As many as 1,753 passengers from abroad came to Vietnam on 17 flights between January 1 and 3, the first three days after the resumption of regular international flights.
Bamboo Airways plans to gradually increase the frequency of regular international flights from the beginning of 2022, after receiving the permission from the Government.
Bamboo Airways on December 17 morning (Vietnam time) launched its direct air route linking Vietnam with Australia during an inaugural ceremony held in Melbourne international airport of Australia.
Bamboo Airways plans to promote operations in Italy, and South, Central and Northern Europe markets from the first quarter of next year, aiming to launch a supplementary market for direct flights connecting Vietnam with Germany and the UK, as well as deploying a regular direct flight between Vietnam and Italy from the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 in line with market conditions.
A Bamboo Airways flight coded QH1592 departing from Ho Chi Minh City arrived at Dien Bien Phu airport in the northern province of Dien Bien on December 3, marking the launch of the first direct air service between HCM City and Dien Bien.
The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa expects to welcome some 9,350 international tourists on board 48 flights from now until the end of 2021, according to director of the provincial Department of Tourism Nguyen Thi Le Thanh.
A Vietjet Air flight carrying 100 foreign tourists is expected to arrive at Da Nang International Airport in the central city of Da Nang at 11:05 pm on November 18.
Bamboo Airways and Safran inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a potential 2 billion EUR deal in Paris on November 4 (Vietnam time) in the presence of Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his French counterpart Jean Castex.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh engaged in a number of activities while paying a working visit to the UK and attending the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in the European nation.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 31 attended the announcement ceremony of a direct Vietnam - UK air route by the Bamboo Airways held in Edinburg city, the UK.
The Ministry of Transport has announced that it has built plans on restoring domestic flights in the period from October 21 – November 30 based on the outcomes of the pilot resumption of domestic flights from October 10-17.
The first Bamboo Airways flight from Hanoi landed in Dien Bien Phu airport in the northern border province of Dien Bien on October 14, marking the official launch of Bamboo Airways' Hanoi-Dien Bien route.
The Transport Ministry has suggested the Foreign Ministry send a diplomatic note to the US on the designation of Bamboo Airways as an operator of regular flights between Vietnam and the US.
The Bamboo Airways Joint Stock Company has raised its charter capital to 18.5 trillion VND (814 million USD) from 16 trillion VND, according to the National Business Registration Portal.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has shown its support for Bamboo Airways to conduct regular direct flights to the US in a recent report to the Ministry of Transport.
To launch direct flights to the US, Vietnamese carriers have to satisfy strict requirements of US competent agencies, especially those by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Bamboo Airways’ first flight on its direct route between Vietnam and the US landed in San Francisco, the US, on September 23 (local time) after 13 hours and 36 minutes of nonstop flight.
On September 21, in the framework of his on-going working trip to the US, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc witnessed the signing of an agreement worth nearly 2 billion USD between Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways and General Electric’s GE Aviation in New York.
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