Vietnam Airlines serves cocktails

Cocktail is a mixed drink is blended from wines and fruit juices and considered a popular drink of numerous people. Also, it is a diverse beverage in menu of bars in the world. Drinking cocktail is not only to refresh, but also to enjoy the taste, color, decorative art. Therefore, Vietnam Air has selected cocktails designed by itself to serve passengers on long-haul flights. It also contributes to the introduction and promotion of special fruits of Vietnam to international friends.

starter meal on vietnam airlines

With professional restaurants and bars, concocting dozens of cocktails is not difficult. However, international flights serve many passengers with diversity of nationalities, culture, habits and preferences. Feelings of passengers on color, taste and smell on aircraft is different on the ground. Restrictions on alcohol in the long-haul flights, conditions of preparation and ancillary components to serve fast but high quality... are the criteria that need to be considered carefully.

From this reality, Mr. Vo Tan Si spent much effort to search and mix different ingredients in order to find the most suitable beverage, satisfying the needs of majority customers on Vietnam Air flight. Under the skillful hands and creative mind of Mr. Vo Tan Si, three cocktails named Red River, Saigon Sunlight and Hello Vietnam was born to serve bring the passengers of Vietnamairlines. Vietnam Air passengers now can enjoy the delicious taste of the cocktails bearing the international mark and flavor of beautiful tropical country. These cocktails are also considered its proprietary products.

In Red River, connoisseurs will recognize the characteristic of Campari wine, combined with orange juice and Dry Martini. This is an ideal appetizer before enjoying exquisite cuisine. Saigon Sunlight with gentle smoky taste of Whisky when served along lemon juice, syrup and Sprite will become an attractive beverage that can be used at any time of the flight. The cocktail named Hello Vietnam is made from Campari wine, orange juice and Sprite, used for all the time before or after a meal.

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These drinks attract passengers not only by delicious taste but also by the beautiful and eye-catching color. When poured into a crystal glass that Vietnamese Airlines put its own production, the cup of cocktail becomes more attractive and delicious. This is one of 4-star services that Vietnam Airlines is looking forward to meet the demand of passengers. Along with the product systems on the ground and on aircraft increasingly perfect, the drinks and meals carefully invested are contributing to confirm quality service of Vietnam Airline.

According to representative of Vietnam air lines, in the future, passengers on long-haul flights, especially Business Class will be served more cocktails. All are to meet the increasing diverse demands of customers.

Vietnam Airlines upgrades service quality

Located in overall program upgrade of service quality to 4-star standard, catering services on flights of Vietnam Airlines are strong innovated to bring their passengers interesting experience. Compared to the past, the list of VietnamAirline services of meals is richer and more diverse; menu on each route is designed separately between outbound and inbound, changed from time to time and every season to meet the demand of passengers.

lunch on board vietnam airlines

Vietnam Airline representative said catering services on its flights according to 4-star standard service has changed comprehensively from meals to drinks. Facilities are redesigned modern (Economy Class) and according to standard of restaurant and hotel (Vietnam Airlines BusinessClass with large plates, standard wineglass and cups). Also, menu is selected and fully renewed.

Business Class passengers can enjoy Signature Dish like traditional beef noodle served on original flights in Vietnam and main course directly presented on large dish by flight attendants for return flight from British, France, Germany, Australia and Japan. In addition, drinks are also added such as juice fruit, 3 special cocktails of VietnamAir Lines (Hello Vietnam, Red River and Saigon Sunlight) made by specialist Vo Tan Si, Chairman of Saigon Bartenders Association and member of World Bartenders Association. There are 6 types of tea (green tea, black tea and herbal tea) and three types of coffee (black, cappuccino and espresso), brand-name pure water and carbonated mineral water.

meal on board vietnam airlines flight

Signature Dish is one of hot main courses served on the Class C of the preferred routes. From September 2015, Business Class passengers on VietnamAir flight from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Heathrow (London, UK) has been serving the beef noodle, one of three main courses to choose from in breakfast.

This is a traditional dish that Vietnamairlines introduces to the program upgrade of catering services on flights following the 4-star standards. Following the route to the UK, beef noodle is expected to serve on the flights from Vietnam to France, Germany, Australia and Japan, after the aircrafts of B787- 9 and A350-900 are put into operation on these routes.

From the freshest ingredients, carefully selected and prepared by experienced chefs of Noi Bai Catering Services Joint-Stock Company and MTV Catering Services Limited Company, the aromatic and hot bowls of beef noodle will bring passengers delicious taste of the famous noodle shops in Hanoi. Moreover, earlier in September, Noi Bai Catering Services Joint Stock Company (NCS) - a subsidiary of Vietnamese Airlines received award the best catering services company in 2014 (The best caterer) awarded by Japan Airlines. This is the second time (2013 - 2014) NCS receives this award. 

Vietnam Airlines serves cocktails on long haul flights

Cocktail is a mixed drink is blended from wines and fruit juices and considered a popular drink of numerous people. Also, it is a diverse beverage in menu of bars in the world. Drinking cocktail is not only to refresh, but also to enjoy the taste, color, decorative art. Therefore, Vietnam Air has selected cocktails designed by itself to serve passengers on long-haul flights. It also contributes to the introduction and promotion of special fruits of Vietnam to international friends.

starter meal on vietnam airlines

With professional restaurants and bars, concocting dozens of cocktails is not difficult. However, international flights serve many passengers with diversity of nationalities, culture, habits and preferences. Feelings of passengers on color, taste and smell on aircraft is different on the ground. Restrictions on alcohol in the long-haul flights, conditions of preparation and ancillary components to serve fast but high quality... are the criteria that need to be considered carefully.

From this reality, Mr. Vo Tan Si spent much effort to search and mix different ingredients in order to find the most suitable beverage, satisfying the needs of majority customers on VietnamAir flight. Under the skillful hands and creative mind of Mr. Vo Tan Si, three cocktails named Red River, Saigon Sunlight and Hello Vietnam was born to serve bring the passengers of Vietnam airlines. Vietnam Air passengers now can enjoy the delicious taste of the cocktails bearing the international mark and flavor of beautiful tropical country. These cocktails are also considered its proprietary products.

In Red River, connoisseurs will recognize the characteristic of Campari wine, combined with orange juice and Dry Martini. This is an ideal appetizer before enjoying exquisite cuisine. Saigon Sunlight with gentle smoky taste of Whisky when served along lemon juice, syrup and Sprite will become an attractive beverage that can be used at any time of the flight. The cocktail named Hello Vietnam is made from Campari wine, orange juice and Sprite, used for all the time before or after a meal.

vietnam airlines drinks

These drinks attract passengers not only by delicious taste but also by the beautiful and eye-catching color. When poured into a crystal glass that Vietnamese Airlines put its own production, the cup of cocktail becomes more attractive and delicious. This is one of 4-star services that Vietnam Airlines is looking forward to meet the demand of passengers. Along with the product systems on the ground and on aircraft increasingly perfect, the drinks and meals carefully invested are contributing to confirm quality service of Vietnam Airline.

According to representative of Vietnamair lines, in the future, passengers on long-haul flights, especially Business Class will be served more cocktails. All are to meet the increasing diverse demands of customers.

Vietnam Airlines tips to avoid lost baggage

No one wants to lose baggage at Vietnam airports as well as at other airports in the world. What should passengers do in this case? Please refer to following Vietnam airlines tips to mitigate this situation. Baggage from check-in counter to arrival airport has to go through many stages such as security screening, boarding, transferring from the plane to the trucks and from conveyor to passengers. Airport staff is entirely responsible for these stages. Though there are hundreds of cameras with an operation center, the theft and lost items in the suitcases still happens and this makes many passengers extremely worried.

vietnam airlines tips

When detecting the outside baggage is intact but inside is missing some items, passengers should immediately report lost and found of Vietnam Airlines at the airport on irregularities of baggage such as requesting to weight baggage again, checking baggage after receiving, declaring the characteristics of lost items... Then, the airline and security agent will make all their effort to solve the problem such as finding or compensating baggage to passengers.

In the case of lost baggage, if passengers cannot prove the actual value of the baggage, the airlines (including Vietnamese Airlines) will adopt a common compensation for passengers. The liability limits of Vietnam Airlines checked baggage is USD 20 per kg or does not exceed USD 400 per passenger (or local currency equivalent) for cabin baggage. In addition, for flights on European route, the compensation of Vietnam Airways for damaged baggage does not exceed 1000SDR/ passenger. In case of both cabin baggage and check baggage of a passenger are damaged for various reasons, a compensation is made according to the actual damage but not exceeding the limits of Vietnam Airline liability for that passenger (SDR 1000 or local currency equivalent)

However, the condition of carriage of the airlines states that for international flights, electronic devices (laptop, camera, camcorder, music player, MP3 players, mobile phone...), fragile and perishable items, money, jewelry, keys, passport, ID, business document, etc. cannot be accepted to carry as checked baggage.

baggages - vietnam airlines tips

So Vietnam Air suggests passengers:

- Should use hard suitcases with lock rather normal zipper. If want to get something inside the evildoers will have to break the lock, then the suitcase cannot be closed again.

- If use a normal suitcase, passenger should wrap it. With this way, it will take more time if evildoers want to steal items in his suitcase.

- For checked baggage, passenger also should wrap and cover the entire the baggage by tape along with his name, address and phone number.  

Source: http://www.vietnamairlines.travel/

Vietnam Airlines official re-exploits Pleiku Airport

According to Vietnam AirLines, it officially re-operates flights to/ from Pleiku (Gia Lai) after this airport was reopened. As soon as Pleiku Airport completed the upgrading project and reopened sooner compared to planned, in just a short time, Vietnam airlines has trying to arrange resources to quickly exploit the first flights aiming to meet the traveling needs of passengers.

Vietnam Airlines re-exploits Pleiku Airport

The project "Upgrading and extending runways, taxiways and airport apron of Pleiku Airport" was started on 28th September 2014 with a total investment of 945 billion, the goal of increasing mining capacity up to 1 million passengers per year. Under the plan, from March 15th to October 25th, the terminal and runways was upgraded, so Pleiku Airport was temporarily closed. During the closure, passengers traveling by air on the two provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum have to move by car via two airports Phu Cat (Binh Dinh) and Buon Ma Thuot (Dak Lak).

vietnam airline at pleiku airport

The first flight to Pleiku Airport number VN1424 from Tan Son Nhat Airport (Ho Chi Minh City) at 15:05 carrying 178 passengers landed at Pleiku Airport at 16:10. After that, the flight VN 1425 departed from Pleiku to Ho Chi Minh City at 17:09 the same day. Flights were operated by Airbus A321 aircraft. According to Vietnam Airways representative, the airline will operate one flight per day by A321 aircraft from the 1st to 14th of September and 3 flights per day by A321 and ATR72 aircrafts from September 15th to October 24th.

From September 5th, Vietnam Airlines will exploit the first flight on the route Hanoi - Pleiku on the occasion of reopening Pleiku Airport. Specifically, from the 6th to 14th of September, the carrier will exploit 04 flights / week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday; 01 flights/ day by A321 from 15^th September to 24^th October. The exploitation plan after October 24th will be deployed to the winter schedule.

On the occasion of re-exploiting those flights, Vietnam Airlines launches attractive incentives like Pleiku - Ho Chi Minh City: 399,000 VND one-way, Hanoi - Pleiku: 799,000 VND one way. The rates above are effective for tickets issued and departed in the period from the 1st to 30th of September. Passengers can book tickets to Pleiku at website Vietnam Airlines or its agents including http://www.vietnamairlines.travel/.

Vietnam Airlines orders Airbus latest aircrafts

According to the report of Airbus on April 23rd, Vietnam Airlines has become the first airline in Asia to use the latest advanced type of aircraft of this company named A350 XWB. The first A350 XWB will land at Vietnam airport in mid 2015.

Mr. Alan Pardoe, Chief Marketing Officer of Airbus has said that there are 3 versions of A350 XWB: A350-800 with carriage of 270 passengers in there-classes design, A350-900 with carriage of 314 passengers and A350-1000 with carriage of 350 ones. Thanks to the application of advanced technologies, the new plane type of Airbus reduces operating cost up to 20% per passenger seat, uses fuel more efficiently than same planes types on the market, especially Boeing 777-200 ER. In addition, A350 has outstanding advantages of wide seat, noise reduction, and air filter application on planes. As planned, Vietnam Airlines will have fourteen A350-900 aircrafts, of which ten units are directly ordered from Airbus and the rest 4 units are hired. This is really good news of Vietnam Airlines. With this project, Vietnam Airlines fleet expects to improve its services and reduce its cost of fuel with the aim of lowering price for passengers.

A350-800 of Vietnam Airlines in future - Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons

Also at the press conference in Hanoi, it was stated that Airbus, the leading aircraft manufacturer in the world had chose Nikkiso Vietnam Company to produce composite vertical bars of wings and Sharklet’s armor plates for 320s under sub-contract with main supplier Sharklet – the Korean Air Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD). Sharklet is a wing tip device which has been introduced in 2009 by Airbus. It is designed to enhance the payload-range performance of the A320 Family. Sharklets, a retrofit option, are expected to reduce fuel burn of up to 4% over longer sectors, which may correspond to annual CO2 reduction of around 700 tones per aircraft. With 4,280 aircrafts of A320 type which will be delivered to customers all over the world, this contract is expected to ensure a long-term work for Nikkiso Vietnam.
Mr. Jean Francois Laval, Executive Vice President of Airbus in Asia said that the company chose Vietnam to produce aircraft’s components because the aviation market of Vietnam was growing fast, the cost of production was low and Airbus received favorable supports from Vietnamese Government. The company is also researching to expand the scale of production and increase the number of factories in Vietnam in the future.

A350-800 on its flight - Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons

Earlier this year, another airline in Vietnam named Vietjet Air currently operates ten A320 Airbus aircrafts and has ordered over 100 A320 aircrafts including firm orders for 63 A320s, plus 30 purchase rights and more 7 lease aircrafts. Jetstar Pacific Airlines, with two main shareholders: Vietnam Airlines and Qantas Group, is being operated totally by Airbus aircrafts, with 6 A320s which are serving for domestic routes at present.