Vietnam's Bamboo Airways to buy 10 Boeing planes during Trump-Kim summit

Bamboo Airways will sign a deal with Boeing to purchase 10 planes on the side-lines of this week's Trump-Kim summit, an airline executive said Sunday. The carrier, which is owned by property and leisure company FLC Group and made its first flights in January, placed a provisional order last year for 20 Boeing 787 widebody jets worth US$5.6b at list prices. "We will sign with Boeing a deal to buy 10 more Boeing 787s. This is different from the deal signed earlier for 20 Boeing planes," said the executive. Bamboo is currently operating 10 Airbus planes. Bamboo is aiming to open routes to the US after the FAA declared Vietnam complied with international aviation standards, in a move that would allow Vietnamese carriers to fly there for the first time and codeshare with US airlines. <br/>