Sichuan Airlines from Sept. 15 launches a new regular flight service between the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu and Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City (with a stopover in the southern Chinese city of Nanning.)
The new service is scheduled for a round-trip flight every Monday and Thursday, and Airbus A320 with 162 seats will be used.
Flight 3U8727 departs from Chengdu at 12:18 and arrives in Ho Chi Minh City at 16:08 (stopover in Nanning during 13:52-14:40). Flight 3U8728 leaves Ho Chi Minh City at 17:08 and lands in Chengdu at 23:15 (stopover in Nanning during 20:00-21:30).
The new flight service has been launched in part for the upcoming 8th China-ASEAN Expo, which is scheduled for Oct. 21-26.