Gatwick wins Vietnam Airlines

Journey time between London and Vietnam will be significantly reduced from next December when Vietnam Airlines introduces non-stop flights between Gatwick and Hanoi and Saigon.  A passage which was previously over 18hrs will be reduced to just 11hrs 30mins.  Modern Vietnam is today an industrialised western looking country keen to overlook its French colonial past and virtually ignore its Chinese communist heritage.

Vietnam Airlines will fly a two-class Boeing 777 on the route offering connections to a comprehensive number of destinations throughout Indochina including Siem Reap (Cambodia), Luang Prabang (Laos), and Yangon (Burma).

Far East experts Bamboo Travel says the new operation will bring a boom to emerging areas that seldom appear in brochures, typically Ba Be Lake in Northwest Vietnam, Khammouane Province in Southern Laos and Mondulkiri in Eastern Cambodia.  Vietnam is fast-becoming one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Asia-Pacific region with just over 5m tourists visiting the country in 2010. www.gatwickairport.com www.vietnamairlines.com

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