Boeing to sell 20 787 Dreamliners to Vietnamese start-up air carrier

Boeing announced Monday it will sell 20 787 Dreamliners to Vietnamese start-up air carrier, Bamboo Airways, at list prices of US$5.6b. Boeing signed an agreement with Vietnamese conglomerate FLC Group, the owner of Bamboo Airways, on the Dreamliners deal, under which Boeing will deliver the aircraft to its Vietnamese client starting April 2020 through 2021 after Bamboo Airways completed the deposit requirement in mid-June. Trinh Van Quyet, chairman of FLC Group said the new state-of-the-art Dreamliners will help Bamboo Airways to expand key markets in Asia, Europe and North America, he said. Bamboo Airways plans to begin commercial operations in 2019 out of the Vietnamese capital city of Hanoi, with initial operations on domestic flights, before expanding into other Northeast Asian markets. <br/>