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Bangkok Airways Connects Bangkok and Danang, Vietnam
15th Mar 2016
Effective 25 May this year, Bangkok Airways will commence a new service between Bangkok and Danang in Vietnam, the regional airline confirmed on Monday.
Thailand's "Boutique Airline" previously announced 16 May as the start of its service between the Thailand capital and the central Vietnamese city, but later on postponed the start of the operations to 25 May.
Bangkok Airways is set to fly four times per week on the route, operating on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Flights are scheduled to depart on those days from Bangkok Airport at 11:00 in the morning and will arrive an hour and a half later at Danang International Airport (at 12:35 PM. The return flight will take off from Danang an hour later (at 13:35 PM) and will land on the runway in Bangkok at 15:15 PM.
The airline also revealed that it will use Airbus A319 on the route. The plane has a 144 Economy seat capacity.
Other Airlines didn’t have a Good Experience with Danang, but Maybe Bangkok Airways will
Bangkok Airways is taking a bit of a leap of fate here when it comes to operating flights to and from Danang, but hopes that the rising interest in Thailand as a shipping destination for Vietnamese will turn things in its favor.
In fact, according to BizzHub, in 2015, only 700 tourists from Thailand chose to fly to Danang.
Still, other airline’s tried to tackle this route and mostly have mostly failed at it. For instance, PB Air, which is now defunct, flew to and from Danang in the early 2000s for around two years, but eventually had to cancel the service as it wasn’t producing much financial benefit and the company was losing money on it.
Recently, Viettravel offered direct charter flights between Danang and Bangkok, selling package tours to passengers from Vietnam.
Bangkok Airways Undeterred When it comes to Flying to Danang
With these facts in mind, Bangkok Airways will have a hard time justifying a four time weekly service to Danang.
However, the airline seems undeterred and quite determined to make the best out of it and was promoting Danang to its codeshare partner Air Berlin and its European tour operator partners at the ITB in Berlin last week.
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