Vietjet will launch four international routes between December and February, linking the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang with Osaka and Jakarta, and Hanoi with Colombo and the Maldives.
Da Nang–Osaka Kansai and Da Nang–Jakarta both start on 20 December with four flights a week. The Osaka service operates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and the Jakarta route on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Vietjet will fly 230-seat Airbus A321s to Osaka, according to CAPA, competing with Vietnam Airlines on the route.
The airline announced the Da Nang routes on 4 November at the signing of a 2026–2030 cooperation agreement with the Da Nang People’s Committee, aimed at bringing more Japanese and Indonesian visitors through the late-2026 peak season and into 2027. Nguyen Thi Anh Thi, vice chairwoman of the committee, named India, Indonesia, Japan and Australia as potential source markets. Under Politburo Resolution No 26, issued in August, Da Nang is one of Vietnam’s three main tourism growth centres to 2030.
From 9 February 2027, Vietjet will add three weekly flights from Hanoi to Colombo and on to the Maldives, TTG Asia reported. The routes follow a Ho Chi Minh City–Colombo–Malé service due to start on 5 December, three times a week on A320s, after Vietjet began flying Ho Chi Minh City–Colombo in August.
Vietjet operates 138 weekly flights between Vietnam and Japan, serving six Japanese cities.
Vietnam Airlines is also expanding into South Asia. It launched four weekly flights between Hanoi and Ahmedabad on 3 November, its fifth Indian destination and its first in Gujarat. India remains a focus for European carriers too: SWISS will put the Airbus A350 on Zurich–Mumbai from 15 December, after adding a second daily Zurich–Delhi flight.
