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Oct 12, 2016 (newstodate): Earlier plans for Lithuania's Small Planet Airlines Group to establish a new subsidiary in Thailand have been shelved.
In an interview by a Cambodian media, Steve Kim, Small Planet Airlines CCO in charge of the operations in Cambodia, says that the plans for a Thai AOC have been scrapped due to the sustained uncertainties in Thailand's civil aviation.
Instead, Small Planet Airlines Group will seek a Cambodian AOC, and the application process is already advancing with hopes for a successful completion in 2017.
Based at Phnom Penh, Small Planet Airlines Cambodia will then be offering ACMI as well as charter flights to destinations in South Korea and China.
Small Planet Airlines first entered the Cambodian market in winter 2014 under a five-year contract with the Cambodian airline Sky Angkor, deploying four Airbus A320 aircraft on routes from Siam Reap to various destinations in China and South Korea.
Since 2014 the carrier has built up business with customers in Asia to balance the seasonal variations in the European traffic, starting with a cooperation with Bhutan Airlines flying passengers from Bangkok to Paro in Bhutan, followed by the contract with Sky Angkor, and in 2015 the establishment of a representative office in Bangkok, Thailand.
In an interview by a Cambodian media, Steve Kim, Small Planet Airlines CCO in charge of the operations in Cambodia, says that the plans for a Thai AOC have been scrapped due to the sustained uncertainties in Thailand's civil aviation.
Instead, Small Planet Airlines Group will seek a Cambodian AOC, and the application process is already advancing with hopes for a successful completion in 2017.
Based at Phnom Penh, Small Planet Airlines Cambodia will then be offering ACMI as well as charter flights to destinations in South Korea and China.
Small Planet Airlines first entered the Cambodian market in winter 2014 under a five-year contract with the Cambodian airline Sky Angkor, deploying four Airbus A320 aircraft on routes from Siam Reap to various destinations in China and South Korea.
Since 2014 the carrier has built up business with customers in Asia to balance the seasonal variations in the European traffic, starting with a cooperation with Bhutan Airlines flying passengers from Bangkok to Paro in Bhutan, followed by the contract with Sky Angkor, and in 2015 the establishment of a representative office in Bangkok, Thailand.