by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Tourism, Aviation & Hospitality
⚡ TL;DRLong Thành International Airport, 40 kilometres east of Hồ Chí Minh City, was first sketched in the late 1990s, approved by the National Assembly in 2015 and finally broke ground in January 2021. Its first phase, one runway, one terminal and capacity for 25...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Tourism, Aviation & Hospitality
⚡ TL;DRPhú Quốc was a fishing island of 100,000 people with a dirt airstrip in 2010. By 2025 it received on the order of six million visitors a year, hosted the region’s longest sea-crossing cable car, a Bill Bensley-designed JW Marriott and an entire themed...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Tourism, Aviation & Hospitality
⚡ TL;DRBamboo Airways launched in January 2019 as the aviation arm of the FLC property group, promised five-star service at mid-market fares, and within three years was flying Boeing 787s to London and Frankfurt and carrying nearly a fifth of Vietnam’s domestic...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Tourism, Aviation & Hospitality
⚡ TL;DRVietnam Airlines is the state-owned flag carrier that spent the 2010s buying widebody jets and chasing a four-star rating while a private rival took its home market. When the pandemic closed the borders it lost roughly VND 35 trillion in three years, its equity...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam Tourism, Aviation & Hospitality
⚡ TL;DRVietjet went from a paper licence in 2007 to Vietnam’s largest domestic airline by passengers in roughly a decade, overtaking the state-owned flag carrier on its home market with a single-type Airbus fleet, cheap fares and a relentless ancillary-revenue...
