Cambodia Angkor to serve Sihanoukville

Cambodia Angkor Air will begin a domestic service between Siem Reap and Sihanoukville from 14 December, making it the first airline to serve this southern coastal town.

The carrier will operate three weekly services using ATR72 aircraft, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday departing Siem Reap at 1410. The return flight will depart Sihanoukville at 1550. The flight time will be one hour and 10 minutes.

The service will mark the first scheduled service to the airport since June 2007,  when a PMT Air aircraft crashed into a hillside on its approach. All commercial flights to the airport were halted for safety reasons.

The airport is 18 km out of town and has a 2,500 me

Cambodia Angkor is operating five daily flights between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap; three daily between Siem Reap and Ho Chi Minh City and twice daily between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City.

It was designated the national airline by the government after it entered into a partnership with Vietnam Airlines.

Source - ttrweekly