Vietnam Airlines to resume flights between Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos

In a positive development for the regional tourism industry, Vietnam Airlines announced that it will resume its Hanoi-Luang Prabang-Siem Reap route on July 1. The route was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it will now be restarted with three weekly flights.

The flight connecting three countries will depart three times per week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The number of flights will increase to five per week from October 30.

“We will restore the Hanoi (Vietnam)-Luang Prabang (Laos)-Siem Reap (Cambodia) route from July 1. The flight frequency initially will be thrice a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and will increase to five weekly flights from October 30,” a Vietnam Airlines spokesperson told Khmer Times yesterday.

The airline is also running seven flights per week on another trans-Indochina route that connects Hanoi, Vientiane (Laos), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

“We first started to operate flights to Siem Reap in 2000. In 2019, we transported 400,000 passengers on trans-Indochina routes, which include

Hanoi-Luang Prabang-Siem Reap, and Hanoi-Vientiane-PhnomPenh-Ho Chi Minh City,” the spokesperson added.

Meanwhile, a top official at Cambodia Airports said that there was a 20 percent increase in the number of passengers travelling to Phnom Penh this year.

“The number of passengers travelling to Phnom Penh has grown strongly this year, up over 20 percent since January. The busiest destinations this month have been Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. Singapore and Seoul are also showing strong growth, as connecting passengers from across the world travel to Cambodia,” Stephen King, Chief Commercial Officer, Cambodia Airports, told Khmer Times yesterday.

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