VietNamNet Bridge –
After several years of eyeing the Vietnamese aviation market, foreign
airlines now move ahead with their plans to increase their presence in
Vietnam.
At the Vietnam-Ukraine Business Forum held in Hanoi late
last week, Ukraine Prime Minister M. Azarov, emphasized that Ukraine
really wishes to cooperate with Vietnam in the aviation sector.
The
Prime Minister said it is the aviation industry which is one of the
greatest advantages of Ukraine. It has Antonov, the aircraft factory
which specializes in making very large transport aircrafts,
inter-regional passenger airplanes with modern and safe technologies
which are in no way inferior to any kinds of planes made in Europe or
the US.
A lot of foreign aviation complexes have been taking steps to set their foot on the Vietnamese market.
David
Cunningham, President of FedEx Express in Asia Pacific, has revealed
that FedEx has applied for setting up a 100 percent foreign owned
business in Vietnam.
In an effort to expand the Vietnamese
market, Emirates airlines from the Gulf has recently launched Boeing
777-300ER for the direct air route HCM City – Dubai.
Prior to
that, in June 2012, Emirates began providing direct flights between HCM
City and Dubai with Airbus 330-200. However, later, in order to satisfy
the increasingly high demand, Emirates has decided to use Boeing 777,
which allows increasing the passenger transport capability by 50
percent.
Also from the Gulf, Etihad Airways of UAE plans to
provide direct flights between Dhabi in UAE and HCM City in Vietnam in
October 2013.
Etihad Airways’ General Director James Hogan, said
HCM City would be the new destination of the airline in South East Asia,
together with Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore.
He
said that the daily flights of Etihad would not only target businessmen
and travelers to Vietnam, but also strive to push up the trade and
cooperation between UAE and Vietnam.
The airline has said it
would exploit the new air route with Airbus A330-200. Eihad can also
carry 10 tons of cargo on every flight between the two cities,
especially garments and food products.
To date, Etihad has
code-sharing flights with Vietnam Airlines to serve the Eithad’s
passengers who want to travel from Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur to HCM City
and Hanoi.
Etihad has also signed a strategic agreement with Air
France-KLM on the code-sharing flights of the two airlines, commencing
from October 28, 2012. Meanwhile, the Hanoi – Abu Dhabi air route would
be opened soon.
Qatar Airways from the Gulf has been providing
the flights between Vietnam and Qatar, with the aircraft landing at both
the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi and Tan Son Nhat airport in HCM City.
Kazakh
Air Astana has revealed its plan to launch the direct air route from
Almaty to HCM City, slated for mid-December, or early January 2013. The
flights, two a week, would be taken with Boeing 757 with transits in
Bangkok.
Indian Jet Airways is conducting market surveys in its
plan to open the Mumbai – HCM City air route in the future. This is the
next step taken by Jet Airways after it signed a memorandum of
understanding with Vietnam Airlines in October 2011 on the opening of
the air route HCM City – Bangkok – Mumbai.
Turkey is also moving
ahead with the plan to provide direct flights between Turkey and
Vietnam. At present, Turkish Airlines provides four flights a week from
Istanbul to HCM City.
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