Taipei, Nov. 22 (CNA) Taipei-based StarLux Airlines Co. will begin flying to Hanoi on Jan. 13, 2023, as border controls imposed to control the spread of COVID-19 have eased up in both Taiwan and Vietnam, the airline announced Tuesday.
StarLux will fly between Taoyuan International Airport and the Vietnamese capital once a day using the single-aisle Airbus A321neo, and its target market will be Taiwanese businessmen and tourists, the airline said in a statement.
The scheduled daily flight will leave Taoyuan at 9:25 a.m. and land in Hanoi at 11:40 a.m., and then depart from Hanoi at 12:55 p.m. and arrive in Taiwan at 4:35 p.m., the carrier said.
The new route will make travel to Vietnam on the airline more convenient since it already flies to Da Nang in central Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City in the south, the statement said.
StarLux -- which currently has a fleet of 11 A321neo, four A330neo and one A350-900 aircraft -- will also launch flights to Cebu in the Philippines on Jan. 17 next year, bringing the total number of destinations it serves to 15, all of them in Asia.
