A little bit about Vietnam airways. In Vietnam, all the Vietnam airways flights I took left on time and I was able to book my tickets online and check in online . Bag drop was smooth and easy. Plenty of English signage in all the airports. In contrast in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the young woman at the Vietnam airways counter took 20 minutes to check in each passenger. This combined with the tour groups all around me meant that I was in line for about an hour and worried about missing my flight. And this was not even peak tourist season!
Check your boarding gates again and again: While flying out to Hue from Hanoi, the gate for our flight to Hue was changed at the last minute (we had another gate on the boarding pass) and we had to run walk almost ten minutes across the airport to the new gate. Fortunately all announcements were in rather clear English otherwise we could have missed the flight. Lesson learnt if you have checked in early keep re-confirming the gate (the displays are not always close to the gate where you are waiting).
I had a similar experience in the transfer at KL for Siem Reap (it was Malaysian airlines then) where the gate was changed sometime between the boarding pass and boarding. The earlier gate continued to have a board announcing the flight. I only got suspicious because none of our group had arrived at gate.
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