Monday 8 February 2016

Cambodia airline launches Southeast Asia's first non-stop chartered flight from Lanzhou

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Sky Angkor Airlines, a private Cambodian-Korean joint venture airline formerly known as Skywings Asia Airlines before 1 December 2014, has launched Southeast Asia's first non-stop chartered flight from Lanzhou to Siem Reap on 4 February 2016 and will continue to fly direct from Lanzhou to Siem Reap on 9 February, 14 February and 19 February 2016.

The first Siem Reap-Lanzhou flight service is opened on 20 January 2016. On this day, Sky Angkor Airlines flight ZA4319 departs from Siem Reap for Lanzhou at 1 pm, arrives in Lanzhou at 5.50 pm before leaving Lanzhou on 4 February 2016 for Siem Reap at 6.50 pm under flight ZA4329 and touching down in Siem Reap at 10.10 pm.

According to Sky Angkor Airlines, the other outbound flights from Siem Reap to Lanzhou were performed on 25 January and 30 January 2016.

The new charter flights to Lanzhou are operated by Sky Angkor Airlines' Airbus A320 aircraft (registered XU-708). 

Sky Angkor Airlines plans to use the A320 aircraft on future charter flights from Siem Reap to Dalian, Wuxi, Nanchang, Urumqi and Xining without stopovers in other Chinese cities or Incheon. Currently, the carrier only operates regular scheduled flights from Siem Reap to Incheon, Busan and Hanoi, and regular winter charter flights to Nanning, Wuhan, Chengdu and Guiyang. It acquired its first Airbus A321 in September 2015 which is utilized on short-haul flights from Siem Reap to Hanoi and China.

The first airline to fly direct on a scheduled basis from Southeast Asia to Lanzhou is Spring Airlines, operating a scheduled once-weekly flight every Sunday from Suvarnabhumi to Lanzhou. China Eastern Airlines flies from Singapore to Lanzhou with a stopover in Kunming.

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