Aviation Nixes VN Air Plans

The State Secretariat for Civil Av­iation and the Council of Min­isters have said Vietnam Airlines cannot have a daily flight from Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City, an aviation official said Thursday.

Mea­s­keth Caimirane, the un­der­secretary of state for the State Sec­retariat of Civil Aviation, cited an exclusive arrangement with Bangkok Airways for all international flights to Siem Reap as the reason.

A spokes­man in Vietnam Air­line’s Phnom Penh offices said he had not heard of the decision.

The government signed a contract with Dumez-GTM, the consortium renovating and managing Pochentong, that says the airport will be Cambodia’s only in­ternational gateway until 2005.

But in September, the government permitted Bangkok Air­ways to fly direct flights between Bangkok and Siem Reap.

In March, Vietnam Airlines flew four trial charter flights and said they wanted to begin daily service on April 1.

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