VietJet vs. Vietnam Airlines

VietJet is normally a bit cheaper if you have no luggage, but it is not as cheap as they advertise once you add in the charges for seating, using a credit card, fees and taxes, etc.  I recently costed a Da Nang-HCMC trip with 30kgs of luggage.  Although VJ initially looked cheaper, the difference ended up only being around VND 100,000.  I chose VJ to save the 100k and, as has happened 5 of 6 times flying with VJ, they first changed the flight time and then were delayed another 1.5 hours on top of that. (Unfortunately though VN Air flights are also frequently delayed/cancelled so there is not much in it.)

I travel 3 or 4 times each year to Phu Quoc with VietjetAir, never had any problem, nor delay. Maybe I was lucky?

richiv wrote:

VietJet is normally a bit cheaper if you have no luggage, but it is not as cheap as they advertise once you add in the charges for seating, using a credit card, fees and taxes, etc.  I recently costed a Da Nang-HCMC trip with 30kgs of luggage.  Although VJ initially looked cheaper, the difference ended up only being around VND 100,000.  I chose VJ to save the 100k and, as has happened 5 of 6 times flying with VJ, they first changed the flight time and then were delayed another 1.5 hours on top of that. (Unfortunately though VN Air flights are also frequently delayed/cancelled so there is not much in it.)

He is right. Me too. Everything always has its price.

Vietjet is not a bad airline, certainly friendlier than Vietnam Airlines. Be careful if you make a reservation using the English version of the website. The translation for names is wrong. It will ask for your last name which in Vietnam is their first name. Had that problem once and they wanted to charge me to change it, after 15 minutes arguing that it was their websites problem not mine they relented.

Used to be vietnam airlines staff for years but WOULD never EVER FLY WITH THEM> They treated people like Trash. SO lucky to get out and find the same job in dif. airlines where I have to work harder, but much better treated.

I don't think there is any good alternative when flying in VN.  My wife and I flew Vietjet today from Saigon to Da Nang.  They informed me by email this morning that they were delaying our flight by three hours.  This seems to happen constantly.  I don't know why they bother to publish a schedule; just let the client book either a morning, afternoon, or evening flight instead of even pretending that they will ever adhere to a proper schedule...

I remember once being delayed 9 hrs with vna. They do have delay.

All the time on all the VN airlines...  There is no good alternative when flying domestically.

Only one way to fly here.

jungdeyoga wrote:

I remember once being delayed 9 hrs with vna. They do have delay.

Got stuck in DA Nang for the best part of a day a few years back, had a connecting flight with Jetstar, to HCMC, then to  Darwin, where I had an hour to catch a chartered flight to my mine site, for work for 6 continuous weeks.
3 times that day Jetstar was postponed, then eventually cancelled altogether, we were told we MIGHT be able to get a seat on a VN Airlines flight ,which was to depart in 30 minutes, I managed to get a seat, and already knowing that VN Airlines and Jetstar were affiliated ,  was shocked when they wanted payment , which of course was a lot more expensive, ( once again the wife was glad I couldn't speak Viet ), I arrived in HCMC , with 20 minutes to spare. ( Eventually Jetstar did refund my ticket, but it took a few e-mails and phone calls ).

jimbream wrote:

Only one way to fly here.

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Tahiti sounds nice, Simon, Tahiti please

mark stutley wrote:

jimbream wrote:

Only one way to fly here.

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Tahiti sounds nice, Simon, Tahiti please

Can you speak French, Mark?

bluenz wrote:

mark stutley wrote:

jimbream wrote:

Only one way to fly here.

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Tahiti sounds nice, Simon, Tahiti please

Can you speak French, Mark?

Boudreaux and Thibodeaux were talking one afternoon, and Boudreaux tells Thibodeaux, You know, I tink Im ready for a lil vacation.

But, dis year I wants to do sumting different. De last few year, I took your suggestion bout where to go. Tree year ago you say I should go to Hawaii, an I did an Marie got pregnant.

And las year you tol me to go to Tahiti. Sho nough, Marie got pregnant again.

So Thibodeaux asks Boudreaux, What you gonna do dis year dats different?

Boudreaux says, Dis year, I gonna bring Marie wid me

They never refund online ,vna. They only sent  my friend emails confirming and confirming. Yet nothing . Never do anything via banking here. Cash, call and direct meeting are likely principles surviving here..

I have a friend who works in VietJet. She advised that to avoid potential flight delay, take the morning flights.

VietJetAIr sucks, too many delayed flights.

And let's hope VietJet dont repeat the same incident of landing or arriving at the wrong airport. Can't imagine the miscommunication they have internally.

Does somebody know if Jetstar Pacific has just been sold to an American company?

sambasp wrote:

Does somebody know if Jetstar Pacific has just been sold to an American company?

Not sure how it could be sold, VN Airlines owns 70%.
After reading the article below, who would want to buy it ?

The credibility gap between what Qantas says about its offshore Jetstar investments and their persistent failure to perform widened in Japan and Vietnam today.

Jetstar Japan’s success in hosing even more Qantas dollars against the wind has made it into the general media, in this lucid but restrained report in the Fairfax media.

There is something unsettling about the remorseless pattern of Qantas statements in recent years describing financial losses as ‘progress’. The Fairfax report’s figures show that Jetstar Japan accounted for $55 million of last financial year’s reported Qantas losses of an aggregate $70 million on its investments in Asia based Jetstar franchises in Singapore, Vietnam, Japan and the still born Hong Kong venture.

This means in round terms that Jetstar Japan lost all but $5 million of the $60 million it pumped into the Jetstar Japan venture last year, beside a similar investment by major partner Japan Airlines.

If that is what Qantas means by ‘progress’ it is time for its shareholders to do something about management’s grip on reality, and English. This disaster has been going on for years and despite all of the claims made about ‘progress’ and ‘opportunity’ and ‘potential’, the ventures have one and all been terrible and costly failures, and there is no reason to believe anything has changed, other than the announcement in February that expansion in Jetstar Asia (Singapore) had been paused, in order to ‘grow within its own footprint’.

The misuse of English is almost as troubling as the wasting of money. It means that Qantas is incapable of telling the truth about the Jetstar situation in Asia to its employees and investors, and continues to be in cloud cuckoo land as to its future.

No amount of PR babble speak is going to save Jetstar in Asia, unless it switches tactics and sells all or part of it for as much as possible, Sydney Harbour Bridge included.

Today’s unsettling news about Vietnam comes from an announcement that VietJetAir’s own first Airbus A320 has entered final assembly in Toulouse. VietJetAir is Vietnam’s first privately owned airline. It has been flying for half as long as Jetstar Pacific, also based in Vietnam, and has a leased fleet of 15 A320s in service, more than twice as many single aisle jets as has the Qantas minority owned Vietname Jetstar franchise, currently listed as being seven aircraft.

Jetstar Pacific is 70 percent owned by state held Vietnam Airlines, with Qantas holding the remaining 30 percent.

It has been made to look foolish by VietJetAir, which will soon take delivery of the first of 63 firmly ordered A320s both CEO and NEO versions, with purchase rights for a further 30 and the stated intention of keeping a further seven on lease for a fleet size of 100 possibly as soon as the early 2020s.

Why can’t Qantas get a single Jetstar franchise in Asia right? What is behind its chronic inability to produce sustainable and successful Jetstar operations anywhere in the Asia hemisphere? How much damage has the Jetstar in Asia fetish done to the overall financial performance of the Qantas group, and how does it extricate itself from this mess?

How much more ‘progress’ like this can a flying kangaroo bear?

And that fat short arsed, little Irish Poofter CEO, still got a nice pay rise?????