Laos opens new air route to Vietnam

Lao Airlines will open a new air route from Pakse airport, Champassack province to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City in October. The Head of Marketing Division of the company Sitthideth Douangsith said on June 7 that the new service aims to meet the growing demand of buoyed by the rapid development of economic relationship between the two countries.
The Pakse international airport is being upgraded to enable it to receive Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 aircraft from this September.