Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Three out of nine Cambodian airlines have already ceased operations. They are Cambodia Bayon Airlines, KC International Airlines and Small Planet Airlines Cambodia. Another airline with only two aircraft, Bassaka Air, is struggling to be airborne.
Cambodia Bayon Airlines, which reduced its flight network to a domestic route linking Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville in January 2019, has filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, after a stake of 24 per cent in its parent airline company Joy Air was bought over by Tianjin-based Okay Airways Company Limited and Xi'an-based Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) withdrew its investment from the Cambodian subsidiary.
KC International Airlines, or KC Air in short, has ceased operations in May 2019 and its only aircraft was transferred to Lanmei Airlines.
Small Planet Airlines Cambodia has gone into receivership after its Lithuanian parent company Small Planet Airlines has closed down its associate in Germany.
Bassaka Air has cancelled scheduled regular flights to Macau and Siem Reap in early 2019 and all its charter flights to Macau, Guiyang, Changsha, Hangzhou and Qingdao remain ad hoc amidst fierce competition from Lanmei Airlines, JC International Airlines, Skywings Asia Airlines, Cambodia Airways and Cambodia Angkor Air in the Cambodia - China travel market.
The pictures in this update are in tribute to these Cambodian airlines that have flown regularly in the Cambodian skies from 2014 to 2019 (Cambodia Bayon Airlines, Bassaka Air), from 2017 to 2018 (Small Planet Airlines Cambodia) and from February to May 2019 (KC Air).
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Three out of nine Cambodian airlines have already ceased operations. They are Cambodia Bayon Airlines, KC International Airlines and Small Planet Airlines Cambodia. Another airline with only two aircraft, Bassaka Air, is struggling to be airborne.
Cambodia Bayon Airlines, which reduced its flight network to a domestic route linking Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville in January 2019, has filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, after a stake of 24 per cent in its parent airline company Joy Air was bought over by Tianjin-based Okay Airways Company Limited and Xi'an-based Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) withdrew its investment from the Cambodian subsidiary.
KC International Airlines, or KC Air in short, has ceased operations in May 2019 and its only aircraft was transferred to Lanmei Airlines.
Small Planet Airlines Cambodia has gone into receivership after its Lithuanian parent company Small Planet Airlines has closed down its associate in Germany.
Bassaka Air has cancelled scheduled regular flights to Macau and Siem Reap in early 2019 and all its charter flights to Macau, Guiyang, Changsha, Hangzhou and Qingdao remain ad hoc amidst fierce competition from Lanmei Airlines, JC International Airlines, Skywings Asia Airlines, Cambodia Airways and Cambodia Angkor Air in the Cambodia - China travel market.
The pictures in this update are in tribute to these Cambodian airlines that have flown regularly in the Cambodian skies from 2014 to 2019 (Cambodia Bayon Airlines, Bassaka Air), from 2017 to 2018 (Small Planet Airlines Cambodia) and from February to May 2019 (KC Air).
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