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One of Bamboo Airways’ Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft was spotted in Europe again yesterday. The airline’s one-year-old Boeing 787 aircraft was operating the latest in a series of repatriation flights to the continent. However, rather than flying there and back, this flight operated an open triangle route.
One of Bamboo Airways’ Boeing 787 Dreamliners was back in Europe yesterday. Photo: Boeing
A year ago Bamboo Airways was due to be operating regularly scheduled flights to and from Europe, starting with flights to Vienna. However, COVID-19 had something to say about that, throwing a spanner in the works. Despite the challenges presented, the young Vietnamese airline is still keen to branch out to Europe as soon as it is able.
Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)
Bamboo Airways officially
announced on April 28 its opening of new routes from the Mekong Delta city of
Can Tho, Da Lat city in the Central Highlands’ province of Lam Dong, and Thanh
Hoa city in the north-central province of
Thanh Hoa to Quy Nhon city in the
south-central province of Binh Dinh.
There will be five flights weekly on the Can Tho - Quy
Nhon route, four on Da Lat - Quy Nhon, and three on Thanh Hoa - Quy Nhon.
Quy Nhon’s Phu Cat Airport now hosts a total of seven
routes, catering to 60 flights on a daily basis.
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Bamboo Airways maintains top OTP and lowest flight delays and cancellations in April 10:28 | 27/04/2021
According to newly-released statistics by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam, Bamboo Airways has maintained its top spot in terms of on-time performance as well as lowest rate of flight delays and cancellations in the entire Vietnamese aviation industry in the first quarter.
From March 19 to April 18, Bamboo Airways operated 96 per cent of its flights on time, preserving its leading position in punctuality amongst the three biggest airlines, as well as the countryâs entire aviation industry.
Vietjet Air and Vietnam Airlines ranked second and third with the on-time performance (OTP) rates of 93.3 and 91.1 per cent, respectively. Meanwhile, 90.6 per cent of Vietravel Airlines flights were on time, coming in at the fourth place. With the OTP rate of 87 per cent, Pacific Airlines ranked last.
Friday, April 23, 2021, 18:40 GMT+7
An aircraft wheel is repaired in this illustration. Photo: Tuan Phung / Tuoi Tre
A broken brake hose on a Vietnam Airlines plane is the latest causality in a series of incidents involving collisions between birds and aircraft in Vietnam.
Mechanics found that the brake hose of Vietnam Airlines’ A321 plane was damaged as it landed in north-central Thanh Hoa Province at 11:11 am on Wednesday morning, following its departiure from Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
They also found a bird’s body stuck to the rear of the plane.
The incident caused a delay of nearly four hours for the return flight from Thanh Hoa to Da Lat since Vietnam Airlines scrambled to find a substitute plane.