Accordingly, a round-trip airfare from Ha Noi to Bangkok will cost only VND899,000 or US$35, excluding taxes and fees.

The promotional offer can be availed until September 30, and is applicable for departure until March 31, 2018.

Tickets can be purchased through www.vietnamairlines.com, and the airline’s booking offices and agencies nationwide.

Currently, Vietnam Airlines operates three return flights on the route each day. The flights from Ha Noi depart at 8.50am, 12.45pm and 4.05pm and arrive in Bangkok at 11.55am, 3.55pm and 7.05pm.

Viet Nam has been a rising star in Thailand’s tourism source market with arrivals projected to break the 1 million-barrier this year, the Bangkok Post reported.

“Viet Nam may not be high profile, but it is one of the rising stars in terms of the growth potential,” the newspaper quoted Walailak Noypayak, executive director for Asean, South Asia and South Pacific at the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) as saying.

Meanwhile, Thailand is also one of leading countries in the number of tourists visiting Viet Nam. Some 270,000 Thais visited Viet Nam last year, up 24 per cent year-on-year, according to the Viet Nam Administration of Tourism. — VNS