FAQ: Flight

I will depart from another place, which is not the Agreed International Airport in the contract. What assistance is available in this case?

If a teacher wish to depart from another international airport rather than the Agreed one, the School will assist to search for flights and advise the difference, if any, between two bookings (the preferred itinerary vs the standard one). Teacher will be responsible to pay such difference.


My itinerary is kind of complicated and I would like to book a flight to Vietnam myself. Is it possible?

Teachers can book flight own their own and get reimbursed by the school later, after they have arrived in Vietnam, noting that:

  • The teacher must provide the School with a boarding pass and an e-invoice;

  • The reimbursement will be 65% of the actual invoice, but will not exceed 65% of the fare of the standard flight (from Agreed Home City to Vietnam), quoted to us by our travel agent;

  • In case the itinerary includes more than one flight, the reimbursement will be made only for the final flight, wherever it's from, to Vietnam.

When can we start looking for flights?

For teacher coming with dependent(s) we will wait until receiving all required documents for dependent visa. If all documents are good to go and it's likely that we will encounter no problems with visa application, the flight booking is next thing to do.

For single teacher or couple teachers with no dependent(s), visa application is not complicated so if everything goes well with the legalisation, we will start looking for flights around March or April.

Will the School pay for my extra baggage?

Extra baggage is not under our scheme of reimbursement. However we do provide a new teacher with a relocation allowance of VND 19,840,000 in cash upon his/her arrival in Vietnam. This amount aims to partly cover shipping or settling-in expenses.

I'm locally hired. How does the policy applies in my case?

Initial flight and relocation allowance belong to the benefit scheme designed to support overseas hired teachers who are new to Vietnam. In case the teacher is already in Vietnam at the time of hiring, such scheme will NOT apply.

What are the criteria to book flights?

The School reserves the right to opt flights for Teachers with below criteria (in priority order):

- Direct flight desired, or indirect flights with least stops as possible;

- Reasonable departure and arrival time (from 06:00AM to 11.00PM only);

- Not operated by low-cost airline (Wiki list of low cost airlines to be referred);

- At the best price for the School.