Vietnam Airlines Reviews
Vietnam Airlines Reviews
Vietnam Airlines (Vietnamese: Hãng Hàng không Quốc gia Việt Nam) is the national carrier of Vietnam. Founded in 1956 under the name Vietnam Civil Aviation, the airline was established as a state-owned enterprise in April 1989. Vietnam Airlines is headquartered in Long Bien District, Hanoi, with hubs at Noi Bai International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport. The airline flies to 52 destinations in 17 countries, excluding codeshared services.
From its inception until the early 1990s, Vietnam Airlines was a minor carrier within the aviation industry as it was hampered by a variety of factors including the socio-economic and political situation of the country. With the government’s normalization of relations with the United States, the airline was able to expand, improve its products and services, and modernize its ageing fleet. In 1996, the Vietnamese government brought together 20 service companies to form Vietnam Airlines Corporation, with the airline itself as the centrepiece. In 2010, the corporation was restructured into a limited liability company and renamed Vietnam Airlines Company Limited. A seven-seat management board, members of which are appointed by the Vietnamese Prime Minister, oversees the company. As passenger transport constitutes its core activity, Vietnam Airlines plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It owns 100% of Vietnam Air Service Company – a regional airline in southern Vietnam, 70% of the low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific Airlines, and 49% of the Cambodian national airline Cambodia Angkor Air. In addition, the corporation earns revenue from airline catering and the maintenance and overhauling of aircraft through a number of its subsidiaries, including Vietnam Airlines Engineering Company and Vietnam Airlines Caterers. The company has also diversified its investments in the aircraft-leasing and airport ground-servicing industries, and is looking to manufacture aircraft components. It controls and operates a cargo division, Vietnam Airlines Cargo. Vietnam Airlines became a member of SkyTeam in June 2010, making it the sole Southeast Asian carrier to have joined that alliance, pending the admission of Garuda Indonesia.It is expected to be restructured and partially privatized by 2015 to help it streamline its services and better compete with other airlines. This would facilitate its long-term development plan that involves the improvement of its products and services, and the expansion of its fleet and flight network, as the airline aspires to become the second-largest full-service carrier in Southeast Asia by 2020. Vietnam Airlines has a network within East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and Oceania. With about 300 daily flights, the airline flies to 21 destinations domestically, and to 28 internationally. In addition, it has codeshare agreements with a number of airlines for other routes, some of which span to North America.
Vietnam Airlines was selected as the sponsoring airline for the beauty pageant as the country’s national airline.
Their boarding pass procedure is a whole lot mess, why? simply because they don’t board from the back to the front. They just tell everyone to line up. it takes a while to get on because its so scattered. Too inconvenient.
Well, at the very least, their flight service was fast. but only because they really don’t want to serve you and it shows. no professionalism. During the first serving they practically just handed you boxes of food into your trays. the second serving was the same with the water bottles. you feel like you’re inconveniencing them just by the mere fact that you are a passenger. Annoying and unprofessional experience I must say.