Japan airlines launches direct Hanoi-Tokyo route

The first direct flight between Hanoi and Tokyo is scheduled to lift off on March 30, via All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan.

The inaugural flight of the newly established daily route departs from Japan’s Haneda airport at 8:45 and lands in Hanoi at 11:55, while the return flight leaves Noi Bai international airport at 14:00 and arrives at Haneda at 21:5.

ANA offers a discount on return tickets from Hanoi to Tokyo, Osaka and Fukouka (US$650, excluding tax and surcharge) tickets booked between March 10 and March 24, 2014 and traveling from May 7-31, 2014.

ANA Vietnam Director Ryoichi Fujisaki said the upcoming Hanoi-Tokyo direct air route has been in gestation since in 2001 following the airlines successful opening of direct flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Tokyo.

Initially, ANA will use a Boeing 767 with 214 seats (35 business class and 179 popular), he said.

“From June 2014, the airline will use a Boeing 787 with more comforts”, Ryoichi Fujisaki elaborated.

Last year, ANA carried 75,000 Vietnamese passengers and 10 million visitors from other countries to Japan. The Japanese government is expected to welcome 20 million international visitors in 2020, and the Hanoi-Tokyo route aims to help realize this goal, he concluded.

Since its establishment in December 1952, ANA has become one of the world’s leading airliners catering to 50 Japanese cities and 32 big cities globally. With a total fleet of 238, ANA conducts 808 domestic and over 1,000 international flights every week.