Cambodia Angkor Air now serves the world’s second busiest airport

On 16 December the Cambodian carrier began three times weekly flights between Siem Reap (REP) and Beijing (PEK). The 3,215-kilometre route will be flown by the airline’s A320s and faces direct competition from Sky Angkor Airlines’s three times weekly service. Cambodia Angkor Air now operates a total of 19 weekly flights between Cambodia and five airports in China. It already serves Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanning and Shanghai from Siem Reap. Between Cambodia and China the carrier currently accounts for 16% of weekly seat capacity, beaten only by China Southern Airlines’ 27% share. A total of 10 carriers link the two countries, of which eight are based in China. These eight carriers account for 71% of the market at present.

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Cambodia Angkor Air adds Vietnam connections

New flights planned to Ho Chi Minh City, Danang and Hanoi

Written by:Mark Elliott

Cambodia Angkor Air is part-owned by Vietnam Airlines

Cambodia Angkor Air will expand its international network this year, with the launch of three new routes to neighbouring Vietnam.

The national carrier, which is part-owned by Vietnam Airlines, is planning to launch new flights connecting the Cambodian coastal city of Sihanoukville with Ho Chi Minh City, and Siem Reap with Danang and Hanoi.

The new Sihanoukville-HCMC route will commence on 17 June 2016, operating six times a week. This will make Cambodia Angkor Air the first airline to connect these two cities.

Then on 1 July, the airline will start flying three times a week between Siem Reap and Danang. Both these routes will be operated using Cambodia Angkor Air’s ATR 72 turboprop aircraft.

And later in 2016, Cambodia Angkor Air plans to launch a new service linking Siem Reap with Hanoi.
These new routes will complement the airline’s existing Vietnamese services linking Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with HCMC, and Phnom Penh with Hanoi.

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Cambodia Angkor Air on 17 April introduced a new route between Phnom Penh (PNH) and Seoul Incheon

the 3,597-kilometre route will be served four times weekly by the carrier’s A321s and will go head-to-head with Asiana Airlines and Korean Air who both operate the route on a daily basis. Flights depart Phnom Penh at 00:25 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays arriving in Seoul at 07:35. The return flight departs Seoul at 11:35 arriving back in Cambodia at 15:15. This new route is the airline’s fifth from Phnom Penh and is easily its longest route to date, beating the 2,789-kilometre route to Shanghai.

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