For the past several months there has been talk of Bamboo Airways’ plans to launch flights between Vietnam and the United States. There are a lot of foreign airlines that talk about launching flights to the United States, but often it doesn’t materialize.
Continue reading: Bamboo Airways Plans Vietnam To USA Flights
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
One-stop flights to Texas make sense, given the large Vietnamese-American populations in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex and Houston. Vietnamese, I believe, is the third most spoken language in Texas after English and Spanish. A Texas destination makes more sense from this perspective than NYC, though the prestige factor of NYC seems tough for airlines to resist...
There's a large Vietnamese population in Orange County, California. Maybe they should start non-stop service to John Wayne.
The owner of Bamboo is a Vietnamese billionaire real estate developer. I think the original idea was to provide flights to his resort developments, Flew it once in Vietnam. Didn't seem super professional but their flights are consistently on time unlike Vietnam Airlines and VietJet.
It would have made more sense to fly to San Jose (SJC) instead of San Francisco (SFO) since (1) there is one of America's largest Vietnamese communities there, (2) it would probably be less expensive to operate from SJC. SFO is only 45 minutes or so drive away from SJC, so it is not a major difference for most passengers, but more revenue + lower cost would probably be important to the route's viability.
Runway ain't long enough. It's fall right off into the 73 highway. Lol. That airport would make the most sense though. A better option would be ONT though.
That's too bad. Post-COVID Disney would clean up with this and other direct flights from Asia. Maybe they'd chip in to lengthen the runway.
The point is that one-stop flights from Texas to Vietnam already exist for very cheap. I'm seeing roughly $1,100 RT Economy flights from DFW-SGN thru JAL. Bamboo would have to offer a competitive advantage to take people away from those flights (such as non-stop), as they probably can't get much lower cost than that.
I understood the point, and I disagree.
$1,100 r/t to Vietnam in Y is not a competitive fare - the Chinese airlines have been running sub-$500 fares for years. Granted, I'd pay the extra $$$ to fly JAL over China Southern, and to avoid connecting through Mainland China, any day...but if Bamboo's crews are all Vietnamese, the cost of running the flight re: labor could be much cheaper than JAL (or a AA-to-JAL) or KE. Thus, I can see Bamboo being more competitive price-wise - operationally, they will likely have lower costs than the other legacy carriers.
You just proved my point... replace my original statement of $1,100 rt with sub-$500 thru China. China subsidizes it's airlines so they can offer those fares. Vietnam would have to more than match the subsidies China provides, and then we're back at Ben's point where Vietnam Airlines acknowledges they'd lose money operating the routes to the USA, which hints that Vietnam Gov doesn't want to compete with subsidies. So back to my original points, 1. Bamboo can't compete with fares, and 2. It can't operate non-stop, so there's no competitive advantage and no point flying to Texas.
I would pay non stop routes to Vietnam with double ticket prices from LA, SF or Seattle
I would say this is a great news, most people like non stop fly, save time but not sure about the cost. Safety would be the number 1 concern on any passenger mind, with the crew of all Vietnamese Pilots, do they have enough experience to fly Boeing 787. I discussed among our friends and we all agreed that this is a great way to travel to Vietnam but we may have to wait for a few years and continue to fly with EVA or China Airline for Safety reason.
There is a lack of B787 pilots in Vietnam. Therefore the company is recruiting ex Singapore Airline pilots from Singapore and from Europe. There is a bunch of ex Norwegian pilots on the market as well.
You will see most of the 787 pilots being expats. The questions is if Bamboo are able to recruit enough pilots to 11 aircrafts without offering commuting contracts. Airline starts to hire world wide and there will be a shortage of 787 pilots. Trust me!
Chờ lâu qúa, vẫn chưa khai triển, có phải Bamboo vẩn chưa có đủ pilot cho 787?
Why do you want to fly China airlines to travel to viet nam ? How about Korean air or japan air, Asiana Air, ANA instead ? i guessed you dont travel to viet nam much ?
surprised atlanta is not on this list when they have more vietnamese than koreans in atlanta dallas wouldn't even make that much sense