Two more Hanoi-HCM City flights

17:03' 07/11/2007 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – Low-cost carrier Pacific Airlines has announced it received a Boeing 737-400 on November 16 and it will supply two more flights between Hanoi and HCM City, raising the total to nine/day. The new flights between Hanoi and HCM City are coded BL794 and BL800, starting at 8.30 and 13.30, and the corresponding flights coded BL795 and BL801, taking off at 11 and 14h everyday. The airline said it would cancel some flights in the next several days for routine aircraft maintenance in cooperation with engineers of Boeing. However, passengers on these flights will be arranged on substitutes. Meanwhile, the government has asked the Ministry of Defence for 14.3ha of land to expand the parking lot of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City. Tan Son Nhat serves around two-thirds of the total foreign visitors travelling by air to and from Vietnam. This year, the airport will welcome around 11million passengers. It will be expanded to serve 15-17 million passengers by 2010. Viet Nam Net