Troubles for Tonlesap Air

About two months after Phnom Penh-based Tonlesap Airlines suspended its chartered flights, the local carrier’s future seems as cloudy as ever.

Vann Chanty, the director of air transport with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, said yesterday that the airline had not resumed operations and that he didn’t know when the company’s planes will start taking off again. …

According to an employee of the Civil Aeronautics Administration of Taiwan, who declined to be named because she was not authorised to speak to the media, Tonlesap owes money in landing fees to the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. …

Earlier this month, the Taipei Times reported the Taoyuan International Airport Corporation as confirming that Tonlesap owes the airport about NT$1.66 million ($55,668) in landing fees. The report said the airline had not paid on time since December last year, and despite sending out notices and fining the airline for late payment, there was no response. …

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