Since its establishment, Bamboo Airways has carried more than 5 million passengers on safe flights. (Photo courtesy of the airline)
Hanoi (VNA) - Bamboo Airways has won the title “Asia's leadingregional airline 2020” by World Travel Awards.
With this prize, Bamboo Airways overcame other nominees from many countries,such as Ana Wings (All Nippon Airways, Japan), SilkAir (Singapore Airlines,Singapore), Sriwijaya Air (Indonesia) and Vistara (India). This is also thesecond consecutive year that Bamboo Airways has won this important category inAsia.
“2020 has been a challenging year for the entire aviation industry worldwide,and Bamboo Airways is no exception. However, we have been implementingstrategies to respond to market fluctuations in which our core goals andorientations of building up Bamboo Airways’ vision are still firmly maintained,such as providing 5-star oriented service, becoming the carrier of first choiceof national and international passengers. This World Travel Award prize forBamboo Airways is a valuable recognition that plays a positive role inmotivation to keep us on track in our strategic roadmap," said Dang TatThang, Standing Executive Chairman and General Director of Bamboo Airways.
The World Travel Awards was established in 1993, to recognise and honouroutstanding enterprises in all fields of tourism, including travel, hospitalityand aviation. The ceremony is held annually in many regions of the world andrecognised as one of the most prestigious and comprehensive awards of theglobal travel industry.
Graham Cooke, Founder of World Travel Awards, said that this year’s resultswere obtained after a year of evaluation and review by experts and the publicin the tourism sector. This year records the highest number of votes and thenumber of official website visits since its establishment.
Since its establishment, Bamboo Airways has carried more than 5 millionpassengers on absolutely safe flights. According to the Civil AviationAuthority of Vietnam, Bamboo Airways has been leading the on-time performancerate in the entire Vietnam aviation industry in 2019 and the first 10 months of2020. The carrier always records a customer satisfaction index of 4.5/5 and isvoted by consumers as the carrier with the best service in Vietnam./.
Bamboo Airways led Vietnamese airlines in on-time performance (OTP) in August with an average rate of 95.6 percent, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).
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Since its establishment, Bamboo Airways has carried more than 5 million passengers on safe flights. (Photo courtesy of the airline) 
