Bamboo Airways provides Melbourne-Hanoi service
Printed on : Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Vietnamese airline Bamboo Airways has introduced a second service between Melbourne and Vietnam, with continuous flights to and from Hanoi scheduled to start on April 27. The service marks the primary direct connection between Melbourne and Hanoi.
The airline intends to initially function one return flight per week between Melbourne and the Vietnamese capital, utilizing Boeing 787 plane.
The announcement follows the launch of the airline’s service between Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, which took flight in February this 12 months.
Bamboo Airways selected Melbourne as its Australian headquarters and have become the primary new overseas provider to serve Victoria for the reason that starting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Melbourne Airport Chief of Aviation Lorie Argus stated that she was thrilled that Bamboo Airways had expanded its companies.
“Bamboo Airways was the primary new worldwide airline we welcomed to Melbourne for the reason that begin of the pandemic, so to be increasing into an extra service so rapidly after the preliminary announcement is nice information for Melbourne Airport. It’s additionally thrilling to have the first-ever direct service between Melbourne and Hanoi.
“It’s additionally nice information for Australians, who we all know love visiting Vietnam. Importantly, this service may also assist join the Vietnamese neighborhood in Australia to family and friends again house, in addition to allow us to welcome Vietnamese guests and worldwide college students to Melbourne,” she stated.
Truong Phuong Thanh, Deputy Common Director of Bamboo Airways, added: “The common continuous Hanoi-Melbourne route is a testomony to Bamboo Airways’ resilience and strategic imaginative and prescient in connecting Vietnam and the world regardless of the sudden pandemic.
“With the help and expansive community of Melbourne Airport, we imagine our new continuous service will create beneficial situations for the travellers of each international locations, thus contributing to fruitful ties between Vietnam and Australia in numerous features equivalent to commerce, commerce, funding, tradition, and tourism.
“That is additionally an important premise for Bamboo Airways to additional increase the continuous flight community to different locations in Australia, and to attach Australia with international locations in Europe and Asia via Vietnam as a transport hub,” he stated.
Member for St Albans Natalie Suleyman MP stated that Bamboo Airways’ new companies ship a number of alternatives for native communities.
“These new connections between Melbourne and Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Metropolis imply that our large Vietnamese inhabitants in Melbourne have extra alternatives to go to household and associates and reconnect after a protracted two years aside.
“However simply as necessary as these reunions is the truth that as worldwide tourism reopens, it creates new jobs and new alternatives for individuals who dwell within the space, and we’re so enthusiastic about this,” she stated.
The Melbourne-Hanoi service is topic to regulatory approval. The announcement delivers on a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2019.
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