JAL juggles further fleet renewal options

Viet Nam's Bamboo Airways eyes alliance membership

Bamboo Airways (QH, Hanoi) is planning to join one of the global airline alliances in 2023 and is actively pursuing more interline partnerships with larger carriers, Chief Commercial Officer Thach Pierre Hoang said during the Routes Asia 2022 conference in Da Nang.

Thach said that the privately-owned airline would decide on which of the three alliances to join once it gets a clearer picture of the requirements and benefits of all of them. Majority-state-owned rival Vietnam Airlines is a member of Skyteam, which also counts Garuda Indonesia among its member airlines. Star Alliance's South-East Asian member carriers include Thai Airways International and Singapore Airlines, while Malaysia Airlines is a member of Oneworld.

Bamboo Airways is in talks about interline partnerships with JAL - Japan Airlines (Oneworld), Air Canada (Star Alliance), and Virgin Australia (unaffiliated), Thach added.

The ch-aviation PRO airlines module shows that the dynamically growing Vietnamese carrier pursues an independent strategy as of now and has no codeshare agreements in place....

South Korean carriers to revive PW4000-powered B777s in 2Q22

United Airlines cleared to reactivate PW4000-powered B777s

United Airlines (UA, Chicago O'Hare) has been cleared by the US Federal Aviation Administration to restart operations of its Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered B777s, more than a year after they were grounded over engine safety concerns.

Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Nocella said at a Bank of America industry conference that the regulator issued a safety bulletin to the airline on May 16, 2022. He predicted that the first aircraft would be back in service in "around a week" from that day.

United Airlines operates fifty-two B777s powered by PW4000 Family engines, comprising nineteen B777-200s and thirty-three B777-200(ER)s. All of them were grounded in February 2021, after an uncontained engine failure caused an emergency landing of a B777-200 shortly after take-off from Denver Int'l. The airline hoped to start reactivating the B777s this month, but the delayed FAA approval caused it to adjust its schedule to June.

United Airlines never wavered in its commitment to its PW4000-powered B777s, in contrast to JAL - Japan Airlines, ANA - All...

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