HCMC – Vietnamese airline Vietjet has announced the launch of a new direct air service between Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and HCMC, Vietnam.
There will be four weekly flights, departing on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Each flight between HCMC and Vientiane takes around one hour and 45 minutes.
Nguyen Thanh Son, vice president of Vietjet, said that the new air service would create more opportunities for economic cooperation, tourism, and cultural exchange between the two neighboring countries.
In recent years, Vietnam has become Laos’s second largest tourism source market, while Laos is one of Vietnam’s top 15 largest tourism markets.
