Direct US flight to Vietnam departs
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With fanfare and an appearance by actor David Hasselhoff, a United Airlines flight headed for Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday - the first direct flight from the United States to Vietnam in almost three decades.
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HANOI : Vietnam Airlines took delivery of a brand new Boeing 777-200ER, the final aircraft of a four-jet deal guaranteed by the official US export credit agency the Export-Import Bank.
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HANOI, Nov. 17 -- President Bush arrived Friday in Vietnam on a mission to strengthen business ties with the rapidly changing country and ease the bitter memories of the war the United States waged here decades ago.
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A passenger plane bound for Washington from London was diverted to the northeastern US state of Maine on Tuesday after the name of a passenger appeared on a US government watch list, authorities said.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - A United Airlines jumbo jet took off from San Francisco at the start of the historic first US commercial flight to Vietnam since the fall of Saigon nearly 30 years ago.
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Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja will pay an official five-day friendly visit to Vietnam next week, beginning November 1. The visit is made at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Tran Duc Luong.
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(New Haven-WTNH, Dec. 27, 2004 6:48 AM ) _ This morning&#39;s Comair flight from Tweed-New Haven Airport to Cincinnati was cancelled this morning as the airline tries to get out from under problems that have crippled its system for days.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam The first US passenger jet to fly to Vietnam in almost 30 years is on the ground in Ho Chi Minh City. United Airlines Flight 869 landed in Vietnam about 7:00 this morning after leaving San Francisco yesterday.
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Air Force Two touched down at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in West Virginia on Feb. 6, 2003, carrying Vice President Cheney to the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders. He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut.
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We left Quebec City at 6 AM on our way to New York City via Montreal. It was my first train ride. I've been traveling by plane in the US for 30 years, and have seen the food go from reasonable to horrible, airline employees go from happy to surly, airport security go from somewhat inconvenient to completely ridiculous and the overall experience of plane travel go from enjoyable to barely endurable. That's really what airline travel has become, a barely endurable way to get from point A to point B. It is my hope that train travel will be a "eureka" experience.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- United Airlines became the first US carrier to fly to Vietnam since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, marking a new milestone in relations between the former enemies as dignitaries on board were greeted at the airport with lotus blossoms and silk lanterns.
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President George W. Bush, hosting  Vietnam&#39;s head of state in a historic visit, will welcome  robust trade ties the United States has developed with a former  enemy but will also push concerns on Hanoi&#39;s human rights  record.
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HANOI : Yesterday Vietnam, today Asia, tomorrow the United States: Vietnam Airlines has expanded to the point where it is even eyeing the huge American market, a move which would have been unthinkable not long ago.
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America&#39;s United Airlines has launched the first daily flight service to Vietnam from the United States since 1975. The flight represents the first such service by an American air carrier since the end of
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Vietnam Airlines said yesterday it plans to buy four Boeing 7E7s as the state-owned carrier attempts to expand its long-range fleet and may start flights to the United States.
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By Timothy J. Gibbons, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  Feb. 2--Travelers leaving Jacksonville International Airport will soon  have access to new destinations -- on a new airline.
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In Friday&#39;s national and international briefs, the first direct flight from the United States to Vietnam since 1975 is underway, Cpl.