Direct flights resume between India and Vietnam, the new routes added.

The six new routes will connect Hanoi-Mumbai, Ho Chi Minh City-Mumbai and the southern resort island of Phu Quoc in Vietnam with New Delhi and Mumbai ===> Refer for Vietnam Tours from India

International Flights Latest News Today: As the international flight operations have started soon after the COVID cases went down, Vietjet Air on Wednesday announced that it will be operating six flights between India and Vietnam in April 29

The airline in a statement said the flights on the Delhi-Hanoi route and Delhi-Ho Chi Minh City route — which were operating before the COVID-19 pandemic — will resume on April 29 and April 30, respectively

Apart from this, the airline also announced operation of new flights on the Mumbai-Hanoi route and Mumbai-Ho Chi Minh City route from June 3 and June 4, with a frequency of four weekly return flights and three weekly return flights respectively

The airline also informed that the flights operations on Mumbai-Phu Quoc and New Delhi-Phu Quoc route will start from September 9, with four round trips per week while the New Delhi – Phu Quoc will operate with a frequency of three round trips per week.

The announcement from the airline comes after India resumed scheduled international passenger flights from March 27 after a two-year-long hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.

The announcement from the airline comes after India resumed scheduled international passenger flights from March 27 after a two-year-long hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.

During the lockdown period, only limited international passenger flights were operating to and from India under air bubble arrangements with specific countries. However, India had no air bubble agreement with Vietnam so far.

Giving details to news agency PTI, Vietjet Managing Director Dinh Viet Phuong said that with flights of just over five hours per leg, and a convenient flight schedule on offer throughout the week, Vietjet’s renewed and increased connectivity between Vietnam and India will create many more trade and tourism opportunities between the two countries, helping to boost the economies of both.

Battered by the COVID pandemic, the airline industry is slowly coming back to normalcy and the resumption of normal overseas flights is providing a fillip to the sector.

The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital is witnessing a significant jump in the first week of April after the resumption of regular international operations.

On March 8, the civil aviation ministry had announced that regular overseas flights will resume from March 27 amid a decline in coronavirus cases. In this regard the Central government had also revised the COVID guidelines for international flight operations, including the removal of the requirement to keep three seats vacant on overseas flights for medical emergencies. Besides, the requirement for the crew for having a complete PPE kit has been done away with.

Souce: india.com