Jetstar Asia increases flights to Danang

Low-cost airline Jetstar Asia will add a Friday evening service to Danang from Singapore, starting Friday, to help travelers maximize their weekend in the beautiful Vietnamese coastal city.

With the additional service, the Singapore-based carrier will operate three weekly flights to Danang on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday, the carrier said Thursday.

Jetstar Asia resumed its Singapore - Danang flights on April 10, 2022 after two-year suspension because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The carrier launched this service in November 2015, and had transported more than 200,000 passengers between the two destinations until March 2020, when the pandemic hit.

Vietnam welcomed roughly 172,900 international tourists in May, a 70.6% rise over April and 12.8 times higher than the same month last year, according to General Statistics Office.

The number of visitors during the first five months of 2022 increased 4.5 times year-on-year. However, this is still 95% lower than the corresponding pre-pandemic period of 2019. A total 87.8% of foreign visitors arrived by air, up 6.3 times over the same period in 2021.

As Covid-19 has been put under control, international routes began to recover swiftly, and Vietnamese airlines have resumed international routes on a regular basis, with plans to increase frequency. Vietnam lifted health declaration requirements on April 27 and subsequently abolished its Covid-19 testing requirement for people entering the country on May 15.