Vietjet wins “Best Asian Low Cost Carrier” award

The award highlights Vietjet’s achievements in providing the best services, the best network and schedules and for being the most agent-friendly airline in terms of reservations and confirmations as well as having the most professional sales and marketing team in respect of coming up with innovative ideas, exciting incentive programmes and groundbreaking services.

By winning this accolade, the airline has become the first airline from Vietnam to win this award. It is also one of 16 new winners, emerging across various categories, to take home their first ever signature Hermes trophy from the TTG Travel Awards, which have been dominated by long-term winners in previous years.

Aviation is categorised under “Travel Supplier Awards” with nine awards, consisting of best airlines for the regions of North America, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, North Asia, China, Asia Pacific, Asia and the general region. Besides Vietjet scooping the gong for “Best Asian Low Cost Carrier” award, Vietnam also boasted two other winners with Buffalo Tours named Vietnam’s Best Travel Agency and InterContinental Hanoi Westlake hotel named Best hotel in Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City.
Representing Vietjet to receive the renowned award at Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre (Thailand), Nguyen Thi Thuy Binh, vice president, said: “This award is not only tremendous recognition for Vietjet’s operations and services over the past years but it also puts Vietnam’s aviation industry on the regional and global transportation and travel map.”

Vietjet recently won the “Gold Award 2015” from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) for its innovative and meaningful marketing campaigns, which have greatly inspired and contributed to tourism development in the Asia-Pacific region.

The airline was also honoured and presented with many more national and international awards, including “Company of the Year” in the category of “Aerospace & Defense and Transportation” at the Asia Pacific Stevie Awards 2015; “Top 5 Best New Routes Launch around the World” at “2012 Budgie$ & Travel Awards” (the UK); “The Airline with Most Culturally Creative and Entertaining In-flight Programs” by the Asian Record Organization; and “Golden Star Award for Quality” by Business Initiative Directions Awards (Switzerland). Furthermore, the airline earned a Merit of Distinction from Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for the last two consecutive years.

• The TTG Travel Awards 2015 took place in Bangkok on October 1, 2015 drawing over 1,500 attendees from businesses in tourism, travel and aviation industry
• Ms Nguyen Thi Thuy Binh, Vice President, represents Vietjet to receive the renowned award “Best Asian Low Cost Carrier"