The plan was announced after the carrier recently received a refinancing loan package from the government.
Vietnam Airlines will conduct flights from HCM City to Melbourne and Sydney from July 15 and 20 respectively. The flights on the routes will be operated weekly until the end of October.
An airplane of Vietnam Airlines
The carrier is scheduled to run flights from Hanoi to Frankfurt in Germany on July 25 and 28 and August 21 and two flights from Hanoi to London are scheduled on August 13 and September 2.
Return flights from Frankfurt are scheduled on July 26 and 29 and August 22, and from London on August 14 and September 3.
Meanwhile, Vietnam Airlines will perform flights to Tokyo every Wednesday and Saturday, beginning from July 17. The firm would reopen flights from HCM City to Bangkok every Wednesday and from Tokyo to HCM City every Thursday.
Vietnamese passengers have to carefully study the regulations of the countries they want to fly to amid the ongoing pandemic. However, foreigners can only enter Vietnam when their entry procedures are permitted by Vietnamese authorities.
Between April and June this year, Vietnam Airlines provided some one-way air routes to Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney.