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Bamboo Airways takes off, bringing "Quy Nhon City" brand to the US

25/09/2021

After 30 years of waiting for direct flights between Vietnam and the United States, the flight number QH9149 named "Quy Nhon City", a wide-body Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner of Bamboo Airways took off at the international airport Noi Bai, heading to San Francisco (California, US) with a journey lasting nearly 14 hours. This is the first of 12 direct flights between Vietnam and the United States that Bamboo Airways has just received a license from the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Flight number QH9149 named "Quy Nhon City"

Direct flights are the strong commitment of Bamboo Airways

At 19:25 on September 23, at the headquarter of Bamboo Airways, a ceremony of assigning the crew to carry out the first direct flight between Vietnam and the United States took place, this is an important milestone asserting the operating capacity and level of management, safety, security and infrastructure of Bamboo Airways in particular, and that of Vietnam's aviation industry in general.

The event is a continuation of Bamboo Airways' series of large-scale activities in the US market which started since September 21: Announcement of a direct route between Vietnam and the United States, and launch of the General Agent in the US market, an agreement signed to select GENx engines and maintenance package for Boeing 787-9 aircraft worth about USD 2 billion with GE Aviation under the witness of the President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, an agreement signed with CFM International on selection of LEAP-1A engines and maintenance service for all 50 A320/A321neo aircrafts ordered from Airbus.

The flight crew performs the Vietnam - United States flight (photo: Bamboo Airways)

Hanoi - San Francisco is the flight route with a distance of nearly 12,500km, the longest in the world. The flight is operated by a wide-body Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner named Quy Nhon City, the most modern of Bamboo Airways’ current fleet. As a result, the flight mobilized a significant number of flight members up to nearly 25 people, including pilots, flight attendants, technical staff, and ground staff.

Bamboo Airways expects that if conditions allow, the Vietnam - US route will come into operation from the beginning of 2022, with a starting frequency of 3 flights/week, and will quickly increase to 5-7 flights/week on the basis of market demand.

To bring the image of Quy Nhon City to the United States

For Binh Dinh province (where Bamboo Airways has chosen as the venue for its launch event as well as its headquarter at Phu Cat airport), this flight named "Quy Nhon City" has such a powerful meaning, in which the brand, image and people of Quy Nhon - Binh Dinh are side by side with the crew on the historical milestone of the aviation industry, crossing the Pacific Ocean to land on the United States. Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh Province has become one of the strategic markets of Bamboo Airways in the near future, opening up opportunities for cultural and social exchanges, economic development, trade and service in the province.

Bamboo Airways expects that if the plan goes smoothly, the Vietnam - US route will come into operation from the beginning of 2022, with the frequency of 3 flights/week for the start, and will increase to 5-7 flights/week on the basis of market demand.

The ceremony to welcome the first international commercial flight to Quy Nhon (photo: Bamboo Airways)

Previously, at 12:25 pm on January 4, 2020, Bamboo Airways coordinated with Phu Cat International Airport to hold a ceremony to welcome the first international commercial flight from Cheongju (Korea) to Quy Nhon, Binh Dinh. It is a historic flight, opening up great opportunities in attracting international tourists to Binh Dinh in the coming time.

With a coastline of 134 km, Binh Dinh is bestowed with beautiful landscapes, many gorgeous beaches and diverse aquatic system and they are great resource for tourism development, investment in real estate, including sea and island tourism. Currently a number of tourist destinations such as Ky Co, Eo Gio, Trung Luong... are becoming more and more popular.

In 2020, Quy Nhon was honored as the ASEAN Clean Tourism City 2020 at the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2020 with the theme "ASEAN -Together Towards the next generation of tourism" held in Brunei. To be acknowledged as "ASEAN Clean Tourist City", cities must ensure 7 criteria: common environmental management; clean and sanitary streets; good management and treatment of waste and wastewater; the government and community have a sense of environmental protection and street hygiene; lots of green space; there are good conditions to ensure safety, good health and urban security for tourists; appropriate and standard tourism infrastructure and facilities.