Just noticed the Pacific Airlines office in Tainan City. Vietnamese airline company offers flights to/from Taiwan. Reasonable rates but we have never heard of them.

What are they like? Are the safe? I am assuming they are a low cost, no frills type of operation. I'm I correct?

Might be the most convienent flight plan for a quick holiday for us.

I am in Vietnam right now and have used Pacific Airlines for two of my intra-Vietnam segments. Pacific is great. I would not describe them as "low cost, no frills;" I would describe them as exactly like flying a United or any other A319 flight in the U.S. Highly recommended and cheap -- my segments were ~ $45 each.

Enjoy,
SEA2BA

True, but planes are quite a bit older. For what you pay I think they are reasonable, but I still think they deserve their 2-star rating on Skytrax (www.airlinequality.com). I flew them from HAN-SGN and definitely beats taking the train.

I flew Pacific this past summer HAN-DAD, on a 737-400.

No problems with them; it seemed like your basic no-frills budget carrier.

Pacific is fine. Internal flight prices are pretty much pegged to VNA prices. This is to ensure a "fair market" !

VN Airlines has a controlling stake. A VNA insider told me that the policy was to keep Pacific as it is - so that it creates the illusion of competition - but never allow it to threaten the nation's flag carrier. She thinks if they are eventually forced to allow competition on internal routes from outside operators they'll wind up Pacific. EVA has pushed in the past - they had plans for an additional service SGN/TPE stopping in HAN, but were refused. Twice since then they've started a HAN/TPE service only to withdraw it.

No problems with Pacific as far as I can see. One perk was that on the SGN/HAN run, the fare included bus transfer (or bus pickup going back). But we're talking about those little minibuses crammed full...