VIETNAM Airlines will operate a series of charter flights between Danang and Osaka, Japan, from December, using the 184-seat Airbus 321.

From July or August 2010, the flight will become the regular Osaka-Danang-Siem Reap service, according to the airline.

Danang Tourism Promotion Center vice-director, Mr Nguyen Duy Quang, said the new route linking Vietnam's beach resort city of Danang with Cambodia's cultural town of Siem Reap would stimulate demand from Japanese tourists to both destinations.