China Eastern starts new route to Phnom Penh

Nov. 26, 2007 (China Knowledge) – China Eastern Airlines' Yunnan branch announced last week that China Eastern Airlines has opened a new route from Kunming, Yunnan Province to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The company also plans another new route from Kunming to Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City during the Spring Festival in 2008.

According to an official with Yunnan Branch of China Eastern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines officially opened the regular flights from Kunming to Phnom Penh. The four-hour flight is set to take off from Kunming, at 7:15 a.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays and arrive in Phnom Penh at 10:40 a.m. local time. It will leave Phnom Penh at 11:30 a.m. local time on the same day. The flights will stop over in the southern Chinese city of Nanning for 40 minutes.

Sources said that the new air flights will contribute to the prosperity of the tourism market and the bilateral economic exchanges between the two countries.

China Eastern Airlines opens new route to Phnom Penh

KUNMING, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- China Eastern Airlines, one of the country's largest carriers, has opened a new route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Since early November, three regular flights per week have flown to the southeast Asian nation's capital, and a CRJ-200 with a capacity of 50 passengers has been used for the new air service, said Wang Qian, a spokeswoman for the company's Yunnan branch in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Flights take off from Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, at 7:15 a.m. on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and arrive in Phnom Penh at 10:40 a.m. local time, she said.

Return flights leave Phnom Penh at 11:30 a.m. local time the same day, she said.

The flights make a stopover in the southern Chinese city of Nanning for 40 minutes.

"The new air service will help boost the travel market of Yunnan and Cambodia and also economic exchanges between the two countries," she said.