Air Mekong sells fares online

Vietnam’s private airline Air Mekong has loaded airfares on its website for domestic flights departing from October, with a one-way fare starting from 400,000 (US$20.5).

Truong Thanh Vu, director of comrnercial service at Air Mekong, said the VND400,OOO was for a single trip from HCM City to Can Dao, Phu Quoc, Pleiku and Buon Ma Thuot from October 9.

Other fare levels are 800,000 dong and 1.2 million dong for longer-haul services. Initially, guests can book Air Mekong’s fares on its website at www.airmekong.vn and its ticketing office at the Syrena building in Hanoi and a ticketing counter at Tan Son Nhat Airport.

They are allowed to use Visa, MasterCard, JCB and Amex credit cards, ATM debit cards and cash to pay online or at ticketing counters.

Air Mekong will use four Bombardier CRJ-900s configured with 10 Deluxe- class and 80 Economy-class seats for 2 daily flights. The carrier will increase its daily frequencies to 34 flights on 10 air routes in November, a time when demand for domestic air travel begins to pick up. It will offer passengers various options to fly between HCM City and Hanoi via a stopover in Pleiku, Buon Ma Thuot or Da Lat in the Central Highlands region.

Air Mekong has an initial chartered capital of 200 billion dong (more than $10.2 million), the lowest level required for a local airline to conduct domestic flights. It is the sale operational private airline since Indochina Airlines was grounded in late October. Other passenger carriers currently in service are Vietnam Airlines and its subsidiary Vietnam Air Service Co (Vasco) and Jetstar Pacific. – Saigon Times

Tags: Air Mekong, Vietnam aviation, Vietnam aviation industry, Vietnam aviation market

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