The new service, scheduled to conduct two weekly flights on
Wednesdays and Fridays, is expected to promote bilateral trade
cooperation and enable more Vietnamese tourists to visit the Central
Asia country.
The new route is especially significant considering
Vietnam’s accelerated non-tariff negotiations with the Customs Union of
Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Air
Astana has selected Vietway Aviation Company as its official agent in
Vietnam, in charge of ticket sales, promotion, and market development.
The airlines is offering a 30 percent discount to passengers who book tickets before January 1, 2013
The company will operate two flights per week, with aircraft stopping over for transit in Bangkok, Thailand.
A
representative of Air Astana said that the opening of the route marked
the good relations between the two countries and the direct flights
would help promote bilateral trade as well as tourism.
Last month
Emirates Airline launched direct flights between HCM City and Dubai,
with one flight per week on this new route, The Kazakhstan Newsline
wrote.
Air Astana officially opened direct flights from Ho Chi
Minh City to Kazakhstan, with a frequency of 2 times per week on
Wednesday and Friday, by aircraft Boeing 757 (over 160 seats).
Time
fly from Ho Chi Minh City Ho Almaty (Kazakhstan) about 7 hours of
flight, namely, departing from Ho Chi Minh City at 1 pm and to Almaty at
7: 50 pm
Air Astana has nearly 60 destinations worldwide, is
rated as the best airline of Kazakhstan and the only 4-star airline in
Eastern Europe and the countries of the CIS community.
Theresa
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