Tokyo, Japan, Oct 16, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - JAL will start operating direct charter flights from Japan to Siem Reap in Cambodia. Up until the end of this fiscal year, ending March 31 2008, JAL plans to operate between 10-15 round trip flights, starting with a flight departing Osaka (Kansai) on November 20, 2007. (Subject to government approval).The airline will operate direct flights to Siem Reap from Osaka (Kansai), Tokyo (Narita) and Nagoya (Chubu) using Boeing 767 aircraft. The aircraft will have a capacity of 200 passengers per flight, and the journey will only take from between 5 to 6 hours. The flights will only be sold as part of a holiday package offered by travel agents in Japan.
The number of Japanese travelers visiting Cambodia, location of the UNESCO World Heritage site Angkor Wat, has been increasing every year. Based on data from the Ministry of Tourism, Kingdom of Cambodia about 120,000 Japanese visited Cambodia in 2006.
Up until now there have been no direct scheduled flights from Japan to Siem Reap. Travelers have had to change flights in Bangkok or Ho Chi Minh, for example.
JAL plans to operate a total of 400 round trip charter flights this fiscal year. Between April and September this year, JAL has already operated around 225 round trip charter flights to such tourist destinations as Budapest and Prague in Central Europe, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia as well as Toronto and Montreal in Canada.
Responding to changes in Japanese tourism demand, JAL also started operating earlier this year for the first time direct charter flights to Dubrovnik, a Croatian resort in the Adriatic Sea, and Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands, called the 'necklace of the Pacific'.
6 comments:
Yay, more jobs are coming!!!
First, this`s not the figure of B767 but B747.
Second, more middle/lang haul aircraft to touch down in Siem Reap airport (app. 3 miles from Angkor) is big mistakes because they will demages Angkor Wat complex step by step, esp. by vibration of those aircrafts. This issue was raised in 1973 by Cambodian engeneers from France but no policians interested in it. Best resolution: extension the new airport nearby Phnom Krom.
Third, accepted to create more jobs but as Khmer we must regard to gother: 1) quick more jobs in order to destroy our old temples complex step by sted or 2) slow more jobs in order to maintain national symbol? My opinion is 2)
#2 is correct, but there is no stoping now. Everybody wants a piece of Angkor to make money and furtune. They will continue to use and abuse until it all gets used up and then done and gone for all.
Making an airport closer to Angkor is to make it much more easier for the customers at this time, but what they didn't really think is that those customer can just stop at Angkor and just be gone to some other places. They really don't have to visit Phnom Pehn or Sihanoulville or other Provinces. This is the other choise that the traveling agents did not put into their consideration. They are giving customers the choise to avoid visiting our Capital, especially or may be there is nothing to see in Phnom Pehn really?
Hopefully thing will change and more traffic will be promote from Phom Pehn instead.
Sorry, but number 2 is not correct. Human lifes worth more than stone. We are desperate, and I am sure our ancestors would understand. Furthermore, there is no evidence so far that show any deterioration of our Temple from the thousands plane that went in and out so far.
To 5:50 AM:
a)Talking about the profitability of airport for facilities, Phnom Krom is the best place for Siem Reap, but not for all Cambodians. The best place for Cambodia in the future is Kampong Chhnang. That relate to the same social distribution policy in the country.
b)For national interest, the Govt. must to show the transparency airline policy. The travel agencies have only beside impact for those decision.
"...The best place for Cambodia in the future is Kampong Chhnang...." - 7:03
Yes, in time, we'll get to it soon, one way or another.
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