans to hopefully increase the service to daily by the year’s end.
Vietjet is also believed to be planning even more services to capitalize on booming Aussie interest in visiting Vietnam and also the strong Vietnamese travel market to Australia for university education with plans to eventually launch flights to possibly Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide also in the pipeline.
