JAL starts Vietnam flights

JAL starts Vietnam flights

TOKYO (DPA): Japan's largest carrier, Japan Airlines (JAL), said on Thursday it started flying two weekly non-stop flights from Tokyo's Narita Airport to Ho Chi Minh City, in response to the increase of Japanese business and tourist travel to Vietnam.

The new service is operated as a code share with Vietnam Airlines. It was the first direct flight service from and to Narita for the two airlines.

JAL launched service to Vietnam from Osaka's Kansai International Airport in November 1994 and began a code share service on this route with Vietnam Airlines in April 1996.