After the first leg final match at Viet Tri Stadium (Phu Tho) on the evening of January 2, the Vietnamese team will continue to meet Thailand in the second leg match at Rajamangala Stadium (Bangkok, Thailand) on January 5.
Not knowing how the first leg will play out, many Vietnamese football fans have rushed to buy plane tickets to Thailand to cheer for the Vietnamese team in the second leg.
Because the match takes place at 8pm on Sunday, January 5, many people decided to arrive in Bangkok a few days earlier to have fun and visit the capital of Thailand.
According to a survey by Lao Dong, airfares from Vietnam to Bangkok for the three days from January 3 to 5 all increased sharply.
From Hanoi, on January 3, the lowest price for a one-way direct flight from Noi Bai Airport to Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok) is 5.16 million VND, the highest is 7.7 million VND. There are not many remaining tickets, few options for customers traveling in large groups or families.
Flight tickets for January 4 and 5 are slightly cheaper, ranging from 3.6 million VND to 4.5 million VND/way. Just a few days after the ASEAN Cup final, ticket prices dropped sharply to around 1.5 million VND/way.
The price of a direct flight from Noi Bai Airport to Don Mueang International Airport on January 3 is the lowest at VND5.5 million/way, the highest at VND7.3 million/way. For January 4 and 5, the price ranges from VND3.2 to VND7.2 million/way.
The return airfare from the two airports in Bangkok to Noi Bai airport on January 6 is around 2.5 - 4.3 million VND. However, there are still quite a few empty seats on the plane for passengers to choose from.
Round-trip tickets for this route of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet increased to more than 11 million VND per pair. Round-trip tickets of Thai AirAsia, Cathay Pacific, and Thai Airways are also high at around 7 - 8 million VND.
From Ho Chi Minh City, the price of a direct flight from Tan Son Nhat to Suvarnabhumi Airport on January 3 is the lowest at 3.5 million VND, the highest is up to 8.1 million VND. If traveling on January 4 - 5, the price ranges from 2.5 - 8.1 million VND, depending on the flight time and airline.
The price of a direct flight from Tan Son Nhat International Airport to Don Mueang International Airport on January 3 is the lowest at VND3.2 million/way, the highest at VND4 million/way, but there are not many flights and empty seats left. If you travel on January 4-5, the price ranges from VND1.75 - 4 million, depending on the flight time and airline.
Return airfare from Bangkok to Tan Son Nhat International Airport on January 6 ranges from 1.7 to 3.8 million VND.
Thus, tourists and football fans may have to spend tens of millions of dong on airfare alone to go to Thailand to watch the second leg of the 2024 ASEAN Cup final.
Sharing about the sudden price increase, Mr. Bui Thanh Tu - Marketing Director of BestPrice Travel Company said that this is understandable due to the high demand of tourists, plus buying tickets close to the flight date.
On this occasion, Vietravel introduced a Thailand tour package combined with watching the football final. This 2-day, 1-night tour package costs 13.99 million VND, including tickets to watch the match and is limited to 300 seats.
In order to serve the number of passengers traveling to Thailand to watch the second leg of the AFF Cup 2024 final, on January 3, 5 and 6, Vietnam Airlines will switch to operating wide-body Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft instead of narrow-body Airbus A321 aircraft, to transport the team, passengers and fans between Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok.
The airline plans to operate wide-body Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft on flights VN610 and VN611 between Hanoi and Bangkok on January 3, 5 and 6; and flights VN600 and VN601 between Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok on January 5 and 6.
Currently, Vietnam Airlines operates 3 daily flights between Hanoi - Bangkok and 4 flights between Ho Chi Minh City - Bangkok.
The airline announced that it will continue to monitor fans' travel needs to flexibly increase flights or switch to wide-body aircraft to support the Vietnamese football team.
