Cambodia Angkor Air Launches Regular Flights to Guangzhou City

Cambodia (AKP) - Cambodia Angkor Air, the national carrier of Cambodia, began yesterday regular flights to Guangzhou City of Guangdong province, China.

H.E. Tekret Samrach, Board Chairman of the Cambodia Angkor Air, said the launching was aimed at attracting more Chinese tourists and businessmen.

Cambodia Angkor Air will flight from Siem Reap province, home to Angkor temples, to Guangzhou by using Airbus A321 with 176 seats, he added.

The Chinese ranked third on the list of foreign visitors to Cambodia after the Vietnamese and the South Koreans. According to a data, during the first seven months of this year, some 267,500 Chinese tourists had visited the Kingdom, an increase by 49 percent if compared to the same period last year.

The Cambodia Angkor Air officially launched its operations in July 2009 and currently, the airline has two ATR-72 aircraft and three Airbus 321 planes. It is operating domestic flights as well as international flights to neighboring countries such as Vietnam and Thailand.