Huge Development: 4 Airways Now Function 12 Australia-Vietnam Routes

Australia to Vietnam is a giant market. Final yr, over 600,000 individuals flew, whether or not continuous or through someplace. Not surprisingly, the pandemic meant site visitors was significantly decrease than in 2019, when there have been simply over one million passengers. In 2022, there have been three continuous carriers, then a document. Now there are 4: Bamboo Airways, Jetstar, VietJet, and Vietnam Airways.

4 airways, 5 airport pairs

The market is especially pushed by Vietnamese visiting mates and family, Vietnamese college students, and Australian vacationers visiting the nice Southeast Asia nation.

There are 5 airport pairs this southern winter season (March Twenty sixth-October twenty eighth), as proven on the next map and summarized within the desk later within the article.

When airways are added, there are 12 nonstop routes. These embody two launched this month: VietJet again to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis from Melbourne (April ninth) and Sydney (April thirteenth). It marked the service’s entry into the Australian market.

The desk

Vietnam Airways: Hanoi-Melbourne

Cirium informs that, when mixed, all airways have 1,054 continuous departures from Australia to Vietnam this southern winter. Of those, Vietnam Airways has about half (49%), then VietJet (20%; it solely started serving Australia in 2023), Jetstar (17%), and Bamboo (15%).

Vietnam Airways’ closely dominant place is helped by a fourth route: Hanoi to Melbourne. Beginning on June 1st, it can run twice weekly utilizing the A350-900. It’s scheduled as follows, with all occasions native:

• Hanoi-Melbourne: VN779, 09:05-21:20
• Melbourne-Hanoi: VN780, 23:30-06:05+1

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Till 2022, Melbourne didn’t have Hanoi flights. But in 2019, it had about 80,000 roundtrip oblique passengers. It was the biggest unserved market from Australia to Vietnam. Greater than that, Melbourne was the biggest unserved market worldwide from Hanoi. It has gone from zero airways to 2. Will Bamboo stay?

What about Perth?

Given how lengthy it took for Brisbane to safe Vietnam flights, it’s unclear if/when Perth will. Nonetheless, in 2019, Perth-Ho Chi Minh Metropolis had about 53,000 roundtrip passengers, a fairly first rate quantity in itself (despite the fact that Brisbane had roughly 73,000). Ho Chi Minh Metropolis accounted for two-thirds of all Perth-Vietnam site visitors.

Given latest development, Perth-Ho Chi Minh is now the nation pair’s largest unserved market. One think about its favor is that it’s 3,004 miles (4,835 km), 1,070 miles (1,721 km) shorter than from Brisbane. Perth lately welcomed Philippine Airways from Manila. Would possibly Vietnam occur someday?

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