Bamboo Airways to launch US transit flights
(VOVWORLD) - Private budget carrier Bamboo Airways plans to open air routes to the US with transit in Chinese Taiwan or Japan starting Q3, VnExpress reported.
 A Bamboo Airways aircraft taxis at the Tan Son Nhat Airport, HCMC July 13, 2019. (Photo: Shutterstock/Phuong D. Nguyen) |
The airline has proposed to the US Department of Transportation that is allowed to operate regular connecting flights – four to seven a week – between Hanoi and HCM city to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The flights will have one transit point at Taiwan’s Taipei, or Japan’s Osaka or Nagoya. The flights would use the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
The proposal marks a change in plans because the carrier had been hitherto mentioning plans to launch direct flights between Vietnam and the US. It had acquired last month slots to operate regular direct flights from HCMC to San Francisco and Los Angeles starting September.