Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On 9 December 2004, United Airlines became the first U.S. airline to fly to Vietnam since Pan Am's last flight during the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. Flight UA 869, operated using a Boeing 747-400 landed at Ho Chi Minh City, the terminus of the flight that originated from San Francisco via Hong Kong. On 29 October 2006, this service was ...
Notes: Among 10 international airports mentioned above, only five are served with current international flights including Tan Son Nhat (Ho Chi Minh City), Noi Bai (Hanoi), Da Nang (Da Nang), Cam Ranh (Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa province) and Phu Quoc (Phú Quốc, Kiên Giang province).
Phu Cat Airport: Bình Định: Quy Nhon: UIH VVPC Unknown Unknown Unknown 12 Can Tho International Airport: Cần Thơ: Cần Thơ: VCA VVCT 2,245,670 513,000 Unknown 13 Pleiku Airport: Gia Lai: Pleiku: PXU VVPK Unknown Unknown Unknown 14 Con Dao Airport: Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu: Côn Đảo: VCS VVCS 447,750 Unknown 464,958 ...
Long Thanh International Airport (IATA: none, ICAO: none) is an international airport under construction in Long Thành district, Đồng Nai province, Vietnam, approximately 40 km (25 mi) east of Ho Chi Minh City. It will be the second airport to serve the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area, after the existing Tan Son Nhat International ...
Tan Son Nhut Air Base in 1962. The uncrowded flight line reflects the level of USAF/RVNAF activity Douglas DC-6B VIP Transport of the RVNAF 314th Special Missions Squadron RVNAF C-47 Skytrains of the 413th Transportation Squadron on the crowded flightline at Tan Son Nhut in 1966 along with a Royal Air Force De Havilland Dove, a USAF Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, and several other aircraft
A Babylift flight arrives at San Francisco, 5 April 1975. Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other Western countries (including Australia, France, West Germany, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon), on 3–26 April 1975.
[4] [5] The airport's IATA code, HAN, is derived from the city's current name of Hanoi. Of the routes the airport offers, the Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City route is the busiest flight in Southeast Asia and the fourth busiest in the world, serving 10,883,555 customers in 2023, an increase of 3% in comparison to 2022. [6]
Pan Am Flight 841 was a commercial passenger flight of a Boeing 747 from San Francisco, California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on 2 July 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning United States involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the U.S. of the South Vietnamese hijacker, a ...