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Vietnam Airlines wide-body Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (Photo courtesy of Vietnam Airlines) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam Airlines, the country's national flag carrier, looks to dominate the Vietnam-US route as preparations have been completed for its first direct flight to the US, which is scheduled to take off on November 28, said General Director of Vietnam Airlines Le Hong Ha. The Vietnam-US route was among one of the most in-demand pre-pandemic. There were 24,000 Vietnamese university students and a 2.2 million strong Vietnamese community in the US in 2020. Two-way trade has been on the rise in recent years reaching 90 billion USD in 2020 and projected to hit over 100 billion USD this year, making the Southeast Asian economy one of the US’s top trading partners. As a result, the airline is confident demand will quickly recover once the pandemic is put under control and mobility restrictions relaxed, Ha said. Competition, however, is expected to be fierce as the … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines aims to win largest share on direct Vietnam-US route

National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) will operate two direct flights between Vietnam and the United States each week, with the first plane scheduled to take off on Sunday evening. Flight VN98 carrying 150 passengers will depart Ho Chi Minh City and head for San Francisco at 8:40 pm on Sunday. This will be the first time ever for a Vietnamese airline to operate a direct commercial flight between Vietnam and the U.S.. VNA previously received a foreign air operator certificate issued by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on November 16, which allowed the carrier to run regular direct flights to the States. In order to obtain the certificate, the airline had worked with nine U.S. agencies for about 15 months to complete the procedures, VNA's CEO Le Hong Ha told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in an interview. The airline will run two direct flights between Vietnam and the U.S. each week, using the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, Ha continued. The flight from … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines to operate 2 direct flights between Vietnam and US each week: CEO