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Vietnam Airlines 787-9 Review: can it beat Bamboo Airways on Hanoi–Saigon?

November 4, 2022

In this video we take the two-hour hop back from Hanoi to Ho Chi Min City but on the Vietnam Airlines 787-9 Dreamliner this time (aircraft swapped from the original A350). So we do a head-to-head comparison versus Bamboo Airways earlier in the day. Who comes out on top?

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