Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
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Laos' fifth international airport in Attapeu, known on Lao Airlines' ticket search-booking engine also as Attopeu, opens to commercial air traffic on 2 April 2015 when Lao Airlines launches its ATR72-500/-600 aircraft flight from Vientiane to Attapeu, one month ahead of the original planned completion of the airport.
On 2 April 2015, Lao Airlines flight QV331 departs from Vientiane for Attapeu at 2.40 pm and arrives in Attapeu at 4 pm. At 4.40 pm, flight QV332 leaves Attapeu for Vientiane and touches down in Vientiane at 7.05 pm. Lao Airlines will operate the new route on Thursdays, Saturdays and Tuesdays. International flights may later be launched to link Attapeu with Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Danang and Suvarnabhumi.
Attapeu International Airport in the Lao PDR city of Attapeu is located 600 kilometres southeast of Vientiane and was built at a sum of 36-million-US Dollars by Vietamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group. Besides ATR72, it can handle aircraft landings of Fokker 70, Fokker 100 and MA60. Upon completion, it will be wholly managed by the Lao Government.
The other international airports of Laos are in Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Pakse and Savannakhet.
Attapeu's tourist attractions include the 16th-century pagoda Ban Saysetthatthirath, ruins of the Kingdom of Champasak (1713-1904, a political model for the Angkor Empire, Sriwijaya Empire of Sumatra, Majapahit Empire of Java), three waterfalls on Xepain River and Attapeu pottery vases used to store rice wine.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
Laos' fifth international airport in Attapeu, known on Lao Airlines' ticket search-booking engine also as Attopeu, opens to commercial air traffic on 2 April 2015 when Lao Airlines launches its ATR72-500/-600 aircraft flight from Vientiane to Attapeu, one month ahead of the original planned completion of the airport.
On 2 April 2015, Lao Airlines flight QV331 departs from Vientiane for Attapeu at 2.40 pm and arrives in Attapeu at 4 pm. At 4.40 pm, flight QV332 leaves Attapeu for Vientiane and touches down in Vientiane at 7.05 pm. Lao Airlines will operate the new route on Thursdays, Saturdays and Tuesdays. International flights may later be launched to link Attapeu with Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Danang and Suvarnabhumi.
Attapeu International Airport in the Lao PDR city of Attapeu is located 600 kilometres southeast of Vientiane and was built at a sum of 36-million-US Dollars by Vietamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group. Besides ATR72, it can handle aircraft landings of Fokker 70, Fokker 100 and MA60. Upon completion, it will be wholly managed by the Lao Government.
The other international airports of Laos are in Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Pakse and Savannakhet.
Attapeu's tourist attractions include the 16th-century pagoda Ban Saysetthatthirath, ruins of the Kingdom of Champasak (1713-1904, a political model for the Angkor Empire, Sriwijaya Empire of Sumatra, Majapahit Empire of Java), three waterfalls on Xepain River and Attapeu pottery vases used to store rice wine.
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