Bamboo Airways axes Australian flights
Bamboo Airways has made an abrupt exit from Australian skies and sacked all its native employees because the struggling airline strikes into “long-term restructuring”. The provider launched an aggr… Bamboo Airways has terminated all its Australian flights and laid off all its native employees due to the airline's ongoing restructuring. The airline, which launched an aggressive push into Australia in 2022, had direct flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, but these routes were listed as “no flights discovered’ and “all flights unavailable” on the Bamboo Airways web site. Former Nationwide Gross Sales Supervisor, Brad Crawford, stated that all Bamboo Airlines Australia employees have been made redundant together with his Nationwide Gross sales Supervisor function. The company is now planning to downsize to a fleet of single-aisle jets based on ‘key home routes’ such as Hanoi, Ho ChiMinhmetropolis and Da Nang, together with “vacationer routes with excessive demand and worldwide routes to Southeast Asia’s Asia.
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Bamboo Airways has made an abrupt exit from Australian skies and sacked all its native employees because the struggling airline strikes into “long-term restructuring”.
The provider launched an aggressive push into Australia in early 2022 with direct flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, together with Melbourne to Hanoi, nevertheless these routes are actually exhibiting as “No flights discovered” and “All flights unavailable” on the Bamboo Airways web site.
In a put up on LinkedIn over the weekend, former Nationwide Gross sales Supervisor Australia & New Zealand, Brad Crawford, mentioned “It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I counsel all Bamboo Airways Australia employees have been made redundant together with my Nationwide Gross sales Supervisor function.”
Different worldwide routes being deserted embrace London and Frankfurt, which like Sydney and Melbourne relied on Bamboo Airways’ Boeing 787 jets.
The well-appointed Dreamliners boasted a trendy enterprise class primarily based upon the identical Collins ‘Tremendous Diamond’ platform as Air Canada’s Boeing 787 Signature Class, Fiji Airways’ A350 enterprise class, and naturally, Virgin Australia’s now-defunct ‘The Enterprise’ cabin.
Nonetheless, the provider is now set to downsize to a fleet of single-aisle jets focussed on “key home routes” corresponding to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh Metropolis and Da Nang, together with “vacationer routes with excessive demand and worldwide routes to Southeast Asia.”
A assertion printed on the Bamboo Airways web site cited “long-term restructuring to rebuild the airline extra effectively and streamlined (to) improve the corporate’s competitiveness, capability, and autonomy.”
“Concerning the fleet, Bamboo Airways has been actively discussing and negotiating with companions to revamp the suitable construction and measurement, prioritizing financial system (and) uniformly standardizing plane configuration.”
“For the route community, Bamboo Airways has improved business effectivity by lowering the frequency of plenty of inefficient routes with low passenger demand whereas growing operation on routes recording excessive demand.”
“This set of options has enabled Bamboo Airways to chart a brand new, appropriate course for its operations in late 2023 and early 2024.”
Bamboo Airways has been approached for additional remark; the airline has but to advise passengers and journey brokers how refunds for the cancelled flight shall be processed.
When Govt Traveller flew on Bamboo Airways from Sydney to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis in Could 2022, highlights included the “aggressive fares, pleasant service (and) mountains of meals.”
Talking on the launch of the Melbourne-Hanoi route, Deputy Basic Director of Bamboo Airways Truong Phuong Thanh mentioned the airline supposed to “additional increase the continuous flight community to different locations in Australia, and to attach Australia with nations in Europe and Asia via Vietnam as a transport hub.”
Bamboo Airways hoped to capitalise on a fast-growing market and what was certainly one of Asia’s hottest tourism locations previous to the pandemic, whereas additionally serving the big Vietnamese inhabitants in Sydney and Melbourne.
However bother has been brewing for a while, with the provider not solely struggling to repair its backside line after posting important losses in 2022 however seeing the departure of round 10% of its pilot base in latest months. 4 of its 5 administrators additionally resigned in June.
Rival low-cost airline Vietjet has little question added to Bamboo’s woes since its Australian debut in April. Initially connecting Sydney and Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, VietJet has since added flights to Brisbane, with Perth and Adelaide able to take to the air subsequent month.
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