New Vietnamese airline visits Manchester.

Bamboo Airways pays a visit to Manchester as crowds gathered for a IL76 arrival.

Photo Credit : Chris Gurney (The A320 lifts off the rather damp runway at MAN)

Bamboo Airways is a start-up airline owned by FLC group a Vietnamese construction company. The start-up airline will be based at Quy Nhon's Phu Cat Airport. The airline was founded in 2017 and will commence operations in late 2018 or early 2019. Its believed Bamboo Airways will serve destinations where FLC group have invested in tourism infrastructure. The company has heavily invested in several destinations plus the airline will serve some domestic routes.

The airline has ordered twenty 787-9 Dreamliners. The Boeing built aircraft have set back the Vietnamese airline a sum of $5.6 Billion USD. The 787's will be delivered in April 2020 and the months that follow . The aircraft has Leased aircraft until Airbus and Boeing fulfill the orders.

The Aircraft which landed at Manchester International is leased from Freebird Airlines. The Turkish registered aircraft is TC-FBH. The flight (FH605) arrived from Antalya just before a Volga-Dnepr IL76. The A320 later departed to London Gatwick on a positioning flight.

We would like to thank Chris Gurney one of our photographers for capturing this aircraft at Manchester yesterday.

Photo Credit : Chris Gurney (The leased aircraft lands at Manchester)

Written by Kian: Miles to go - Aviation Blogging