Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Sihanouk International Airport on track for opening

Wednesday, 21 October 2009
eTravel Blackboard

Air traffic to Cambodia’s recently revamped Preah Sihanouk International Airport is on track to start from November, officials said last week.

“I went to check all the technical equipment last Friday” State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) Secretary of State Mao Havannal told the Phnom Penh Post on Tuesday.

“Everything is in place and complies with international standards” he said referring to the refurbishments completed by Societe Concessionnaire des Aeroports (SCA).

Mao Havannal said the launch of the airport would be presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen and top officials from France including French Prime Minister Nicholas Sarkozy.

The launch will see national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air offer chartered services to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap from Sihanoukville.

Soy Sokhan, SSCA undersecretary of state in charge of CAA, said the airline was still considering the feasibility of establishing regular flights on those routes.

“Firstly, we need to complete a market survey looking at the number of tourists, and contact with travel agents who book passengers on cruises to get an idea of potential demand,” he said.

According to Mao Havannal, Siem Reap Airways may be unable to fly from the airport as it has not registered any planes in Cambodia, a requirement for domestic operators to receive an Air Operator Certificate (AOC).

“I don’t know for sure if Siem Reap Airways will be able to fly or not” said Mao Havannal.

“It depends on the airline because we have already confirmed with them that if they want to resume their operations, they need to register an airplane [in Cambodia].

“It already completely complies with SSCA requirements and has satisfied concerns over its operations.”

SCA will announce its flight schedule for Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanouk international airport on October 21.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why the murder is named for the airport?

Anonymous said...

because his adopted son aka hun sen said so

Anonymous said...

next, they will burry him on the air runway.

Anonymous said...

All you guys above. Wait til you become presidents of the republic of Cambodia then you can rename the airport using your own names. OK?

Anonymous said...

To the dumbest top three, the King was murderer, but Youn were their heros.

Yeahh presidents in their toilets.

Anonymous said...

Without the Vietnamese People help Pol Pot would still kill Cambodian People.

What do Cambodian People;
Complain

Work is not good
Complain

start to build up your country and show Foreigners you can do it.
If you run away to Long Beach, Short Beach, Lazy Beach or other places
of course
foreigners will look down on you!

Anonymous said...

1:41pm your idea is stupid!!! anyone would live anywhere that give them the opputunity of a better life cambodian population live oversea only a small fraction compare to other nationality i guese much less than your nationlity who live oversea? then would you look down on your people too? don't look at a few dead tree and judge a whole jungle be wise so i wouldn't call you a dumn ass. ohhh....by the way if you not have anything nice to say you are not welcome here!!!

Anonymous said...

i think all cambodian airports are still small in scale in comparison to other worldly airports out there. i think cambodia should have at least one airport with internation standard like 3500 meters runway at least and big enough and modern enough to accommodate long haul international flights direct from the USA, japan, the EU country, australia, etc... cambodia should stop depend on stop over flight to thailand, etc... there ought to be all direct flight to and from cambodia from anywhere on the planet, really. it's about time to upgrade cambodia airport for this convenient purpose, really!

Anonymous said...

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