TIẾNG VIỆT Bamboo Airways to open direct route to Australia early next year
Bamboo Airways' Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner named Sam Son Beach at Melbourne International Airport. Photo courtesy of the carrier.
The information was disclosed after the carrier successfully conducted a flight to Australia to bring 300 overseas Vietnamese and students home on weekend.
The Vietnamese private air carrier sees Australia as one of aviation markets for Vietnam, and it plans to operate the direct route connecting the two countries in early 2021, said Nguyen Ngoc Trong, deputy general director of Bamboo Airways.
The flight on weekend marked the first time in Vietnam that an airline offers a full package of after-flight isolation service for passengers in need. It is also considered an important milestone to confirm the early cooperation agreement in practice between Bamboo Airways and its strategic partners in Australia, Melbourne International Airport and RMIT University, he added.
In the future, Bamboo Airways plans to develop direct flights connecting Vietnam with destinations in Oceania, Asia, Southeast Asia
In the remaining months of this year, the air carrier will conduct charter flights to South Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan - China, the Czech Republic, and US.
Bambo Airways was was launched in January last year and it was operating 40 domestic and international routes before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the aviation sector early this year.
