VPBank– Vietnam Airlines’ stable financial partner

Vietnam airlines Golden Lotus Plus Program and Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) signed a cooperation agreement on issuing a new co-branded card: Vietnam Airlines-VPBank Platinum MasterCard.

VPBank Card

The new product officially is launched on April 16, 2012. Under this cooperation effort, Golden Lotus Plus Program (GLP) members will accumulate miles when using by the co-branded card for goods and services and can also exchange the Prosperity points accumulated in their VPBank accounts into GLP miles. Details are as follows: GLP members will accumulate one GLP mile when spending 50,000 VND inside Vietnam and 25, 000 VN outside Vietnam.

GLP members can exchange 10 Prosperity points for one GLP mile.

The exchange program has been effective since June 2012.

You can access Vietnam Airlines news for more information.

Vietnam Air tips: Take advantage of airlines’ services

Many airlines may have a plenty of incentives and additional services, which passengers should know to take advantage of. Here Vietnam airlines introduces you some general information of them.

The common kinds of airlines’ incentives may include:

- Transfer to the airport for free (Pacific Airlines) or provide preferential prices (Vietnam Airlines).

- Allow customers to carry excess baggage (for students).

- The promotional ticket program in conjunction with hotels and tour services.

Vietnam Airlines service

Vietnam Airlines catering service

The additional services may include:

- Particular services to book the seats on the plane.

- Catering on aircrafts free of charge, except in the case of cheap airlines

- Wheelchair services and priorities for disabled people, the elderly.

- Special services for children.

- Guidance for passengers encountering with problems on flight such as procedures, airport transfers, language barriers.

- Hotel booking services at the airport while waiting in the duration of transition in case of long journeys.

The best advice of Vietnam Airlines is to thoroughly learn about services as well as specific terms to ensure your interests.

Vietnam Airlines advice for parents’ carsick children

Vietnam airlines realizes that once going on holiday with families by cars or trains, many children get carsickness. Not a few babies feel afraid of cars or trains when even not get into them. Then they can feel very tired and boring during the vacation and get nothing but sickness after these trips. Hence, Vietnam Airlines offers several useful tips for such parents.

Vietnam Airlines advice for parents’ carsick children

Vietnam Airlines tips for carsick children

You should give your baby a snack or a light meal before the trip Of course, this will cause you to stop several times take your baby to the toilet. But for those who want to travel without carsickness, it is a good idea. You just need to make sure that the foods and drinks do not have too much sugar or caffeine.

Remember, leave books and toys at home. If you let your children focus on the screen, comic books or watching movies, video ... they all can increase the feeling of motion sickness. You had better encourage them to look out or look towards the horizontal line.

Additionally, you should lower the window glass to let the wind flow into the cars or trains. Wind helps nausea disappear. You should try to help the kids focus on the breezes and watch the scenery outside, which will help them quickly forget the feeling of carsick.

Last but not least, you should choose appropriate sickness drugs for children. You should also consult your pediatrician before giving your baby if necessary cases. These drugs often release sickness feeling and cause sleepy. And for a long trip, this would be a good idea for your baby. You would rather prepare some pillows and blankets to give your children comfortable feeling and good sleeping on car.

For more information, please visit Vietnam Airlines news.

Adapt to a new time zone with Vietnam Airlines

Sometimes, time zone differences may make your travel to a foreign country unpleasant. Solutions of Vietnam airlines for you to deal with this problem are really simple.

Adapt to a new time zon

Adapt to a new time zone with Vietnam Airlines

1. You should be ready to adapt to the lands of other time zone by adjusting your hours of daily activities earlier or later than that at present for 1 week prior to your trip.

2. In about four days before the trip, you must remember to eat less fat, salt, coffee, sugar as well as eat more fruits and vegetables. Having food rich of protein at breakfast and dinner will easily cause indigestion or make you have trouble sleeping when arriving at a new place. One study showed that the human body will better adapt to a new environment when flying to the West instead of the East.

3. Reset your clock to match the destination’s time as soon as you board the plane and then try to live in new time zone. For example, if it is very late at night at the destination, you should try to sleep as soon as possible.

4. Wearing comfortable clothes on the aircraft is a useful tip. Clothes too thick or too tight may make it hard for you to have a good sleep.

5. Do not drink coffee or alcohol during the flight. It will make you dehydrated and tired. Instead of that, you ought to drink mineral water or pure water.

6. Walking around at least once after two hours. It will improve circulation of the blood and reduce muscle stiffness.

7. Remember to wear sunglasses during the last hour of the overnight flight and several hours after getting out of the plane. Researchers have found that it will help people adjust their body by gradually changing the light pattern.

Vietnam Airlines hopes that all our passengers will feel pleasant on our flights.

Vietnam Airlines tips: Some notes on cheap tickets

Here are some features of cheap tickets given by Vietnam airlines:

Cheap tickets

E- Tickets

- Most cheap tickets often exclude taxes, baggage. Therefore, you should carefully calculate before booking.

- Cheap tickets often exclude eating, and are often late, so you remember to fully energize before flight.

- In spite of safety standard insurance, cheap tickets are usually not comfortable and convenient, so you should also prepare yourself psychologically that you are not "VIP customers" on the plane.

- If you have relatives working in aviation industry, keep good and regular contact with them. They will tell you about promotions, as well as some way to purchase the fastest cheap tickets.

You can visit Vietnam Airlines tips to have more information.

Experience for hunting Vietnam Airlines’ cheap tickets

A cheap ticket would be a good start for the upcoming summer vacation you. Please join Vietnam airlines for a few experiences of "hunting" cheap tickets.

Beside a computer with high-speed internet connection, you should have an international payment card. If it is a domestic airline, in addition to paying with local ATM card, after completing the registration procedures of flight, you can print the receipt, come directly to the box office, agents to pay, receive code. But with foreign airlines, paying with international credit cards sometimes is required before you get a cheap airfare.

Payment Card

International Payment Card

So, do not miss the good opportunity just because your wallet does not have a visa debit. The method of making this card is quite easy. Most local banks have this card. However, according to the experience of the tourists, there are a few banks having good international payment systems, fast payment time, reasonable payment fee such as Eximbank, ACB, Techcombank, Vietcombank , etc.

You can visit Vietnam Airlines news to have more information.

Cheap flights of Vietnam Airlines

Summer is knocking at the door. What are you planning for your summer vacation? To get the lowest fares and stay up to date on travel news and promotions, let’s follow Vietnam airlines’ advices.

Vietnam Airlines

Vietnam Airlines

1. How can I find the cheapest fares?

Once you plan a vacation, just visit Vietnam Airlines’ website and explore all of the possible fares available for your desired travel dates. Vietnam Airlines regularly offers promotions like the Summer Promotion in March and the Fall Promotion each August. Please take notes these times to plan your vacation!

Flights departing in the early mornings and late at night usually have the lowest fares. To get the best fares and avoid crowds, you should also try to fly mid-week instead of on the weekends. During the week you can also save money on rooms and services at your destination.

2. How can I get cheapest fares for a big group?

At present, Vietnam Airlines allows you to reserve seats for a maximum 6 passengers per one booking. The number of low fare tickets is limited. If you are going to book for a family of 4, start by finding a ticket for one instead of all four. Depending on the availability of seats and fares, you can continue to book for others. If the number of seats available at that fare is less than 9, a note will appear in our search section. Please take note of these figures since they are left to obtain our cheapest fares.

3. Once I have found the cheapest tickets, how do I keep them?

Vietnam Airlines does not guarantee that these cheap offers will still be there upon your next search. The only way to be sure to get the ticket is to book it. We advise you to have an international VISA or master card or an ATM card from one of Vietnam Airlines’ 9 associated banks (i.e. Vietcombank, Techcombank, BIDV, Dong A Bank, Vietinbank, Eximbank, ACB, VIB, MB…) in hand. Don’t forget to register your bank’s online payment service.

Vietnam Airlines look forward to welcoming you on our flights this summer. We wish you a wonderful summer holiday!