Vietnam Airlines operates Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner on HCMC-Seoul route
The first Vietnam Airlines flight using Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner arrived in Seoul from Ho Chi Minh City on October 2, as part the carrier’s effort to serve increasing travel demand between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK).
Vietnam Airlines' Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (Photo: vietnamairlines.com)
Seoul (VNA) – The first Vietnam Airlines flightusing Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner arrived in Seoul from Ho Chi Minh City onOctober 2, as part the carrier’s effort to serve increasing travel demandbetween Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK).
The aircraft landed at the Incheon International Airportwith 264 passengers onboard.
Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner is the newest and longest member ofthe super-efficient 787 family; it can carry a maximum of 367 people.
Besides the HCM City – Seoul route, Vietnam Airlines hasalso used the plane on the HCM City – Busan route, with one flight per day foreach route.
The carrier is among five Asian airlines that run both ofthe two most advanced Boeing aircraft – 787-9 and 787-10.
According to official statistics, in the first half of 2019,more than 2 million RoK holiday makers visited Vietnam, an annual increase of21.3 percent. Meanwhile, the number of Vietnamese tourists to the RoK reached277,000, up 31.2 percent on-year./.
The number of tourists from the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam has grown impressively in the recent years, making the RoK the second biggest tourism market of Vietnam, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
A conference to promote Vietnamese tourism was held in Seoul in June 26 as an opening activity for the Vietnam Tourism-Culture Festival in the Republic of Korea (RoK).
The Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) in Vietnam will organise a Vietnam- Republic of Korea (RoK) Culture and Tourism Festival in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of September.
The tourism agency of Seoul held an event in Hanoi on September 3 to promote the capital city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnamese travellers, with the participation of Korean firms and 130 travel and aviation enterprises of Vietnam.
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The first and only direct service connecting the two countries at the moment is set to operate three times per week using the modern wide-body Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
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VNAT Director General Nguyen Trung Khanh called visa a golden ticket to pulling in crowds, but he is clear that it needs coordinated efforts across multiple sectors to keep the momentum going in this fast-moving global travel scene.
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During the first five months, China continued to be Vietnam's largest source market of tourists, followed by the RoK, China’s Taiwan, the US, and Japan.
Vietnam Airlines' Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner (Photo: vietnamairlines.com) 
