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Jetstar Pacific increase flights in Da Nang-Taipei route

Jetstar Pacific will increase flights between the central city of Da Nang and Taipei, Taiwan (China) to five round trips per week to meet rising travelling demand, announced the budget carrier on October 26.
Jetstar Pacific increase flights in Da Nang-Taipei route ảnh 1Jetstar Pacific will increase flights between the central city of Da Nang and Taipei, Taiwan (China) to five round trips per week to meet rising travelling demand (Photo: Jetstar Pacific)
Hanoi (VNA) – Jetstar Pacific will increase flights between the centralcity of Da Nang and Taipei, Taiwan (China) to five round trips per week to meetrising travelling demand, announced the budget carrier on October 26.

The newschedule will start from October 31 and the round trips will be operated onTuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Each leg will take two hoursand 35 minutes.

Arepresentative of the airline said tickets of the additional flights are onsale, starting from only 280,000 VND (about 12 USD) per leg. The prices excludetax and fee. Passengers can purchase tickets at the website www.jetstar.com,the hotline 19001550 and ticket agents nationwide.

JetstarPacific is the first low-cost carrier to launch Da Nang-Taipei route inDecember 2016, with three flights a week. To date, the airline has carriednearly 100,000 passengers between the two destinations.

Theflight increase is expected to bolster tourism development and createfavourable conditions for investors to travel to Vietnam’s central region.

Inaddition to the Da Nang-Taipei route, Jetstar Pacific and Jetstar Group operateinternational routes connecting the city with Hong Kong (China), Osaka (Japan)and Singapore.

Jetstar Pacific,whose two major shareholders are Vietnam Airlines and Australia-based QantasGroup, is the first budget airline in Vietnam. It operates flights between 16destinations in Vietnam and 180 others in 18 countries and territories aroundthe world.

Statisticsof the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan (China) show that more than 610,000 Taiwanesetourists travelled to Vietnam in 2017. Meanwhile, there were over 380,000Vietnamese visitors coming Taiwan in the period, a surge of 94.94 percent from ayear earlier.

Moreover,the number of visitors joining the exchange programme between Vietnam andTaiwan is projected to reach 1.5 million in 2018.

In thefirst half of this year, Da Nang welcomed more than 1.6 million foreignholidaymakers, up 47.1 percent year-on-year.–VNA
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