Vietnam Airlines officially inaugurated its direct flight route between Hanoi and Amsterdam on June 16, marking the first time a Vietnamese carrier has operated direct flights to the Netherlands.
The inaugural flight, VN83, departed from Noi Bai International Airport at 3:50am on June 16 with nearly 300 passengers on board.
On the return leg, flight VN82 from Amsterdam to Hanoi took off at 2pm (local time) on the same day.
Vietnam Airlines will operate the Hanoi–Amsterdam route with a frequency of three round-trip flights per week, departing on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, all utilizing the Airbus A350 fleet.
The launch of this new route directly connects the capital city of Hanoi with Amsterdam, one of Europe’s most vital economic, financial, commercial, and logistics hubs. Additionally, passengers from Vietnam will now have more convenient access to a network of hundreds of global destinations through Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
According to Vietnam Airlines, the addition of the Hanoi–Amsterdam service brings the carrier’s total number of direct routes between Vietnam and Europe to 12, serving eight major destinations: Paris, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Copenhagen, Moscow, and Amsterdam.
In addition to the new Amsterdam service, Vietnam Airlines announced that it will increase the frequency of its Hanoi–Moscow route from three to four round-trip flights per week starting July 1, 2026, to meet the rising demand for travel between Vietnam and the Russian Federation.
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