Vietnam Airlines offers big discounts for international routes

The special prices will be applied for flights departing from October 15 to December 31, 2010 and from April 1 to May 31, 2011.

The large-scale promotion programme with nearly 90,000 tickets to be sold is to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The prices of return tickets on flights from Vietnam to other Southeast Asian countries will see the highest cut of 85% to VND 950,000, followed by flights to Japan and the Republic of Korea with a discount of 82% to VND 5.8 million.

The discounts of 80%, 50% and 40% will be applied for flights to Northeast Asian nations, Australia and Europe respectively.

Vietnam Airlines operates 75 routes to 20 domestic sites and 26 international destinations with more than 290 flights per day.