Vietnam Air Service Company
Overview
 
Vietnam Air Service Company , also known as VASCO, is an airline
Airline
An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 in Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, headquartered in Tân Bình, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...

. Operating scheduled flights from its base at Tan Son Nhat International Airport
Tan Son Nhat International Airport
Tan Son Nhat International Airport is Vietnam's largest international airport in terms of area . It has a handling capacity of 15-17 million passengers per year, compared with the capacity of Hanoi - Noi Bai airport of 8 million passengers and Da Nang's 2 million passengers...

 to the south of the country, VASCO is a fully owned subsidiary
Subsidiary
A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...

 of Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines Company Limited, trading as Vietnam Airlines , is the national flag carrier of Vietnam. Founded in 1956 under the name Vietnam Civil Aviation, the airline was established as a state enterprise in April 1989. Vietnam Airlines is headquartered in Long Bien, Hanoi, with hubs at Noi...

, it also conducts charter flights, medical evacuations, SAR operations, oil platform
Oil platform
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s flights, and other aviation services.

VASCO was established by government directive in 1987, and was originally a part of Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines Company Limited, trading as Vietnam Airlines , is the national flag carrier of Vietnam. Founded in 1956 under the name Vietnam Civil Aviation, the airline was established as a state enterprise in April 1989. Vietnam Airlines is headquartered in Long Bien, Hanoi, with hubs at Noi...

, the national carrier
Flag carrier
A flag carrier is a transportation company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given country, enjoys preferential rights or privileges, accorded by the government, for international operations. It may be a state-run, state-owned or private but...

. It began scheduled passenger flights independently of Vietnam Airlines in 2004, and approval has been given for it to be partially privatized.
Quotations

3 because strength is heightened ten-fold by serenity, devoid of human obsessions and needs. User:Zarbon|Zarbon 05:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

2 User:UDScott|UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

2 User:Kalki|Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

2 User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC) ---- A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ~ Henrik Ibsen

4 because unlike the dictatorship where one person steers the ship, the community steers the ship. This, in some cases, is both damaging and positive...a mixture of thought and deduction, never solid, and moreso governed by the changing of times, parallel to how hard the wind blows the ship in a comparative image. User:Zarbon|Zarbon 05:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

3 User:UDScott|UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

3 User:Kalki|Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

3 User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC) ---- We can learn even from our enemies. ~ Ovid

3 because learning from friends and allies alone will never be enough. In order to understand one's enemies, one must study them and learn from them. Very militaristic strategist persona taken here. User:Zarbon|Zarbon 05:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

3 User:UDScott|UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

 
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