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Old Apr 21, 2011, 7:36 pm
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dsquared37
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Originally Posted by soorox
In my experiences while flying with VN, there are actually 2 sides to VN;

1. Short Haul flights to SE Asia & Southern China/Hong Kong
2. Medium Haul to Long Haul flights to Australia, Europe, Japan, Sth Korea

All the flights in let's say 'Zone 1' that I have taken with them had been with nice, polite and friendly crew, who would even talk to you in a polite manner with exceptional service levels, with clean aircrafts, while their 'Zone 2' counterparts are very pretty much the opposite, no smiling, and very rude behavior to all pax even in J, although the aircraft varies.
I've flown VN within Vietnam, business class, on several occasions recently. I found my experiences correlate very well with yours.

Originally Posted by DaddyRabbit
But this is what one often gets when flying a third world airline. There are reasons that people avoid EgyptAir, AirSudan, and YemanAir.
Not sure lumping VN in with those carriers is legit.
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