Vietnam Airlines Launching San Francisco Flights
Jan 12, 2022, 8:05 pm
#16
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According to Vietnamese news media, the government has authorized the resume of international commercial flights on Jan 1 2022 for the following destinations: Beijing/Guangzhou, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, San Francisco/Los Angeles.
Vietnam Airlines had their pseudo commercial flights to SFO since late November. Both Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways have been looking at Los Angeles because of the large Vietnamese-American population in Southern California.
At this moment, there are still COVD restrictions, such as 3-day quarantine, for fully vaccinated (including booster) travelers to Vietnam.
Vietnam Airlines had their pseudo commercial flights to SFO since late November. Both Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways have been looking at Los Angeles because of the large Vietnamese-American population in Southern California.
At this moment, there are still COVD restrictions, such as 3-day quarantine, for fully vaccinated (including booster) travelers to Vietnam.
Jan 14, 2022, 4:56 pm
#17
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The rules evolve with time, but as far as I know, at this moment it is still 3 days of quarantines for all international vaccinated travelers arriving to Vietnam. Travelers in this category can stay quarantine at their home or hotel of their choice. It used to be either specially approved hotels or quarantine camps.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel/...e-4414921.html
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel/...e-4414921.html
Jan 15, 2022, 2:46 pm
#18
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To anyone here who regularly travels to SGN, asked by a fellow VN-FOTSG, would you prefer this VNA route to be SJC-SGN for the connections and utilize the SkyTeam network, instead? I think SJC never formally received hub status from DL...and I suppose so many years were spent into making this SFO route viable.
I won't be picky, just curious to hear anyone else's thoughts on the matter.
Until AS resumes service to YEG or AC restores their YEG-SFO direct, there's little reason for me to visit family via SFO on this cool new flight, but I'm excited for that day to come!
I won't be picky, just curious to hear anyone else's thoughts on the matter.
Until AS resumes service to YEG or AC restores their YEG-SFO direct, there's little reason for me to visit family via SFO on this cool new flight, but I'm excited for that day to come!
Jan 15, 2022, 3:25 pm
#19
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SJC probably is bypassed in terms of prestige and visibility by SFO. It’s like how ANA flies to SJC and China Airlines flies to Ontario, but each route only happened after ANA to SFO and China Airlines to LAX for many years. Not to mention connecting pax from Asia expecting to fly to SFO and perhaps not knowing about SJC
Sep 11, 2022, 10:06 am
#20
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Does anyone have any recent experiences with flying Vietnam Airlines from San Francisco? Is the service good, reliable, etc.? As far as I can tell, the flight from SFO is the only way to get to Saigon nonstop from the U.S.
This would be much preferable to me rather than transiting somewhere like Tokyo, Seoul, etc. but curious if anyone has experience with this flight. Most likely we would fly Business...
This would be much preferable to me rather than transiting somewhere like Tokyo, Seoul, etc. but curious if anyone has experience with this flight. Most likely we would fly Business...
Sep 11, 2022, 11:04 pm
#22
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