Transport infrastructure and facilities

Airports and air travel

Government signs an agreement to close the old Siem Reap International Airport

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on July 28, held a signing ceremony for the compensation agreement to close the current Siem Reap International Airport before the opening of the new international airport with Société Concessionnaire de l’Aéroport (SCA) and Angkor International Airport Investment (Cambodia) ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501333303/government-signs-an-agreement-to-close-the-old-siem-reap-international-airport/

Siem Reap Angkor International Airport to officially open on Oct. 16, confirms SSCA

Newly-constructed Siem Reap Angkor International Airport is scheduled to put into official use on Oct. 16, 2023 onwards to welcome more local and international tourists to the Kingdom of Cambodia, especially to Siem Reap cultural province. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501332467/siem-reap-angkor-international-airport-to-officially-open-on-oct-16-confirms-ssca/

Chinese-invested airport in Cambodia’s tourist hub to commence operations in October

Chinese-invested Siem Reap Angkor International Airport in northwest Cambodia’s Siem Reap province will commence operations in October, said a statement from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation on Thursday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501332814/chinese-invested-airport-in-cambodias-tourist-hub-to-commence-operations-in-october/

New Siem Reap airport to facilitate more direct flights

The Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (SAI) is set to begin its operation on October 16 and the new airport can receive huge aircraft from the United States and Europe, facilitating direct flights for international tourists visiting the Kingdom of Wonder, a press release by ...

Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501327204/new-siem-reap-airport-to-facilitate-more-direct-flights/

Premium seaplane slated for take-off late-2023 to early-2024

Cambodia’s first premium seaplane service is slated to start operations in late-2023 to early-2024, initially connecting Phnom Penh with locations within a 1.5-hour flying time. ...

Marissa Carruthers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-premium-seaplane-slated-for-take-off-late-2023-to-early-2024

Construction of Techo International Airport over 50 percent completed

The construction of Techo International Airport is now over 50 percent complete for the first phase and is expected to put into operation in 2025. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501322882/construction-of-techo-international-airport-over-50-percent-completed/

Int’l airports welcome 2.48M passengers in H1

The international airports in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Sihanoukville welcomed a combined 2.48 million passengers in the first half of this year, a staggering 270 percent increase over the same period in 2022, a senior official at the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation said. ...

Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501321302/intl-airports-welcome-2-48m-passengers-in-h1/

Kandal residents protest new land filling near airport development

Kandal village residents protested on Thursday against the filling in of land near their homes at the $1.5 billion airport development project, with a company official saying they were only filling the homes of three people who had agreed to leave the site. ...

Runn Sreydeth and Khuon Narim
https://cambojanews.com/kandal-residents-protest-new-land-filling-near-airport-development/

Cambodia seeks partners for planned Mondulkiri airport

Cambodia is looking for partners for the development of a planned airport in Mondulkiri province south of Sen Monorom town after PowerChina International Group Ltd (PIG) withdrew during the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent negotiations with other foreign companies fell through, according to a senior civil ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-seeks-partners-planned-mondulkiri-airport

Kingdom seeks partners for planned Mondulkiri airport

Cambodia is looking for partners for the development of a planned airport in Mondulkiri province south of Sen Monorom town after PowerChina International Group Ltd (PIG) withdrew during the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent negotiations with other foreign companies fell through, according to a senior civil ...

Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-seeks-partners-planned-mondulkiri-airport

Cambodia airports receive 481,582 foreign tourists in Q1

Cambodia’s three international airports welcomed 481,582 foreign tourists in the first quarter of 2023, a staggering 453 percent increase from the same period in 2022. ...

Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501302669/cambodia-airports-receive-481582-foreign-tourists-in-q1/

New smart airport aims to drive more tourists into Siem Reap

Cambodia Angkor Air and Trip.com Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build a smart airport in Siem Reap, the global travel service provider said in a news release. ...

Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-siem-reap-new-smart-airport

Koh Kong int’l airport not set for trial flights: governor

Koh Kong provincial governor Mithona Phouthong has warned that proposed flight trials at the province’s Dara Sakor International Airport could possibly be postponed as the developers need more time to complete construction and address some remaining shortcomings. ...

Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/koh-kong-intl-airport-not-set-trial-flights-governor

SSCA eyes 300 weekly China flights

Cambodia and China appear to be pressing ahead with plans to raise the number of direct commercial flights between them to at least 300 per week, which private sector operators envisage will underpin strong growth in tourist flows from the Asian economic powerhouse. ...

May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssca-eyes-300-weekly-china-flights

Kandal airport developer begins direct negotiations with households seeking better compensation

Families facing eviction to make way for a $1.5 billion airport under construction in Kandal province continue to contest the compensation being offered by the project’s developer. This week the company began directly negotiating with some of the more than 60 families who had still ...

Sorn Sarath and Runn Sreydeth
https://cambojanews.com/kandal-airport-developer-begins-direct-negotiations-with-households-seeking-better-compensation/

Cambodia records 1.26 million air passengers in Q1

Cambodia reported 1.26 million air travelers during the first quarter of 2023, up 549 percent from only 195,000 passengers over the same period last year, said the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation’s report released on Wednesday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501276387/cambodia-records-1-26-million-air-passengers-in-q1/

Cambodia operates 494 flights a week

Cambodia received and operated 494 flights per week at its three airports in the first three months of this year, according to the preliminary data from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA)—Cambodia’s regulatory and development agency for civil aviation activity and infrastructure. ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501271800/cambodia-operates-494-flights-a-week/

Spending on capital’s new airport nears $700M: SSCA

Nearly $700 million has been spent on the new $1.5 billion Techo International Airport (TIA), the main construction work on which has reached 46 per cent as of March 31, motivated by positive tourism growth, according to a senior civil aviation official. ...

Rann Reuy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/spending-capitals-new-airport-nears-700m-ssca

Ratanakiri governor seeks airport investment

Ratanakiri provincial officials have appealed to foreign investors to build a new airport on a 1,400-hectare plot of land in Lumphat district to attract tourism ...

Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-ratanakiri-governor-seeks-airport-investment

Cambodia Airways launches Phnom Penh-Beijing direct flight

Cambodia Airways has launched its first direct flight between Phnom Penh and Beijing, aiming to meet rising travel demand between the two destinations, the airline operator said in a press release on Tuesday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501264238/cambodia-airways-launches-phnom-penh-beijing-direct-flight/

New International Airport in Siem Reap province project 90 percent complete

Construction of the Angkor Siem Reap International Airport is now 90 percent complete as the construction firm is accelerating its work so that the official launch can be held as planned in October. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501264311/new-international-airport-in-siem-reap-province-project-90-percent-complete/

Siem Reap airport to close after new one opens

After the new Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI) opens in October, the existing complex serving the northwestern province will be “completely closed”, according to State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) spokesman Sin Chansereyvutha. ...

May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/siem-reap-airport-close-after-new-one-opens

June target for trial operation of Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport

The construction of Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport has been now 86 percent complete, and the new airport in Siem Reap province is expected to be put into trial use in June this year and into official operation by October. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501250489/june-target-for-trial-operation-of-siem-reap-angkor-international-airport/

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