Prague (VNA) – Vietnam Airlines, the nationalflag carrier of Vietnam, opened a general sales agent in Prague, the CzechRepublic, on December 14, a step to prepare for opening a direct route fromHanoi to Prague in the near future.

At the opening ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassadorto the Czech Republic Truong Manh Son said he hopes the inauguration of this agentwill promote tourism cooperation between the two countries.

Nguyen Quoc Phuong, Director of VietnamAirlines’ office in Europe, said his firm served more than 20 millionpassengers in 2016. In 2015, it put into use Boeing 787-9 and Airbus A350-900airplanes, which are new-generation aircraft, for the routes of Hanoi-Paris,Hanoi-London, and Hanoi-Frankfurt. The carrier has also provided four-starservices to serve passengers at its best.

Phuong said the opening of the agent in theCzech Republic realises Vietnam Airlines’ efforts to survey the market and carryout promotion activities in service of the launching of a direct route betweenHanoi and Prague when everything is ready.

Pavel Dubovy, who is the agent’s representative, told the Vietnam News Agencythat a lot of Czech tourists are interested in Vietnam. Additionally, VietnamAirlines carries passengers not only from Europe to Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh Citybut also to other localities, as well as Laos and Cambodia. The inauguration ofthe sales agent in the Czech Republic is worth to be done.-VNA