Specifically, this December, Vietnam Airlines will open promotional tickets for new routes connecting to Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Macau. For flights to China, from now until December 31, the airline will sell round-trip tickets including taxes and fees for the Ho Chi Minh City/Hanoi - Shenzhen route from only 145 USD/person. Also during this period until March 31, 2020, the Da Nang - Chengdu route will cost 100 USD/way, including taxes and fees.
On December 15, Vietnam Airlines will open a new route connecting Hanoi - Macau with a frequency of one flight per day. The airline also offers round-trip tickets including taxes and fees for 157 USD from now until December 15, with departure times from December 15, 2019 to January 15, 2020.
Not only that, Vietnam Airlines is also selling promotional round-trip tickets for groups of two starting at 199 USD, excluding taxes and fees. Specifically, flights from Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang to Tokyo and Osaka cost 344 USD/person (including taxes and fees). Flights from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to Fukuoka and Nagoya cost 394 USD/person (including taxes and fees). The program is valid until December 8, for flights from February 10 to June 10, 2020.
Some international flights from Vietnam.
Vietjet has also just announced a new route from Ho Chi Minh City to Pattaya (Thailand). Flights will be operated regularly from December 23 with a frequency of one flight per day. On this occasion, the airline is selling 100,000 promotional tickets priced at 0 VND (excluding taxes and fees) until December 5 for all routes that Vietjet is operating in Thailand, including the route from Taichung to Bangkok and domestic routes in Thailand. Flight time is from December 23, 2019 to October 24, 2020.
At the end of November, Bamboo Airways launched regular direct flights to South Korea including Da Nang - Seoul (from October 17) and Cam Ranh - Seoul (from November 15). The Hanoi - Seoul route is expected to operate from December 2020. Later this year, the airline will operate a direct flight from Hanoi to Melbourne.
Destinations with reasonable prices for the New Year holiday are Da Lat, where the Flower Festival is about to take place, and Da Nang. The round-trip Hanoi - Da Lat has the lowest price of about 2.2 million VND (including taxes and fees); the round-trip Ho Chi Minh City - Da Lat has a price of 1.6 million VND (including taxes and fees). For the round-trip Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi - Da Nang, the lowest ticket price at the end of December is 1.7 million VND, while the price on normal days is about more than 2 million VND. Tet tickets for the Ho Chi Minh City - Hanoi, Hai Phong, Thanh Hoa, Vinh routes that airlines are selling at this time are more than 3 million VND/way (including taxes and fees).
Domestic airports and airlines are always overloaded during Lunar New Year.
During the Lunar New Year from January 9 to February 8, 2020 (ie December 15 to January 15), Vietnam Airlines plans to add 190,000 seats (nearly 1,000 flights) on domestic routes. Jetstar Pacific will also add nearly 40,000 seats (more than 220 domestic flights). Along with the Tet ticket sales in September, this domestic increase by Vietnam Airlines Group (including Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific, VASCO) has increased the total number of seats during Tet to 2.23 million, equivalent to nearly 12,000 flights.
Also during Tet, Bamboo Airways added nearly 700,000 seats compared to the same period (equivalent to 3,600 flights), providing a total of nearly 1 million seats. The additional flights focused mainly on high-demand routes between Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh City, Vinh - Ho Chi Minh City with Da Nang, Vinh, Thanh Hoa...
