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.
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.
