Overseas ambitions, bumper plane orders test Vietnam's 'bikini airline'

Overseas ambitions, bumper plane orders test Vietnam's 'bikini airline'

VietJet Air CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao speaks behind a model of a VietJet aircraft during an interview in her office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, January 10, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Kham/File Photo

VietJet Air has gone from start-up to Vietnam’s largest private airline in five years. Now it is pushing overseas to keep up that growth and absorb a bumper order of more than 200 planes: no easy task in a cutthroat southeast Asian market.

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