The Lam Dong provincial and Can Tho municipal People’s Committees and Vietnam Air Service Company (Vasco) signed a co-operation agreement in Can Tho city on April 23 to open the direct air route linking Can Tho to Lien Khuong (Lam Dong).
According to Vu Duc Bien, Deputy Director of the VASCO, the first flight on the new route will take off May 7.
The air route will be operated by Vasco and the Vietravel tourist company. Under the contract, Vietravel will charter two flights per week, on Thursday and Sunday, using a 67-seat ATR plane.
The 60-minute flights will depart from Can Tho at 5:35pm and the return flights will take off from Da Lat at 4:30 pm, with one-way fare selling for VND 990,000 and return fare selling for VND 1.98 million.
The launch of the flight route, the fifth route connecting Can Tho and other provinces across the country, is expected to help Can Tho, Da Lat and other neighboring localities to connect to promote the development of tourism, according to Deputy Chairman of Can Tho municipal People’s Committees, Dao Anh Dung.