Jakarta, Nov. 23 -- Vietnam Airlines on November 23 officially inaugurated its new direct route linking Jakarta of Indonesia and Hanoi of Vietnam with the first flight departing from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, serving the growing travel demand between the two countries amid increasingly bilateral cooperation across multiple sectors. The inaugural flight from Jakarta, coded VN634 and carrying 131 passengers, departed at 01:30 on November 23 and landed in Hanoi at 05:50 after 4 hours and 20 minutes. Earlier, in the opposite direction, flight VN635 left Hanoi at 20:15 on November 22 and landed in Jakarta at 00:40 on November 23. Using Airbus A321 aircraft, which can accommodate up to 185 passengers, the Hanoi-Jakarta direct servic...