Bamboo Airways plans to restart air route to US in late 2021
Bamboo Airways has set targets of doubling its domestic air routes to 60 by the end of 2020, and raising the number of international routes from six to 25, with that to the US expected to be re-launched in late 2021 or early 2022.
Hanoi (VNA) – Bamboo Airways has set targets of doubling its domestic airroutes to 60 by the end of 2020, and raising the number of international routesfrom six to 25, with that to the US expected to be re-launched in late 2021or early 2022.
The carrier’s Chairman Trinh Van Quyet made the statement onMay 19, given the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been basically controlledin Vietnam.
To serve the plan, the airline is intending to buy 60 GeneralElectric (GE) engines and related services in 2020 with a total value of 2billion USD to serve the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner fleet it is ordering.
It will hire more planes this year, instead of purchasingmore, to facilitate the expansion plan, Quyet stated.
Bamboo Airways, he went on, is operating 45-50 domesticflights a day, and is scheduled to raise the number to over 100 in early June,or equal to 80 percent of the frequency before the COVID-19 happened.
The airline is expected to go public on the stock market inthe fourth quarter of 2020 after the initial plan of being listed in the secondquarter is postponed due to the pandemic.
In the first quarter, it posted a loss of over 1.5 trillion VND(64.2 millon USD) due to a remarkable reduction of both domestic andinternational flights./.
Bamboo Airways will not change its market share target in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, though the minimum fleet plan will be reduced from 50 to 40 aircraft.
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Bamboo Airways aircraft (Source: VNA) 
