Hue eyes air connection with to Japan

The authorities of central Thua Thien-Hue Province and Japan’s Shizuoka City have met in Hue City to discuss a plan to open flights connecting the two cities.

They hope to conduct the first flight from Hue City’s Phu Bai International Airport to Shizuoka City on the occasion of the inauguration of Shizuoka’s Fujisan (Fuji Mountain) International Airport in early March 2009.

Regular flights connecting two cities are expected to attract more Japanese tourists to Hue City and vice versa, as well as facilitate the travel of overseas Vietnamese students and the two countries’ businessmen.

The cooperation in opening the new air route is part of the two cities’ cooperation programme signed in April 2005, which has been also extended to various fields, particularly urban and environmental management, and cultural exchange.