Budget carrier VietJet Air launched new flight services linking the central city of Da Nang with India’s Mumbai and New Delhi with a ceremony at Da Nang International Airport on October 18.

There will be three flights each week using Airbus A320 on the Mumbai – Da Nang route every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and four flights a week on the New Delhi-Da Nang route every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

New flight routes between Vietnam and India will make important contributions to bilateral economic and cultural exchanges, especially in tourism.
The inauguration of flights linking Da Nang and New Delhi, Mumbai will help Da Nang realize its goal of becoming a quality tourism and service hub, and an innovative destination of Vietnam and in Southeast Asia by 2030.
Da Nang will hold a ceremony welcoming the first flight from New Delhi on October 19, following another from Mumbai that landed in the city early October 18.

VietJet Air also plans to open a direct flight connecting Da Nang with Ahmedabad this December.

Last two-week VietJet began direct services to Ahmedabad (India) from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh by VietJet.

Last month VietJet began direct services to New Delhi and Mumbai from Phu Quoc Island.

Vietnam received 94,000 Indian visitors in the first nine months of this year. There had been 200,000 in 2019, the year before Covid began.

Since March Vietnam has allowed quarantine-free entry and resumed its pre-pandemic visa policies under which Indians can apply for e-visas to enter the country.

This year 200,000 international visitors have come to Da Nang, well above its full-year target of 180,000.