Bamboo Airways axes Australian flights
The Vietnamese carrier will no longer fly to Sydney or Melbourne as it enters ‘shrink to survive’ mode. Bamboo Airways has made an abrupt exit from Australian skies and has laid off all its local staff. The airline, which launched an aggressive push into Australia in 2022 with direct flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City, along with Melbourne to Hanoi, is now showing as “no flights found” and “all flights unavailable” on the Bamboo Airways website. Other international routes being abandoned include London and Frankfurt, which used Bamboo's Boeing 787 jets. The move is part of a strategy to rebuild the airline more efficiently and streamlined to enhance its competitiveness, capacity, and autonomy.
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Bamboo Airways has made an abrupt exit from Australian skies and sacked all its local staff as the struggling airline moves into "long-term restructuring”.
The carrier launched an aggressive push into Australia in early 2022 with direct flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City, along with Melbourne to Hanoi, however those routes are now showing as “No flights found” and “All flights unavailable” on the Bamboo Airways website.
In a post on LinkedIn over the weekend, former National Sales Manager Australia & New Zealand, Brad Crawford, said “It is with a heavy heart that I advise all Bamboo Airways Australia staff have been made redundant including my National Sales Manager role.”
Other international routes being abandoned include London and Frankfurt, which like Sydney and Melbourne relied on Bamboo Airways’ Boeing 787 jets.
However, the carrier is now set to downsize to a fleet of single-aisle jets focussed on "key domestic routes” such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, along with “tourist routes with high demand and international routes to Southeast Asia.”
A statement published on the Bamboo Airways website cited “long-term restructuring to rebuild the airline more efficiently and streamlined (to) enhance the company’s competitiveness, capacity, and autonomy.”
“Regarding the fleet, Bamboo Airways has been actively discussing and negotiating with partners to redesign the appropriate structure and size, prioritizing economy (and) uniformly standardizing aircraft configuration.”
“For the route network, Bamboo Airways has improved commercial efficiency by reducing the frequency of a number of inefficient routes with low passenger demand while increasing operation on routes recording high demand.”
“This set of solutions has enabled Bamboo Airways to chart a new, suitable course for its operations in late 2023 and early 2024.”
The airline has yet to advise passengers and travel agents how refunds for the cancelled flight will be processed.
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