16 September 2014
Cambodia's
aviation authority yesterday approved operations for the first of three Chinese
market-focused airlines, all of which are expected to take to the skies by the
end of the year.
The State
Secretariat of Civil Aviation granted an Airline Operations Certificate (AOC)
to Apsara International Air (AIA) owned jointly by private Chinese and
Cambodian investors after a more than yearlong application process. Yesterday’s
SSCA approval of AIA is only the beginning, according to Chief Flight Operations
Inspector at the SSCA, who confirmed that two more approvals would be made by
December. “[B]oth Bassaka Air and Bayon Airlines will be approved by the end of
the year also.”
Bassaka
Air, a startup that has partnered with travel agency China International Travel
Services, aims to commence flights from Phnom Penh to China with two Airbus
A320s as early as this month.
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