Sydney Airport has welcomed its 50th airline, Vietjet, as it makes its inaugural trip from Ho Chi Minh City. Vietjet will now offer three return flights per week from the Vietnamese city on its A330-300 fleet. Vietnamese airlines are tapping into a rapidly growing tourist market, which attracted more than 317,000 Australian travellers in 2019. Sydney Airport has now bolstered its number of airlines to 50, despite the impact of COVID-19 on air travel. In 2019, there were 48 airlines flying regular passenger services through Sydney with this dropping to around 20 airlines in April 2020. Vietjet’s entry into Australia comes at a time when there is a significant amount of tourist and business travel between Australia and Vietnam.