Vienam Airlines A330-200's to Australia

[Steve Jones]

VN are also running 2 A330 charters into ADL soon. I'm sure someone will have dates and times.

[Brandon Giacomin]

November 21 and December 5

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Vietnam Airlines from 19DEC10 to 11JAN11 is adding 6th weekly each on Ho Chi Minh – Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh – Sydney service for Christmas and New Year season.
Schedule below:

Ho Chi Minh – Melbourne
VN1781 SGN2100 – 0925+1MEL 332 7
VN1780 MEL1125 – 1555SGN 332 1
Ho Chi Minh – Sydney
VN1783 SGN2215 – 1100+1SYD 777 1
VN1782 SYD1300 – 1745SGN 777 2

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

Sorry for dragging this topic back up, but I thought I would keep vietnam news in one thread.

Good news is that Vietnam will fly A330's to Sydney after being postponed early last year.

As per 09MAR11 GDS timetable display, Vietnam Airlines starting 27MAR11 is adjusting service to Australia.
From 27MAR11, Ho Chi Minh – Sydney route, sees Boeing 777-200ER aircraft replaced by Airbus A330-200. Frequency-wise will increase from 5 to 6 weekly, and further increases to Daily starting 13JUN11. 5 weekly Ho Chi Minh – Melbourne service, meanwhile, will increase from 5 weekly (Day x47 from SGN) to Daily from 13JUN11.
Schedule:

Ho Chi Minh – Melbourne
VN781 SGN2105 – 0835+1MEL 330 x47
VN780 MEL1035 – 1620SGN 330 x15
Daily from 13JUN11 (14JUN11 from MEL)

Ho Chi Minh – Sydney
VN783 SGN2105 – 0915+1SYD 330 x3
VN782 SYD1015 – 1600SGN 330 x4
Daily service from 13JUN11 (14JUN11 from SYD)

Source: Airline Route

[Stefan Perkas]

From oct 30 2011 Vietnam are changing flight numbers to Sydney,

Ho Chi Minh-Sydney changes from VN783 to VN773
Sydney-Ho Chi Minh changes from VN782 to VN772

[Peter Agatsiotis]

Noticed that yesterday and today B777's have been used. Higher loads maybe?

[Joe Frampton]

On topic but slightly off topic... sitting in HCMC Airport right now, waiting for our 3 hour delayed sector to Da Nang with Vietnam Airlines... The domestic flights out of HCMC seem to be in some deal of awry today, constant queues and negotiations involving cash going on at the Vietnam Airlines standby counter... But they are giving us free lunch, what a bonus. Ah, I love travelling in South East Asia!

[Stefan Perkas]

Afternoon all,

Another B787 carrier to Sydney and Melbourne...

The current long-haul network also includes four weekly flights to Moscow, which has been reduced over the last year due to the Russian financial crisis, and daily flights to both Melbourne and Sydney. Moscow is served from both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh with two weekly flights each while Melbourne and Sydney are currently only served from Ho Chi Minh.

The Australia and Moscow routes will eventually transition to new widebody aircraft along with several medium-haul regional routes (including Osaka and Tokyo) which are now served with A330s. So far Hanoi-Seoul, which will see one of two daily flights operated with the A350 from Oct-2015, is the only route other than Western Europe or Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh scheduled to be operated with the A350 or 787.

Vietnam Airlines is also planning to begin serving Sydney from Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh-Sydney is expected to transition to the 787 in 2016. Vietnam Airlines is also planning to begin serving Sydney from Hanoi, which will likely be launched in 1H2016 and initially be operated with four weekly A330 frequencies.

Ho Chi Minh-Melbourne is expected to transition to the 787-9 after Ho Chi Minh-Sydney. Hanoi-Melbourne is also in the Vietnam Airlines long-term network plan but is not expected to be launched in the near to medium term.

Vietnam Airlines relies almost entirely on local point to point traffic for its Australia services, with most demand coming from Australia in particular the Vietnamese communities living in Melbourne and Sydney. But it aims to gradually build up sixth freedom traffic as it expands in Australia, offering connections within Asia as well as on the highly competitive kangaroo route to Europe.

The carrier’s capacity to Australia has been flat over the last several years with fewer frequencies offered during off peak months in response to lower local demand.

The prospectus, which was published in Sep-2014, said the expansion in Australia would “take advantage of the favourable geographical position of Ho Chi Minh city to offer services to the sixth freedom traffic right markets from Europe and North East Asia to Australia”.

But Vietnam Airlines could decide to forgo new destinations in Australia and instead focus on growing its existing two points. Over the last year it has studied the Australian market and determined that for now there is limited demand from cities other than Melbourne and Sydney.

Read More: http://centreforaviation.com/analysi...or-next-243589

[Stefan Perkas]

Morning all,

Vietnam Airlines starting 30NOV15 is adjusting operational aircraft for Ho Chi Minh – Sydney market, which sees Boeing 777-200ER aircraft operating this route. This daily service is currently operated by Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Planned schedule as follow.

VN773 SGN2110 – 0950+1SYD 777 D
VN772 SYD1150 – 1635SGN 777 D

Info from: http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/17/vn-syd-dec15/

[Stefan Perkas]

Morning all,

Vietnam Airlines in this week’s schedule update has adjusted planned operation to Australia for Northern winter 2016/17 season. Starting 29OCT16, service to Melbourne and Sydney will both be served by Boeing 787-9 on daily basis.

Ho Chi Minh City – Melbourne Boeing 787-9 replaces A330-200
VN781 SGN2110 – 0925+1MEL 787 D
VN780 MEL1125 – 1540SGN 787 D

Ho Chi Minh City – Sydney Boeing 787-9 replaces 777-200ER
VN773 SGN2130 – 0950+1SYD 787 D
VN772 SYD1150 – 1615SGN 787 D

Info from: http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/10/vn-australia-w16/