Thai Vietjet wins ‘Fastest Growing Low-Cost Carrier of the year’

(Bangkok, December 4, 2020) – Thai Vietjet wins another major award, receiving global recognition as the ‘Fastest Growing Low-Cost Carrier of the year’ in Thailand, conferred by Global Business Outlook Magazine. The award highlights Thai Vietjet’s achievements in fleet and new destination growth. Starting operations for both international and domestic services in late 2016 with only 3 aircraft, the carrier has obtained triple-digit growth since then with 13 aircraft, together with 14 Thai domestic destinations and 17 other international routes operated to Vietnam, Taiwan, and mainland China.

With 7 new routes recently announced in 2020, Thai Vietjet plans to carry more than three million passengers this year with a fleet of 15 aircraft.

“The Covid-19 pandemic has caused great damage to the global economy and tourism in general, leaving the aviation industry with a lot of challenges. With our efforts and better defining our mission in the economy in general and the tourism industry in particular, we have urgently changed our development strategies to help keep travel and tourism active following a good disease prevention and control. People will not bear the missing of traveling due to the Covid-19. They still can fly whenever they like as we have offered and will bring more traveling opportunities by opening new flights with safe, fun and enjoyable experience,” said Nguyen Thi Thuy Binh, Chairwoman of Thai Vietjet.

Vietjet has been awarded the highest ranking for safety with 7 stars in 2018 and 2019 by the world’s only safety and product rating website airlineratings.com and listed as one of the world's 50 best airlines for healthy financing and operations by Airfinance Journal in 2018 and 2019. The airline has also been named as Best Low-Cost Carrier by renowned organizations such as Skytrax, CAPA, Airline Ratings, and many others.

The Global Business Outlook Award 2020 honors organizations and enterprises with excellent performance in the past year for the innovations, creativity, and business advantages. This year, Thai Vietjet was one of the awardees. Global Business Outlook is a prestigious business journal specialized in news on global business Airlines, finance, and banking, providing information on trends and developments which have quite an influence on the global business around the world. Readers of the journal include managers, administrators of top global firms and corporations.