Flights from Philippines to Vietnam — Visa, Best Time, Routes

Vietnam is a fast-growing Filipino tourism corridor — Vietnam Airlines (VN), PAL (PR), Cebu Pacific (5J), at VietJet (VJ) operate Manila-to-Saigon at ~21 weekly, plus Manila-to-Hanoi at ~14 weekly. Cebu Pacific launched direct CEB-SGN April 2025. Filipino diaspora ay relatively small (~3,000) — mostly business expats, English teachers, at retirees. Off-peak roundtrip economy fares dip to PHP 8,000-14,000; Pasko at Tet peak at PHP 18,000-26,000. Visa-free 21 days for tourists.

Visa for Philippine passport holders

3 corridors are catalogued between the Philippines and Vietnam, from 2 Philippine airports. 4 carriers are on file across those corridors.

Frequency, not the calendar, sets your booking window to Vietnam

2 of the 3 Philippines–Vietnam corridors on file run at daily frequency or better, and 1 run four times a week or less. That split, not the season, is what decides how much lead time a trip needs.

On a daily corridor the cheapest fare classes refill as new inventory opens, so a booking made a month out and one made two months out often land in a similar band, and a disruption has an obvious recovery — tomorrow’s flight. On a corridor operating a handful of times a week the arithmetic inverts: the cheap classes are a fixed, small number of seats per departure, they sell in order, and there is no next flight to fall back on for days. The practical rule for Vietnam is therefore to set your lead time from the frequency of the specific corridor you intend to fly rather than from a general ‘book X weeks ahead’ figure, and on the thin corridors to buy the departure with slack behind it rather than the one closest to the date you must arrive.

Vietnam grants Philippine passport holders 21 days visa-free entry for tourism, valid for both Tan Son Nhat (SGN) at Noi Bai (HAN). Just need valid passport (6+ months), return ticket, accommodation proof. No application required. For stays beyond 21 days, e-visa (90-day single or multiple-entry) available online via the official Vietnam Immigration Department portal at ~USD 25-50 (PHP 1,400-2,800), processed in 3 working days. Visa on arrival (VOA) ay older system, mostly replaced ng e-visa. Working visas (DN visa for business, LD for labour) require Vietnamese sponsor company at work permit. TRC (Temporary Residence Card) for long-term residents. This is general information based on public consular guidance — verify current requirements with the Vietnamese Embassy in Manila before booking. Not legal advice.

Routes from PH airports

3 corridors connect 2 Philippine airports to 2 airports in Vietnam, about 39 one-way departures a week in total. 4 carriers are on file across those corridors.

Origins on file: CEB, MNL. Arrival airports: HAN, SGN. Carriers: Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, VietJet Air and Vietnam Airlines. The distribution matters more than the totals. Where several Philippine origins reach Vietnam directly, a provincial departure can beat a Manila one once the domestic positioning flight and its hotel night are priced in. Where only Manila has the nonstop, everyone routes through the same building and the same weather, and your connection buffer should reflect that. Count the arrival airports too: more than one usually means the cheap fare goes to the secondary field, and the ground transfer from it is a cost the fare comparison never shows you.

Best time to fly

3 Philippines–Vietnam corridors carry a live fare reading, the cheapest at ₱7,823 one-way. Every reading is a cache floor for a single date and fare class, excluding checked baggage where it is sold separately. 3 corridors are catalogued between the Philippines and Vietnam, from 2 Philippine airports.

Every one of those is a floor, not a quote: the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for that pair at the last poll, on one date, in one fare class, without checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately. Pooling every cached month across those corridors, July 2027 carries the lowest mean floor and June 2027 the highest — 11 months are represented, so treat it as a ranking of the dates we happen to hold, not a seasonal forecast. Two corrections make the comparison honest. Compare per hour rather than per ticket — a short hop and a long-haul sector are not the same purchase — and rebuild the total with the bag you actually intend to carry before you decide which corridor is cheapest, because a bags-free base fare on a low-cost carrier can invert the ranking entirely once a full-size checked bag is added back.

Cheapest pockets are late February (post-Tet) through April at September to mid-November. Avoid Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year, late January-mid February) — fares spike 70-100% kasi major travel period sa Vietnam, plus much of the country shuts down. Pasko balikbayan rush (Dec 15-Jan 5) at National Day (September 2) bring uplift. Reunification Day (April 30) at Labor Day (May 1) often bundled — minor uplift. Holy Week sees moderate uplift from Filipino vacationers. School breaks (April-May, October) align sa Filipino vacation cycles. Vietnam’s monsoon varies by region — south (May-October), central (October-December typhoons), north (May-October summer rains). Book 6-10 weeks ahead for off-peak; 12+ for Tet windows.

Currency & on-the-ground budget tips

3 Philippines–Vietnam corridors carry a live fare reading, the cheapest at ₱7,823 one-way. Every reading is a cache floor for a single date and fare class, excluding checked baggage where it is sold separately. 3 corridors are catalogued between the Philippines and Vietnam, from 2 Philippine airports.

The Vietnamese dong is among the lowest-value currencies: PHP 1,000 ≈ VND 435,000 (1 VND ≈ PHP 0.0023) as of May 2026. Daily food budget: PHP 200-400 (VND 87,000-174,000) for pho, banh mi, bun cha, com tam, at street food (Ben Thanh Market, Old Quarter Hanoi). Mall meals (Vincom, Saigon Centre) ay PHP 600-1,400. Grab at Be dominate ride-hailing; metered taxis (Vinasun, Mai Linh) reliable. Saigon Metro Line 1 opened recently — limited but useful. Stay sa District 1 (HCMC) or Old Quarter (Hanoi) PHP 1,000-2,500/night. Tipid tip: pho at street stalls PHP 100-150 (VND 40,000-65,000); coffee culture excellent.

Every catalogued route to Vietnam

• Manila (MNL) → Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) — VN, PR, 5J, VJ · ~21/wk
• Manila (MNL) → Hanoi (HAN) — VN, PR, VJ · ~14/wk
• Cebu (CEB) → Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) — 5J · ~4/wk

3 corridors connect 2 Philippine airports to 2 airports in Vietnam, about 39 one-way departures a week in total. 4 carriers are on file across those corridors.

Currency, and what the peso price on a fare page is not

1 settlement currency applies once you land: VND. Every fare on this site is displayed in PHP, which is a conversion of the airline’s own filed fare, not the amount your card issuer will finally charge.

Three separate exchange rates touch a single Vietnam trip and confusing them is what makes a budget wrong. The first is the airline’s own rate, applied when a fare filed in another currency is displayed to you in pesos — it moves slowly and is already baked into the price you compare. The second is your card issuer’s rate at the moment of purchase, plus whatever foreign-transaction fee your bank charges, which is why the peso figure on your statement rarely equals the peso figure on the booking page. The third is the rate you get on the ground in VND. The one to refuse outright is dynamic currency conversion — the terminal or booking page offering to charge you in pesos instead of the local currency. It looks like a convenience and is priced as a service; paying in VND and letting your own issuer convert is almost always cheaper.

FAQ

3 Philippines–Vietnam corridors sit behind the answers below, drawn from this site’s own route, carrier, visa and fare files. Cache readings are labelled as such rather than presented as bookable quotes. 3 corridors are catalogued between the Philippines and Vietnam, from 2 Philippine airports.

Delay and cancellation rights on Philippines–Vietnam flights

2 rulebooks cover Philippines–Vietnam itineraries from the Philippine side: the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which governs the departure from a Philippine airport, and the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability for delay and baggage. Vietnam may operate its own scheme for departures from its airports; this page does not track it.

None of the statutory compensation schemes this site sources — EU261, UK261, the Saudi GACA regulation, Canada’s APPR and the US DOT consumer rules — reaches Philippines–Vietnam itineraries. Read that as a statement about our source list, not as a finding that Vietnam has no rules of its own: states routinely regulate departures from their own airports, and the civil aviation authority of Vietnam is the body to check before you conclude that nothing applies. What definitely does apply in both directions is the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps a carrier’s liability for delay and for baggage that is damaged, delayed or lost. Montreal reimburses proven loss up to a cap; it pays no fixed sum for the inconvenience itself, so keep receipts rather than counting hours.

On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. It is a service and refund standard rather than a compensation tariff, so the outcome is rebooking, a refund and amenities rather than a set payment.

How many flights link the Philippines and Vietnam? 3 corridors are catalogued, from 2 Philippine airports to 2 airports in Vietnam.

Which airlines fly from the Philippines to Vietnam? 4 carriers are catalogued on Philippines–Vietnam corridors: Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, VietJet Air and Vietnam Airlines. Frequencies and block times differ by corridor, so check the individual route page before assuming a daily service.

What currency will I need in Vietnam? VND. Fares on this site are shown in PHP, which is a conversion of the airline’s filed fare and not the amount your card issuer will finally charge; decline dynamic currency conversion and pay in the local currency where you are offered the choice.

Magkano ang ticket Manila to Vietnam? Off-peak MNL-SGN ay PHP 8,000-14,000 (VND 3.5M-6.1M) roundtrip. Pasko at Tet hit PHP 18,000-26,000.

Visa-free ba ang Pinoy sa Vietnam? Oo po — 21 days visa-free. Longer stays under e-visa (90-day, USD 25-50).

SGN ba o HAN ang dapat piliin? Saigon (SGN) for southern Vietnam/business; Hanoi (HAN) for north + Halong Bay.

Bagong CEB-SGN flight ba meron? Oo, Cebu Pacific launched April 2025, ~4x weekly direct.

Related

• Cebu Pacific carrier guide →
• Philippine Airlines carrier guide →
• Mactan-Cebu International Airport (CEB) →
• Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL) →

Updated 9 May 2026. About the author →.