December 20, 2011
No disciplinary measures taken after civil aviation authority finds national carrier breached its own procedures and regulations A Vietnam Airlines aircraft taxiing at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport. The national flag carrier has broken its own rules in hiring foreign pilots, an inquiry has found. National carrier Vietnam Airlines (VNA) has been breaking its [...]
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December 6, 2011
The first private airline licensed in Vietnam four years ago officially joined the market Friday, introducing itself as a low-cost carrier.  With its “Save more, fly more” slogan, VietJetAir aims to make air transport accessible to all Vietnamese and foreign tourists including low-income earners through affordable and flexible prices, the VietJet Aviation Joint Stock [...]
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November 19, 2011
The Vietnamese government said it has allowed national carrier Vietnam Airlines to equitize, but said the state will retain more than half of shares in the firm. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh told the Transport Ministry in a directive signed on Tuesday to draft a detailed plan for the airline’s equitization for government [...]
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November 16, 2011
An Indochina Airlines airplane. The company’s general director Ha Dung has been banned from going abroad due to the company’s US$1.3 million debt to a local bank. A songwriter who owns the first private airline to run flights in Vietnam has been prohibited from leaving the country because his beleaguered company owes more than US$1.3 [...]
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October 30, 2011
A Qantas plane is seen grounded among smaller aircrafts at Perth international airport October 29, 2011. Qantas Airways sparred with unions at a second labor tribunal on Sunday after Australia’s prime minister called for an end to the industrial dispute that grounded the airline’s entire fleet, stranding tens of thousands of passengers around the world. [...]
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September 27, 2011
 Vietnam Airlines is considering entering Asia’s booming low-cost aviation sector with a new offshoot, while aiming to build its home base into a major entry point for Indochina, its chief says. The state-owned airline is confronted with “growing pressure” from Asia’s budget operators, president and CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told AFP in an [...]
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June 22, 2011
Air France has allowed clients to fly directly from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City since November 2010 Air France announced that it will increase Ho Chi Minh City-Paris services to five times per week this October. The airline now offers three flights per week on the route, every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Air France [...]
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May 22, 2011
Le Minh Khuong is the coach of the national taekwondo team. Vietnam’s national taekwondo team coach Le Minh Khuong says he will protest a decision by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to fine him for disrupting a Vietnam Airlines flight last month. Le Minh Khuong, 50, refused to sign the finding of CAAV’s [...]
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May 5, 2011
National carrier Vietnam Airlines representative said Wednesday its plane bound for Hanoi was struck by lightning at an airport in France last month. The airline told the press the VN534 flight was scheduled to leave the Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport for Hanoi at 2:10 pm on April 24. As the over layer of the [...]
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December 7, 2010
Lost: Ha Dung, a popular music composer who founded Indochina Airlines, "has disappeared", VnExpress says. The government will withdraw the business license granted to financially-troubled Indochina Airlines this month, local newswire VnExpress reported Saturday. The Civil Aviation Administration and the Ministry of Transport have agreed to let the private carrier "die", the newswire said, quoting an unidentified official. In [...]
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