<ul class="summary-list"><li>Bamboo Airways could become the first <keyword id="11906679" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vietnam" source="Orion">Vietnam</keyword>ese carrier to operate nonstop commercial service between Vietnam and the US after receiving approval from the US <keyword id="11894924" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="transportation" source="Orion">Transportation</keyword> Security Administration.</li><li>Service between Hanoi and Da Nang in Vietnam to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle in the US will begin on September 23, according to local media reports.</li><li>The airline will run the routes using a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in a three-class configuration.</li></ul><p>Upstart Vietnamese carrier Bamboo Airways will launch nonstop service to the US in September, and may become the first airline ever to do so commercially.</p><p>On Tuesday, Vietnamese media outlet <a href="https://vnexpress.net/bamboo-airways-sap-co-chuyen-bay-thang-di-my-4352570.html">VnExpress</a> reported Bamboo has received clearance from the US Transportation Security Administration to operate 12 roundtrip test <keyword id="6367662" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="flights" source="Orion">flights</keyword> to the US from September to November. The demonstration flights will begin on September 23. </p><p>Bamboo did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on the new flights.</p><p>The airline is the second Vietnamese carrier to receive such clearance, but Bamboo's US service will start before <keyword id="12055324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vietnam-airlines" source="Orion">Vietnam Airlines</keyword>' planned <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-26/vietnam-airlines-aims-to-start-first-u-s-route-late-october">flights which are set to begin in October</a>.</p><p>VnExpress reported Bamboo's routes will operate from Hanoi and Da Nang in Vietnam to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle in the US. <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-2021-0066-0001">According to its DOT application</a>, the airline will use the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, one of the few aircraft that can handle the long hop across the Pacific Ocean.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ✈️  (@flySFO) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1435353431523405834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2021</a></blockquote><p>Coinciding with the launch, the airline has plans to sign memorandums with San Francisco and Los Angeles airports and is in the process of establishing a representative office in the US, according to VnExpress.</p><p>In May 2021, <a href="https://www.bambooairways.com/vn-en/company/press-and-news/press-release/bamboo-airways-announces-recruitment-for-its-representative-office-in-the-us/?id=2522&amp;category=0ry=0">Bamboo announced</a> it acquired slots to fly direct from Ho Chi Minh City to San Francisco and Los Angeles beginning September 1, making it the first Vietnamese airline to secure nonstop airport slots in the US. Bamboo is a relatively new airline, starting its first flights in 2019.</p><p>Bamboo's clearance from the TSA is a major step forward in receiving final approval from the FAA, which only <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-announces-aviation-safety-rating-vietnam?newsId=23474">established Vietnam as a Category 1</a> country in 2019. According to the FAA, the rating means the country meets international standards for operations and airworthiness and Vietnamese <keyword id="11898285" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="airlines" source="Orion">airlines</keyword> can operate flights to the US. </p><p>Bamboo hopes to begin regularly scheduled service from Vietnam to the US by the end of 2021 or early 2022, according to VnExpress. </p>

A Vietnamese airline is starting nonstop test flights to the US soon

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Singapore's first giant panda cub, Le Le, traveled to China on Tuesday.</li><li>The panda cub took a 4.5-hour-long flight to China via Singapore Airlines.</li></ul><p>Singapore Airlines was given a monumental task in January: They were put in charge of sending Le Le, a 2.5-year-old giant panda cub, to China.</p><p>Born in August 2021, Le Le was Singapore's first giant panda cub. The cub's parents, Kai Kai and Jia Jia, traveled to Singapore on loan in 2012. Both pandas are set to return to China in 2027.</p><p>Le Le, however, has to be separated from his parents. Due to conservation concerns, China requires host countries to return any cubs born there.</p><p>The journey back home was a complicated one to execute.</p><p>"The Singapore Airlines team has spent the last five months poring through every little detail to prepare for this special flight," said Gajandran Sokayan, an assistant manager at the airline who oversees dangerous goods and special cargo.</p><h2>Pre-flight preparation began back in December</h2><div type="image" title="Giant panda cub Le Le." height="3024" width="4032" msid="106945658" hostid="261" sizebytes="456316"></div><p>Le Le made one last public appearance in Singapore on December 13 at River Wonders, Singapore's river-themed wildlife park. The cub went into quarantine for the big journey on December 14. </p><p>The zoo's team then used positive reinforcement training to familiarize the cub with a custom travel crate.</p><p>The crate was equipped with removable plywood boards for feedings and checks.</p><h2>Getting to the airport while beating the Singaporean heat</h2><div type="image" title="Le Le's crate had to be transported from the zoo to the airport using a reefer truck. The truck had to be kept at a temperature of between 12°C and 16°C." height="854" width="1280" msid="106945659" hostid="261" sizebytes="138808"></div><p>On the day of the big move, Le Le's crate had to be transported from the zoo to the airport with an air-conditioned truck. The truck's temperature was kept between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius to keep things nice and cool for the furry traveler.</p><h2>Riding safely on a pallet</h2><div type="image" title="Le Le's crate had to be secured to a pallet before it was loaded onto the plane." height="854" width="1280" msid="106945661" hostid="261" sizebytes="73714"></div><p>After arriving at the airport, Le Le's crate had to be secured to a pallet before loading it onto the plane. This pallet also contained travel essentials for the giant panda cub. The total weight of the palletized crate was around 600 kilograms.</p><h2>No boarding queues for this young traveler</h2><div type="image" title="Le Le's crate was loaded through the nose of SIA's Boeing 747-400F freighter aircraft." height="4013" width="6017" msid="106945838" hostid="261" sizebytes="719660"></div><p>The pallet was then loaded through the nose of SIA's Boeing 747-400F freighter aircraft. Like the reefer truck, the plane had to be pre-cooled one hour before boarding.</p><div type="image" title="Cargo personnel moving Le Le's crate into position on the aircraft." height="1080" width="1920" msid="106945842" hostid="261" sizebytes="152326"></div><p>The pallet was then locked in position on the aircraft before takeoff to reduce movement during the flight.</p><h2>Farewell little one</h2><div type="image" title="The nose of the aircraft closes as it gets ready for take-off." height="854" width="1280" msid="106945843" hostid="261" sizebytes="55740"></div><p>Le Le didn't travel alone — he was accompanied by a keeper and veterinarian from Singapore and a zookeeper from China.</p><p>The giant panda cub was also served a special in-flight meal during his journey — bamboo, bamboo shoots, fruit, pellets, and water.</p><p>SIA said in a press release on Wednesday that Le Le arrived safely in China on January 16. The panda cub is now being quarantined, and the China Conservation and Research Center<span> for the </span>Giant Panda<em> </em>will soon assign Le Le to a new, permanent home. </p>

Here's how Singapore Airlines airlifted a giant panda cub and sent it on its journey home to China

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12055324" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vietnam-airlines" source="Orion">Vietnam Airlines</keyword> to become the first carrier to operate regularly scheduled nonstop service from Vietnam to the US.</li><li>The long flights begin November 28, though the airline's CEO says the route will not be profitable anytime soon.</li></ul><p>After decades of interest in offering direct flights from Vietnam to the US, Vietnam Airlines is finally launching the first-ever regularly scheduled, nonstop passenger service from <keyword id="11963704" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ho-chi-minh-city" source="Orion">Ho Chi Minh City</keyword> to San Francisco.</p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/123155861065069/posts/4533601806687097/">In a post on its official Facebook page on Tuesday,</a> Vietnam Airlines revealed the historic flight will take off on November 28 using a <keyword id="12266095" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="boeing-787-9" source="Orion">Boeing 787-9</keyword> or <keyword id="12562107" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="airbus-a350" source="Orion">Airbus A350</keyword> <keyword id="11896919" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="aircraft" source="Orion">aircraft</keyword> and will operate twice-weekly. The airline did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.</p><p><a href="https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/companies/vietnam-airlines-direct-flight-to-us-takes-off-next-week-4386594.html">According to Vietnamese media outlet VnExpress</a>, CEO Le Hong Ha explained in a press conference in <keyword id="12562106" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hanoi" source="Orion">Hanoi</keyword> that the company plans to increase flight frequencies to daily once COVID-19 is stabilized.</p><div type="image" title="Vietnam Airlines CEO Le Hong Ha speaking in Hanoi on November 16" height="1208" width="1610" msid="87787488" hostid="261"></div><p>For travelers, the flight will be extremely long, with the eastbound journey taking 13 hours and 50 minutes and the westbound clocking in at 16 hours and 40 minutes. However, the flights would not fly full due to weight restrictions, leaving about 100 seats open.</p><p>At the time of publication, Vietnam's flights are not yet bookable, though, according to VnExpress, <a href="https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/companies/us-direct-flight-fare-around-1-000-4386837.html">Ha told reporters</a> that economy fares would start at around $1,000 roundtrip. Ha also explained that the route is not expected to make money for five to 10 years.</p><p>The decision to begin nonstop service between the two nations comes after years of discussions with US governing authorities. <a href="https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-announces-aviation-safety-rating-vietnam">After clearing Vietnam as a Category 1 country in 2019</a>, meaning the nation meets international standards of safety, the Federal Aviation Administration granted Vietnam Airlines permission to fly in the US. The airline held a ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday where it was awarded its foreign air carrier certificate from the FAA.</p><div type="image" title="Vietnam Airlines accepts foreign air carrier certificate from FAA in Hanoi on November 16" height="1281" width="1708" msid="87787489" hostid="261"></div><p>"We needed to prepare hundreds of kilograms worth of paperwork to meet the US requirements," Ha said at the press briefing.</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bamboo-airways-launches-vietnam-and-us-nonstop-flights-2021-9">Vietnam's planned service means it beat out Bamboo Airways</a>, another Vietnamese carrier that was aiming to become the first airline to offer regularly scheduled nonstop service between the countries. </p>

A Vietnamese airline is launching the first regular nonstop flights from Vietnam to the US

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12758521" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="korean-air" source="Orion">Korean Air</keyword> pushed back on the claim its plane was used to transport fake ballots last November. </li><li>The conspiracy theory prompted an unlikely attempt by Trump supporters to catch the plane.</li></ul><p>A Korean Air spokesperson described as "groundless and false" a conspiracy theory that one of its planes helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump.</p><p>The claim was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gosar-aide-tried-catch-plane-rumored-fake-votes-court-docs-2021-12?r=US&amp;IR=T">cited in legal documents quoted by The New York Times this week,</a> but first began circulating last November, after Trump's defeat in the US presidential election by Democrat Joe Biden. </p><p>It led to a small party of Trump supporters, including the chief of staff to GOP Rep. <keyword id="12381439" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="paul-gosar" source="Orion">Paul Gosar</keyword>'s, Tom Van Flein, to embark on an expedition to an airport near Phoenix, <keyword id="11907754" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="arizona" source="Orion">Arizona</keyword>, to intercept the plane, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gosar-aide-tried-catch-plane-rumored-fake-votes-court-docs-2021-12">as Insider reported</a>.</p><p>It resulted in a grainy video of a Korean Air jet, recorded on November 7, 2020 — but no proof of a stolen election.</p><p>No evidence of a planeload of fake votes was ever detected. But the incident illustrates the extraordinary lengths taken by Trump supporters determined to substantiate the former president's claim that the election was illegitimate.</p><p>In a statement to Insider, a spokesperson for Korean Air, the national carrier of South Korea, rejected the rumor as groundless. The spokesperson said a chartered Korean Airlines plane was present at the airport, but was not part of a plot to steal the election. </p><p>"The claim that the ballot fraud was transported by our chartered plane is groundless and false," said the spokesperson.</p><p>"Unauthorized people and items are unable to board Korean Air flights. We hereby confirm that the story has been fabricated."</p><p>The expedition to intercept the plane is described in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1243/171445/20210310120306935_20210310-115804-00001755-00001885.pdf">legal documents filed by voter Traci Burk</a>, who hoped to overturn the result of the election by taking her case to the US Supreme Court. It was instead thrown out. </p><p>According to the documents, independent journalist Ryan Hartwig received a tip about a cargo of fake votes that taken from plane at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport on election night.</p><p>On November the 7 the party set off to expose the plot. No evidence emerged to prove the claim, but the group took footage of a Korean Air plane and posted it on Hartwig's website. </p><p>Suspicions that a shipment of fake votes from Asia had helped steal victory from Trump continued to spread despite the lack of proof. </p><p>It cropped up in the the much-criticized review of votes in <a href="https://www.insider.com/fake-cyber-ninjas-arizona-audit-claims-trump-won-qanon-telegram-2021-9">Arizona's Maricopa County earlier this year by firm Cyber Ninjas</a>. Auditors there searched for traces of bamboo on ballots under the apparent belief that it could prove they were fake votes imported from Asia.</p><p>Trump and his close allies, including Gosar, have persisted with the election-fraud narrative despite the paucity of evidence to substantiate it. </p><p>Gosar's office has not responded to multiple requests for comment on the incident. </p>

Korean Air dismissed a claim that one of its planes was packed with fake votes and used to steal the 2020 election. 'The story has been fabricated.'

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