Goodbye High Fares? Where VietJet’s New Australian Airline Could Fly

Vietnamese VietJet has applied for regulatory approval to begin domestic flight operations down under. The airline, which is one of the largest in Vietnam and already has subsidiaries in Thailand and Kazakhstan, is planning to launch low-cost flights in Australia, which may finally see the Qantas-Virgin duopoly broken and the largest shake-up in Australian aviation in more than a decade.