Vietnam Airlines is a smaller and currently less known player in the Australia / Europe market. They offer an alternative (and often cheaper) route to the UK from downunder via Vietnam for those who want to venture away from the more well trodden stopover hubs of Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Dubai etc. Vietnam as a stopover or destination is actually very interesting (and cheap). The service on the aircraft was pretty good too, at least from my limited experience
Maybe VN just feel they will be better placed to compete for this market by being at LHR, where all of their neighbours and competitors are with the exception of (I think) just Garuda. Having lived and worked in the Asia/Pacific region a very long time, I still find most travellers originating from here struggle to name any London airport other than Heathrow.
Last edited by Logohu; 11th Jan 2015 at 11:32.
Reason: typo