United sees rise in Vietnam fliers

"Business has been better than expected," Joe Mannix, United's Vietnam country manager, said a month after the carrier launched its service between San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City.
"We expect growth in the realm of 12 percent per year in Vietnam," he told a news conference.
Mannix declined to say how many passengers United expected to carry on the route this year.
There are an estimated 1.5 million Vietnamese in the United States, most of whom live on the West coast and state media said on Wednesday around 120,000 overseas Vietnamese were expected to visit during the Lunar New Year festival in February.