Review of Vietnam Airlines flight from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in Economy

Hey all!
This is the next part of my summer trip in Vietnam
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Before flight
I wanted to try Vietnam AIrlines, since it's one of unusual airline to fly in the region. I booked the flight to Ho Chi Minh on VN259 which operated with their newest A350-900. I got very cheap ticket for this 2 hours flight, only paid VND 1.5 million (around USD 60) all in per pax. Who doesn't want to fly with new aircraft with such great deals?
It is usual that Vietnam AIrlines do some aircraft changes. Some time after I bought the ticket, they changed the equipment for my flight to old A332, and I felt so dissapointed. But, several weeks before my flight, I checked it again, and they swap the equipmnent again to newer B787 Dreamliner. Yeah!
The day
After 3 days exploring Hanoi and Halong Bay, it's the time for leaving to Ho Chi MInh CIty. I took Uber from my hotel in Old Quarter to Noi Bai AIrport, and it costs me only VND 90.000
I arrived at the airport around 2.30 PM, and directly printed the boarding pass. Still have 2,5 hours before the flight, I decided to explore the domestic terminal, adn did some plane spotting
This Vietnam Airlines A321 were preparing for its flight to Nha Trang that afternoon

This Dreamliner already finished her job from Ho Chi Minh City, and being pushed to the hangar

Then, I moved to other spot, and met this beauty preparing for VN 253 to Ho Chi Minh. I still hope to fly with A359 asap :)

After that, I went back and waiting at the gate. Not long after, boarding call started, and all of passengers made a line to board the aircraft. I felt so excited, still guess which aircraft will operate my flight, and this is the answer

Yeah, VN-A866 would fly me to Ho Chi Minh City that evening. I was lucky enough to fly one of Vietnam Airlines B787 with 2 class only.
Entering the cabin, a male, who was the supervisor (purser) of the flight, greet me and checked my boarding pass. I went to my seat directly. Look at this VietJet, being pushback for domestic sector in the evening.

The door closed around 5.30 PM, and the plane started the taxiing. The captain introduced himself, and gave some information regarding to our route and weather. We took off from Hanoi Capital at 5.45 PM, almost one hour delay, because there were many passengers, so the crews need more time to arrange them all.
Byeeee Hanoi! See you next time!

I tried to explore the IFE systems. It was quite responsive screen, but the programs weren't updated enough. It contains mainly Vietnamese film and shows, with several choices of Western films and music.

I was looking for the headset, but I couldn't find it, so I called the crew but nobody came to my seat. Not long after, the crews were ready to serve the dinner. There were only 4 crews (3 stewardesses and the purser ) serving all economy class!. Wow, what a rare moment where the purser serves economy class.
The crews arrived at my row and the purser asked "What do you want to eat, Sir? Today we have fish with rice and pork noodle." My mom chose the pork, and I chose the other one. After they gave the meal, I asked about the headset, and he explained that they didn't distributed the headset because it was only short haul flight, so the entertainment just an "open entertainment" (Still don't kno what is the meaning of open entertainment till today), and we must bring our headset if we want to use the IFE. Come on VN, how can you don't distribute the headsets on this 2 hrs flight? Even other airlines in the region give full meal and entertainment for flights which take above 1.5 hour.
Here are the meals. Although the presentation were decent, the pork noodles had very delicious taste!

After the crews served the meals, they had a tea run before clear the trays. I tried to take photos of cabin condition after the meal

When I took some photos in the lavatory, the captain announced that the plane were passing bad weather near Ho Chi Minh City, and seta belt sign were turned on. I went back to my seat as soon, and not long after we passed the bad weather, the captain announced that we would be landing shortly. So sad that the flight would end fastly :(
The landing gears touched the wet runway at 7.15 PM, only 15 minutes after sechedule. Great job for the cockpit crews!
The Dreamliner parked at the gate with other Dreamliner and A330-200, and we disembarked. I went to my hotel with bus 109 to Pham Ngu Lao area (23/9 Park Bus Terminal), and it costs only VND 30.000 per person.
The end.
Thanks for read this report!