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Vietnam's Bamboo Airways to buy 50 Airbus A321neo planes: chairman

Vietnam's Bamboo Airways to buy 50 Airbus A321neo planes: chairman

Friday, March 29, 2019, 08:57 GMT+7
Vietnam's Bamboo Airways to buy 50 Airbus A321neo planes: chairman
An Airbus A321 aircraft of Bamboo Airways taxis at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, Vietnam January 16, 2019. File photo: Reuters

Bamboo Airways will buy 50 Airbus A321Neo planes, its chairman Trinh Van Quyet said on Thursday, as the Vietnamese carrier expands and begins international flights.

The first of the planes will be delivered in 2022, Quyet told Reuters on phone. He declined to disclose the value of the deal, which was signed on Thursday.

Quyet said the agreement includes the 24 planes covered by a memorandum of understanding signed with Airbus last March.

“We have chosen Airbus as the supplier of narrow-bodied planes, while using wide-bodied aircraft from Boeing,” Quyet said.

Bamboo Airways, owned by property and leisure company FLC Group, plans to launch its first international flights late next month, initially to Japan, Singapore and South Korea, he said.

The airline, which made its maiden flight in January, announced a deal to buy 10 Boeing 787 wide-bodied jets worth $2.9 billion on the sidelines of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi late last month.

Reuters

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