Bamboo Airways 787 Business Class: More Than Just A Flight

Thank you!!

Maybe you'll cover this in the full review but would you hesitate to fly them again?

@ AA70 -- I'll talk more about it in the review, but I would definitely fly with Bamboo Airways again. I wouldn't seek out the airline on a long haul flight, but I'd have no qualms flying with the airline.

Vielen dank und gute reise

Could we have a review of the movie "Cougar Queen"?
asking for a friend....

If I couldn’t have saved a menu for Carfield the f/a and I would have come to blows.

I’m curious about the wine, was it Vietnamese wine?

Just curious. How did the blueberry mouse taste?

The flowers instead of bamboo in the bathroom is the ultimate missed opportunity of all missed opportunities....

Personally I prefer blueberry rat, but each to his own taste. How was the mouse?

British Airways, does in fact serve hot towels before meals.
At least on the yyz to lhr and lgw to tfs flights.
As of last Sunday and early Monday.

Occasionally, when I post something the comments section does not publish it. When I retry I get a comment that "you have already said this". Does this happen to anyone else?

I can't wait to read more. You seem like you had some genuine fun.

Yes! I think he doesn’t put a lot of negative remarks at times……

Indeed!

MH and TG also consistently offer hot towels before meals on several recent flights I had with them in late Dec ‘22 and early-mid Jan ‘23.

I think most airlines have already reverted back to pre COVID levels of service, I didn’t notice anything significantly different compared to service from before the pandemic.

Ben, I just got back from several weeks in Vietnam and flew several legs on Bamboo. It really is a great little airline. Love the crew with their hands on their heart during boarding and just how polished everything is. I also heard ABBA’s Happy New Year playing in random restrictions and even people’s homes. It’s a thing in Vietnam this time of year it seems. Very cute.

Those nuts certainly to my eyes look more like almonds than mixed nuts. Just my $0.02…

Your expectations are too high in some way. I think you should keep in mind the type of airline and your origin and destination as well as how much you paid or the cash value. You can't compare it to what you would get on the best airlines. Comments like about the bedding or not being given menus, etc. You should consider more about what is really important. Imagine the costs for some of your expectations.

Hahaha, Abba's Happy New Year is so typically Vietnamese - They will belt it out from Christmas to the end of March! It's actually why I chose the restaurant where my future wife worked in Nha Trang.... Christmas decorations still up and that song, I thought they don't give a shit and still have customers, their food must be good - and it was....
Chuc Mung Nam Moi! 🙂

I don't mind not getting a paper menu if it's available in the entertainment system. On my recent flights with EVA I always looked up the drinks there, and in case of misunderstandings (they don't seem to know their mocktail "Sonata in the air" which tastes so great!) point to the item on the screen.
Don't know why that's not standard everywhere. It's a cheap and simple solution. Only downside is you can't use it during announcements.

Asian airlines love to use ABBA's Happy New Year as boarding music. Until just a few weeks ago I thought it was a Taiwanese song.

Speaking of exotic airlines...you should try Azul from VCO to the US or Europe!

yes. just refresh and your comment will be there. what is annoying is that you have to scroll down and go thru the comments to find your place every time u refresh, after you post, and after you comment something....ugh

I am sure that paying their employees much less than Lufthansa, eliminating the possibility of an airline career as well as eliminating all types of diversity allows them to spend more on the soft product

The reverse herringbone seats of most business classes are fine unless you’re disabled. The entrances to each pod are so narrow it’s nearly impossible to get from the airline’s wheelchair to your seat. Ben—you cover every minutiae of the flight, but you pretend that we disabled people don’t exist. For instance, some airlines have one bathroom on their planes big enough to accommodate a wheelchair, but many others leave no alternative but to pee into a bottle at your seat. But you never,ever mention this.

Dalat,Vietnam produces some decent wine and coffee. But I guess Bamboo Airways' wine is not from in Vietnam.

Interesting read and airline.
AA still continues to offer hot towels prior to serving dinner in business class.

I'm not sure what you want Ben to do. He is an able-bodied man. How can he critique something that he doesn't know, and can't speak too? Not to mention in many countries around the world they frankly don't care about disabled people, harsh but true. In the US is a different story, and if you think that it is discriminatory towards people with disabilities or people who can't or have a hard time moving around, you need to take that up with the airline and the DOT. Complaining to someone who is not disabled, on a blog is not the place. I'm sure if you look hard enough you could find a blog that address your concerns, from someone who lives with these challenges.

Presumably you would expect most people earn less in Vietnam regardless of the job type compared with German salaries. Why would they pay German wages for staff who live in Vietnam?

Bamboo is not an attractive plant in isolation, hence the very attrctive orchids.

Umm okay, I bet you are fun at parties.

Thanks for the review!

Are the seats the Collins Super Diamond or the Safran Cirrus?