In Vietnam, almost provinces own an airport, which support citizens in traveling easily by air.
There are three internal airlines operating in Vietnam; Vietnam Airlines, Jestar Pacific and Vietjet Air. They supply many routes around Vietnam with two main hubs, Tan Son Nhat airport (Ho Chi Minh City) and Noi Bai airport (Hanoi).
They all provide their owned online booking service, so it is very convenient for you to choose a suitable ticket. There are usually promotions from airlines with very low ticket price, even free-ticket (without tax). If you follow up booking online websites, you have many chances to get a ticket at a good price. In some lucky cases, you can get a free-ticket (without tax). Therefore; the time you book your tickets decides the price of your ticket.
Following are some general tips for booking a domestic flight in Vietnam:
– There are some common websites, from which you can book ticket and pay online by Credit Card or Visa Card: These websites often update good price tickets and provide good services. You can also access to website owed by airlines, listed above in the airline section.
– Vietnam domestic flights sometimes are delayed or changed, which makes you feel uncomfortable and takes you a lot of time, even affects to your working plan sometimes.
Following some differences between the three airlines, based on which you can choose for you the best ticket for your journey.
1. Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines is the flag carrier of Vietnam which is established as a state-owned. Vietnam Airlines is a Skyteam alliance member. This is an oldest airline in Vietnam with a long time experience in air traveling.
Compare to the others, Vietnam Airlines has a lot of flights to all domestic destinations. The airline supply full service, including meal in-flight and 20kgs allowance baggage and maybe it is the best in quality and timeliness. But, generally its ticket is more expensive. The airline offers tickets expanding from Super Saver – the cheapest up to Business Flex. Within one tier, there are many different times of day so you can have a suitable flight at reasonable price. Super Saver fares are not often available so the fare is the Saver. The Vietnam Airlines is the only, providing Business Class ticket and luxury lounge for Business class passengers.
It also seems that flights of this airline are delayed slightly lower than the others.
2. Jetstar Pacific
Jetstar Pacific is an established budget operator in Vietnam and often offers cheaper tickets than those of Vietnam Airlines. In some routes, tickets of this airline is the cheapest. Jetstar also serves many domestic routes regularly so that it is more and more popular in air travelling.
With this airline, you have to pay attention to some terms of service and timeliness. Firstly, the airline does not serve meal in-flight and the fare is not including 20kgs check-in baggage. Secondly, the time of flights easily changed, early or lately, and you do not change tickets in these cases. If you have a strict working schedule, you should consider choosing this airline.
Some popular flights of this airline are Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi – Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh city – Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh city – Phu Yen, Ho Chi Minh city – Vinh, Hanoi – Danang, Hanoi – Can Tho, Hanoi – Buon Me Thuot, Hanoi – Dalat, Hanoi – Phu Quoc, Cantho – Phu Quoc and Danang – Nha Trang. These flights are almost fly daily, so it is very convenient for you to get a ticket.
You can buy tickets of the airlines via agents or online.
3. Vietjet Air
Vietjet is also a low-cost airline and its term in service and timeliness are similar to those of Jetstar airlines, such as fare including 7kgs hand baggage, not including meal in-flight, 20 kgs allowance baggage. This airline offers often the cheapest tickets for the same routes.
Vietjet are increasing a number of flights day by day and this airline is a good choice to save money.
If you booking online, you can tick Find the cheapest fare to find a calendar for the month and the cheapest of each day, so you can good deals for your travelling. You should book ticket in advance as you can to get promotions. In some case, you can get a ticket for all internal routes just about 20$ including tax.
Like other budget airlines, flight attendants buy food, drink and souvenir with friendly attitude.
