This could have potential for Air Australia, as currently there is no BNE - Vietnam direct flights:
The application announced today to the International Air Services Commission for an allocation of four flights a week between Australia and Vietnam for Air Australia, formerly Strategic Airlines, is intriguing at number of levels.
Then there is the future shape of Air Australia to consider. The airline has now applied for or already been allocated more capacity to the US, China, Indonesia and Thailand than it can service with six A320s and one A330-200. It has indicated that it will obtain additional A330s, and it has been recruiting additional pilots, but details of those substantial investments to service the traffic rights granted or sought have not yet been announced.
In the case of Vietnam the Air Australia application says it wants to operate the four flights from any or all of the mainline cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, starting in March next year, and reaching the full allocation by the end of February 2013. Air Australia additionally requests an allocation of capacity from smaller Australian ports, which of course could mean Darwin, Cairns, the Gold Coast, Canberra and Adelaide, but that would mean even more A330s.
The services to Honolulu, and to destinations in China, are also due to begin next year.
The Air Australia application is just over one A4 page in size. It doesn’t need to be any longer because as a wholly owned Australian carrier, already flying abroad, it is automatically a flag carrier, and eligible for any unused or otherwise available allocations that are provided for by the various open skies or bilateral air traffic agreements Australia has made with other states.
It is a case of ask, get, and then find the money and equipment needed to fly