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

Hello,

Welcome to a new report between Phu Quoc Island and Saigon, Viêt Nam. After many bus journeys, take the plane is an undeniable advantage : we do in 1hour what in bus we do in a day. Prices were correct ( 2 000 000 DNG for a multi destination PQC->SGN->DAD then a few days later DAD->HAN)


The routing

The flight

as the flight was supposed to leave at 10:40am, we decided to go to te airport nearby 8:45 (a way too early). The airport building is brand new:

It reminds me Pôle Caraïbes (Guadeloupe) but in colder and calmer

The vegetation of the island is equatorial

There are many people inside, which many Saigon and Ha Noi bound flights

The airport is small but offers many services

10minutes later, we go through customs  (even if it's a domestic flight). It took 15minutes although there were a lot of people.

We have to go down of 1floor to go to the gates

There is nobody at our gate for the moment

There is no wi-fi at the airport, which is a shame.

A320 Bamboo and  321 Vietjet behind

Still empty here

Our flight is not even displayed

Our plane landed at 10:35am from Ha Noi, his landing has been followed by a delay announcement (boarding at 11:10 due to the late arrival of the aircraft)

Then I noticed that it was an A321Neo, whereas it was written A321. I'm happy to see that, that'll my first time in a NEO

beautiful

Gated. Engines are differents from -ceo version .

Today docs : BP is in cardboard

Boarding  started at 11:15am.

fuselage shot

I'm seated, just beside the reactor. The welcome was not exceptional, not apologize for the delay, for an hour late….

Phu Quoc internnational airport

Push-back at 11:35am.  VietJet and VietNam Airlines (A321) both bound to Ha Noi

Take-off

Roate. Good bye Phu Quoc

We head south-west and quickly reached the coastline

The sea is rough

We are still taking altitude over Thailand Gulf

Then we did a left turn , heading  Ho Chi Minh Ville

The  engine  has a beautiful color with the sea in the background

The winglet is impressive

We can see Duond Dong airport, where we  from

We fly-over the inland of Phu Quoc, which is a quite big island

it becomes more cloudy

15minutes later we reached the continent over Ha Tien, at the Cambodian border. We just did  in 15minutes what it takes 2hour of  speed  boat:)

Wi-fi is proposed in flight

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some informations about  the flight

Movies  part is… poor

Safety card which still the same as the A321

We're August 1st and  it still is july magazin.

Then catering is served : water or coke, that's all. I chose coke, served in a cardbroad glasse

Moreover, glasses were half empty, or  half  full!

cheers

carpet is dirty

PSU is brandnew, with IFE

We reach Mekong Delta, which means that Saigon isn't far

such a beautiful country

Descent sarted a few minutes after

geovision on ife

We entered  Ho Chi Minh Ville after 30minutes of  flight

Just southern of the cbd

Downtown of Saigon, the economic capital of Viet Nam

Right turn

some clouds

More wet here

then a left turn, we're waiting for landing

We cross some thunder clouds, there are strong turbulences

We come back above the city

Still descending

We fly-over contryside again

Right turn, then we enter a thunder cloud, it's rock'n'roll

Again, we can now re-see the CBD

Saigon is a very polluted city

The tower lookslike Burj Khalifa

We cross a last time the Mekong, at least, a part of it

Tan Son Nhat is located on Saigon city-center

There is queue
for take-off

A350 Asiana

touchdown at 12:25pm

A321 Vietnam Airlines taking-off

We cross the take-off runway

VietJet

Some liveries at the International Terminal. We continue to the Domestic

773 Eva Air

MD-11 Lufthansa Cargo

A330 Cathay Pacific

Many A321 (the only medium-haul aircraft of VN)

Domestic Terminal

It looks like we're in the city, but on a plane

The buses arrive immediately

Then everyone stands up in chaos, welcome in Viêt Nam!

the cockpit

After that we did a quick bus journey, but it was…special. Usually, bus drivers respect the "road code" (idk how to say that) but here, our driver crossed all the white lane, crossing the way of many aircraft while they were moving etc…

Then we go inside TSN for our transfer to Da Nang. Thank you for reading, sorry for the mistakes I could make.

flight radar 24

the flight

Approach on Ho Chi Minh Ville / Saigon / TSN