Direct Japan Flights Begin Tomorrow

The first direct flight from Tokyo’s Narita Airport is expected to arrive at 3:10pm tomorrow, kicking off the new daily direct flight service between Cambodia and Japan. The long-heralded service will be operated by Japan’s national All Nippon Airways (ANA), and comes on the back of Cambodia’s continued economic growth, ANA’s public relations department wrote in an email to Khmer Times yesterday.
 

“Our first flight will arrive at Phnom Penh on September 1. The Cambodian economy is growing and the world, not only Japan, eyes Cambodia as potential market. We consider this is a good timing to launch our direct flights,” the email states. Sinn Chansereyvutha, spokesman for the Secretariat of State for Civil Aviation explained that ANA would use Boeing 787 planes, which can carry 300 passengers, although for the inaugural flight there would be 280 people on board.
 

“They feel that we have good economic growth and political stability and that’s why they thought it is the right time for them to come. This proves their trust in our country,” he said, adding that the new service would significantly cut flight time and the need to transfer. Yuji Kumamaru, Japan’s ambassador to Cambodia, called the long-awaited resumption in direct flights – an earlier service was stopped in 2009 – a “dream come true.”

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