Vietjet Air is continuous its speedy growth in each the Australian and Indian markets by introducing two new routes from Ho Chi Minh City, each of that are unserved at current.

Commencing on Nov. 21, the LCC will provoke flights between Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN) and Perth Airport (PER). Operating twice per week on Tuesdays and Saturdays, the route establishes the primary nonstop air connection between Vietnam and a metropolis in Western Australia.

The addition of Perth will additional bolster Vietjet’s Australian community, which started with the airline’s inaugural path to the nation in April 2023. Presently, Vietjet operates three flights per week every to Sydney and Melbourne from SGN, alongside two roundtrip flights to Brisbane.

Looking forward, Vietjet has formidable plans to develop its Australian community from December. The service will improve Sydney and Melbourne companies to every day frequencies, whereas Brisbane will function 3X-weekly. The modifications will improve Vietjet’s community between Vietnam and Australia to 38 weekly flights.

Alongside the Perth route, the airline has additionally introduced the launch of service between SGN and Tiruchirappalli, a metropolis in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state. Operations will start on Nov. 2 with three return flights per week.

Data offered by OAG Schedules Analyser reveals that the route would be the sole connection from Tiruchirappalli to Vietnam and can improve Vietjet’s Indian community to 5 locations.

The airline first launched flights to the nation in December 2019, and now connects SGN and Hanoi with Ahmedabad, New Delhi and Mumbai, in addition to linking SGN with the Indian port metropolis of Cochin. In complete, it provides some 14,500 two-way weekly Vietnam-India seats throughout 54 flights.

Vietjet’s growth in India’s market has helped to extend the full variety of passengers touring between Vietnam and India to over 300,000 within the first six months of 2023, almost 5 instances increased than 70,000 passengers recorded in the identical interval final yr. 

In the primary six months of 2023, the service reported revenues of about $1.25 billion, up by 87% year-on-year. Consolidated after-tax revenue was recorded at $16.3 million. The airline says the typical seat utilization price was extra 85%.