A minister said here on Sunday evening that Cambodia reported more than 4.5 million air travelers during the January-September period of 2024, up about 22 percent from 3.7 million over the same period in 2023.
Mao Havannall, minister in charge of Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, said 31 international and domestic airlines had operated flights, linking Cambodia to eight countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China, South Korea, India, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.
He disclosed the figures during the launch of direct flights between Cambodia’s Phnom Penh and Vietnam’s Hanoi, operated by Vietnam Airlines.
Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation’s Undersecretary of State and spokesperson Sinn Chanserey Vutha is confident that the Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (SAI), which was officially opened in November 2023, will help attract more international airlines and passengers to Cambodia.
“We hope the airport will attract new international airlines to operate direct flights to Siem Reap province, the home of the UNESCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park,” he told Xinhua.
Chanserey Vutha said that with a 3,600-meter runway, the SAI is a 4E-level international airport capable of handling the landing of almost all kinds of aircraft from across the world. Xinhua
Source: khmertimeskh
