Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines

Viet Glam: Vietnam Airlines looks to turn heads with shiny new planes and sexy new routes

Vietnam Airlines

Viet Glam: Vietnam Airlines looks to turn heads with shiny new planes and sexy new routes

October 2015
1 min read
Seth Kaplan

Issue Overview

Long overlooked in a region with legions of more established carriers, Vietnam Airlines is now grabbing the airline industry’s attention. This fall, it became just the second airline worldwide to fly state-of-the-art A350s, a plane it’s now flying to Paris, and a plane that underscores its ambition to modernize and globalize. The A350 inauguration, moreover, follows receipt this summer of the airline’s first B787-9, a similarly cutting-edge machine that Vietnam Airlines quickly deployed to London.