Article from BTNews 19 DECEMBER 2016
Vietnam Airlines celebrates
Special celebrations have been held in London this month to mark the fifth anniversary of the launch of direct flights between Hanoi and the UK by Vietnam Airlines (VN).
The main ceremony was attended by Vietnam’s deputy minister of transport Nguyen Van Cong, Vietnamese Embassy minister counsellor Do Hoang Minh, Vietnam-UK Network chairman Ben Chapman and representatives of the airline’s partners.
Le Thanh Dung, chief representative of Vietnam Airlines in the UK, said the carrier had grown rapidly over the past five years and is currently operating daily flights to London using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
The airline’s first flight to the UK landed at Gatwick on 9 November 2011 before operations were moved to Heathrow in 2015.
On 1 December 2015, Vietnam Airlines began using the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for its UK flights, becoming the first carrier in south-east Asia to fly directly to Europe on this new type of aircraft.
Vietnam Airlines has increased the frequency of flights from four to five or six a week and now has daily flights between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and London, helping to facilitate trade, cultural exchanges and tourism between the two countries.
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