My trip to Vietnam on the 2nd of January, had many firsts. My first time travelling for 2019, travelling to Vietnam, my first time travelling with Vietnam Airlines and travelling on the state of the art Airbus A350, flying economy!. My plane registered VNA895 , only one year old, awaited me at Terminal 2, Gate 14A in current livery. It operated as VN780 to Ho Chi Minh from Melbourne.
We had an on time departure , pushing back 10 minutes after scheduled departure at 11:35am. Entering the aircraft, economy was in 3-3-3 configuration. You could clearly see the interior was spacious, even for economy. When i settled in my seat 35H, i was quite impressed with how much leg room I had. The TV Screens were of decent size and of high quality, though i wish there was a broader movie selection!.
The airshow was pretty cool though and i loved checking the progress every couple of hours in between movies.
About 2 hours into the flight, we had lunch served, it was fresh vegetable salad with smoked salmon with either stir fried beef with black pepper sauce and steamed rice or Malaysian stir friend chicken with kway teow noodles (which i selected as my main) complimented with a dinner roll and a delicious ginger bread cake. Needless to say i scoffed my lunch down . The cabin crew did what they had to do but I do wish they were a bit more friendlier.
Overall, the biggest praise was for the aircraft itself!. It was spacious, especially very quiet, and thanks to its state of the art technology, did not arrive feeling exhausted/ jet lagged as associated with older aircraft. The airline itself was good for the most part, my only con being the half friendliness of the cabin crew.
After 7 hours and 48 minutes of flying, we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City.
Rating: 3.5/5
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