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Scheduled passenger airlines operating to Phnom Penh (KTI), Siem Reap (SAI), and Sihanoukville (KOS). Updated 18 October 2026.
27
Total Airlines
Active scheduled service
21
Phnom Penh (KTI)
Largest hub
11
Siem Reap (SAI)
▲ Rebuilding
6
Sihanoukville (KOS)
Seasonal + limited
4
Domestic Carriers
▲ +1 in 2025
21
International
Regularly scheduled
⚠️ About this list: Airline schedules change frequently. This list is compiled from multiple sources including Wikipedia, official airport websites, and route databases. Some points to keep in mind:
- Codeshares. Many airlines listed at airports are codeshare or interline partners that don't actually fly their own planes to Cambodia. Air Canada, Air France, Finnair, Alaska Airlines, and JetBlue appear on the official Phnom Penh airport site but do not operate their own flights to Cambodia — they codeshare with partner airlines.
- Seasonal. Some routes only operate part of the year. TUI Airways (KOS) and Ruili Airlines (KOS) are seasonal. Turkish Airlines has reduced frequency in off-peak.
- Suspensions. IndiGo (Kolkata → Siem Reap) is suspended July–September 2026 but still listed as an active route. Airlines pause and restart routes regularly.
- "Hardly fly." Myanmar Airways International and PAL Express operate very limited schedules — sometimes only 1–2 flights per week. They're included but noted.
- New entrants. AirAsia Cambodia launched in 2025 and is still building its network. Routes may be added or dropped.
Visibility:
Domestic Regional Long-haul Low-cost Seasonal Limited schedule
Cambodia-Based Carriers
| Airline |
KTI |
SAI |
KOS |
Notes |
| Air Cambodia | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Domestic National carrier, all 3 airports |
| Cambodia Airways | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Domestic + China routes |
| AirAsia Cambodia | ✓ | ✓ | | Domestic LCC Launched 2025, still building network |
| Sky Angkor Airlines | ✓ | | ✓ | Limited Charter + scheduled mix |
Regularly Scheduled International Carriers
| Airline |
KTI |
SAI |
KOS |
Notes |
| Bangkok Airways | ✓ | ✓ | | Regional Via Bangkok (BKK) |
| Cathay Pacific | ✓ | | | Regional Via Hong Kong |
| China Airlines | ✓ | | | Long-haul Via Taipei (TPE) |
| China Eastern | ✓ | | | Via Shanghai/Kunming |
| China Southern | ✓ | | | Via Guangzhou |
| Emirates | ✓ | ✓ | | Long-haul Via Dubai/Bangkok |
| EVA Air | ✓ | | | Long-haul Via Taipei (TPE) |
| Korean Air | ✓ | | | Long-haul Via Seoul (ICN) |
| Malaysia Airlines | ✓ | | | Regional Via Kuala Lumpur |
| Qatar Airways | ✓ | | | Long-haul Via Doha |
| Shenzhen Airlines | ✓ | | | Via Shenzhen |
| Singapore Airlines | ✓ | ✓ | | Long-haul Via Singapore |
| Thai Airways | ✓ | ✓ | | Regional Via Bangkok (BKK) |
| Turkish Airlines | ✓ | | | Long-haul Via Istanbul, reduced in off-peak |
| Vietnam Airlines | ✓ | ✓ | | Regional Via Hanoi/HCMC |
| XiamenAir | ✓ | | | Via Xiamen |
| Myanmar Airways International | ✓ | | | Regional Via Yangon — evidenced on PNH board (8M 402D) |
| Ruili Airlines | | | ✓ | Chinese regional — Wuxi sector, evidenced on KOS board (DR 5032) |
Low-Cost & Budget Carriers
| Airline |
KTI |
SAI |
KOS |
Notes |
| Spring Airlines | ✓ | | | LCC Chinese budget, multiple cities |
| Thai AirAsia | ✓ | ✓ | | LCC Via Bangkok (DMK) |
| Thai VietJet | ✓ | | | LCC Via Bangkok |
| VietJet Air | | ✓ | | LCC Via Hanoi/HCMC |
| AirAsia (Malaysia) | | | ✓ | LCC Kuala Lumpur → KOS |
Seasonal / Limited / Suspended
| Airline |
KTI |
SAI |
KOS |
Notes |
| Myanmar Airways Intl | ✓ | | | Limited 1–2 flights/week, schedule unreliable |
| PAL Express | ✓ | | | Limited Very limited schedule, via Manila |
| TUI Airways | | | ✓ | Seasonal Charter, European tour operators |
| Ruili Airlines | | | ✓ | Seasonal Chinese carrier, seasonal |
| IndiGo | | Suspended | | Limited Kolkata route paused Jul–Sep 2026 |
Total: 27 airlines with active scheduled service to Cambodia
Phnom Penh (KTI): 22 airlines · Siem Reap (SAI): 11 airlines · Sihanoukville (KOS): 6 airlines
(Not counting codeshare-only partners, seasonal-only, or suspended. Myanmar Airways International and Ruili Airlines added on board evidence, 20 Sep.)
Catchment Summary
| Region | Airlines | Key Hubs |
|---|
| Domestic | Air Cambodia, Cambodia Airways, AirAsia Cambodia, Sky Angkor Airlines | KTI ↔ SAI ↔ KOS |
| ASEAN | Bangkok Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Vietnam Airlines, Thai AirAsia, Thai VietJet, VietJet Air, AirAsia, Myanmar Airways Intl, PAL Express | BKK, SIN, KUL, HAN, SGN, DMK, MNL |
| Greater China | China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, EVA Air, Shenzhen Airlines, Spring Airlines, XiamenAir, Cathay Pacific, Ruili Airlines | TPE, PVG, CAN, HKG, SZX, XMN |
| Middle East / Europe | Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, TUI Airways | DXB, DOH, IST, various seasonal |
| Northeast Asia | Korean Air | ICN |
Route Pricing Intelligence
✈️ Route pricing snapshot — 18 October 2026
- How to read this: the same two sets as last week, and they are not one table. The Siem Reap routes returned carrier fares for a November 2026 departure, quoted in euros on each airline’s own site. The Phnom Penh routes returned no carrier fare widget again, so those lines come from an indicative booking search for a 30 November 2026 departure, quoted in US dollars, one-way in economy. Both windows match last week’s, so the week-on-week lines below are like-for-like rather than a window effect. Prices move daily.
- Siem Reap → Bangkok: €192–464. Thai AirAsia now prices the nonstop at €192 — it showed a timing without a fare last week — with Cambodia Airways at €221, Bangkok Airways €303 and Thai Airways €464, up from €418. The cheapest line changed hands without either of the two comparable fares moving much.
- Siem Reap → Ho Chi Minh City: €236–647. Vietnam Airlines nonstop from €236; Thai Airways €509 and Bangkok Airways €647 both price through one stop. Added to the pricing set this cycle — it is a daily pair in the schedule and the shortest international hop out of Siem Reap.
- Siem Reap → Singapore and Siem Reap → Kuala Lumpur: neither returned a usable fare this cycle, so both are left out rather than carried forward from last week (€407 and €349 on the 11 October page). Both pairs are still in the schedule, both every day.
- Phnom Penh → Bangkok: US$80–258. Nonstop from US$80 (Thai VietJet, VZ721 into Suvarnabhumi), Thai AirAsia US$91 into Don Mueang, Cambodia Airways US$105 and Bangkok Airways US$139. Every option returned on this pair was nonstop.
- Phnom Penh → Singapore: US$118–264. Emirates still holds the low end at US$118 on a 2h00 nonstop — a fifth-freedom seat on its Phnom Penh–Singapore leg — and nothing else under US$184 avoids a connection through Kuala Lumpur. Last week the same line read US$118–225.
- Phnom Penh → Kuala Lumpur: US$174–257. Malaysia Airlines nonstop from US$174 on a 1h50 block. Last week Cambodia Airways priced the nonstop at US$133; it does not appear as the cheapest option this cycle, so the pair’s low end has moved up.
- Phnom Penh → Seoul: US$201–294. Cheapest overall is US$201 through Da Nang; the nonstops are Sky Angkor at US$240 and Korean Air at US$271, against US$265 and US$272 last week.
- Phnom Penh → Hong Kong: US$184–297, nonstop from US$220 on a 2h45 block. Air Cambodia’s own Hong Kong resumption is now filed for 21 December, not 25 October, so the nonstop capacity on this pair this winter is the incumbent carriers’.
- Phnom Penh → Ho Chi Minh City: US$133–196. Air Cambodia nonstop from US$133 (K6818 late evening, K6812 morning) and Vietnam Airlines from US$159. Last week the pair opened at US$119.
- What sits behind the fares: Air Cambodia’s 11 October winter filing adds Phnom Penh–Vientiane, Phnom Penh–Haikou and Sanya–Vladivostok, and lifts Guangzhou to 14 weekly and Phu Quoc to 7 weekly from 25 October. None of those points shows up in this week’s fare quotes yet, so the capacity being added for winter is not yet visible in what the search returns.
Indicative fares from 30 November 2026 — subject to change · search results, 18 Oct 2026 · Siem Reap rows in € (carrier sites, November 2026) · Phnom Penh rows in US$, one-way economy
🛬 Actual Flight Movements — Airport Boards (18 Oct 2026)
What the airport arrivals and departures boards listed on 18 October — Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, including the Siem Reap sectors filed from those boards. The boards carry a rolling multi-day listing (18–20 October), so treat the counts as the board's own window rather than one calendar day. This is the operated picture: it shows codeshares and sector patterns the fare-search data misses.
| Airport | Sector | Movements in snapshot | Carriers seen |
|---|
| PNH | Guangzhou (CAN) | 21 | Air Cambodia, Cambodia Airways, China Southern Airlines, Spring Airlines, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Suvarnabhumi (BKK) | 18 | Air Cambodia, Bangkok Airways, Cambodia Airways, Etihad Airways, Philippine Airlines, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, VietJet Air |
| PNH | Kuala Lumpur (KUL) | 17 | AirAsia Cambodia, Cambodia Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways |
| PNH | Singapore (SIN) | 12 | Emirates, Singapore Airlines |
| PNH | Ho Chi Minh (SGN) | 11 | Air Cambodia, Qatar Airways, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Hong Kong (HKG) | 9 | Cambodia Airways, Cathay Pacific |
| PNH | Siem Reap (SAI) | 9 | Air Cambodia, Cambodia Airways, Etihad Airways, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Incheon (ICN) | 7 | Korean Air, Sky Angkor Airlines |
| PNH | Shanghai (PVG) | 6 | China Eastern Airlines, Spring Airlines |
| PNH | Hanoi (HAN) | 5 | Air Cambodia, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Taipei (TPE) | 4 | China Airlines, EVA Air |
| PNH | Shenzhen (SZX) | 4 | Air China, Cambodia Airways, Shenzhen Airlines |
| KOS | Siem Reap (SAI) | 3 | Air Cambodia |
| KOS | Kuala Lumpur (KUL) | 3 | Air Asia, Air Asia Cambodia |
| PNH | Kunming (KMG) | 3 | China Eastern Airlines |
| PNH | Danang (DAD) | 3 | Air Cambodia, Cambodia Airways, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Vientiane (VTE) | 3 | Air Cambodia, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Xiamen (XMN) | 3 | Xiamen Airlines |
| PNH | Don Mueang (DMK) | 3 | Thai AirAsia |
| PNH | Chongqing (CKG) | 3 | Cambodia Airways, Xiamen Airlines |
| KOS | Ho Chi Minh (SGN) | 2 | Air Cambodia |
| PNH | Beijing (PEK) | 2 | Air China |
| PNH | Fuzhou (FOC) | 2 | Air Cambodia, Vietnam Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
| PNH | Phu Quoc (PQC) | 2 | Air Cambodia, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | Jakarta (CGK) | 2 | Indonesia AirAsia |
| PNH | Yangon (RGN) | 2 | Myanmar Airways International |
| PNH | Abu Dhabi (AUH) | 2 | Air Cambodia, Etihad Airways |
| KOS | Wuxi (WUX) | 1 | Ruili Airlines |
| KOS | Guangzhou (CAN) | 1 | Cambodia Airways |
| KOS | Shenzhen (SZX) | 1 | Air Cambodia |
| PNH | Wuhan (WUH) | 1 | China Eastern Airlines |
| PNH | Manila (MNL) | 1 | PAL Express, Philippine Airlines |
| PNH | Changsha (CSX) | 1 | Sky Angkor Airlines |
| PNH | Dara Sakor (DSY) | 1 | Air Cambodia |
| PNH | Sanya (SYX) | 1 | Cambodia Airways |
| PNH | Nanning (NNG) | 1 | Air Cambodia, Vietnam Airlines |
| PNH | XI'AN (XIY) | 1 | Spring Airlines |
Counts are scheduled movements on today's board, any status (departed, boarding, delayed, cancelled). Siem Reap (SAI) has no own public board; SAI sectors here are those filed via PNH/KOS boards — the operated SAI picture is therefore a partial view. Sourced from airport flight-information pages; refreshed with the weekly collection.
Scheduled International Routes — Weekly Snapshot
33 unique international routes (21 into Phnom Penh KTI, 9 into Siem Reap SAI, 2 into Sihanoukville KOS, 1 departure), tracked 18 October 2026 (snapshot 2026-10-18). Frequencies are from scheduled listings; "Listed" means the route appears without a published weekly pattern.
| Route | Distance | Duration | Carriers | Frequency |
|---|
KTI → MNL
Phnom Penh → Manila | 1,779 km | 165 min | 2P · PAL Express | Listed |
CAN → KTI
Guangzhou → Phnom Penh | 1,605 km | 150 min | CZ · China Southern
K6 · Air Cambodia
KR · Cambodia Airways | Daily |
SIN → KTI
Singapore → Phnom Penh | 1,118 km | 115 min | SQ · Singapore Airlines | Daily |
ICN → KTI
Seoul → Phnom Penh | 3,611 km | 300 min | OZ · Asiana Airlines
KE · Korean Air
ZA · Sky Angkor Airlines | Daily |
BKK → KTI
Bangkok (BKK) → Phnom Penh | 521 km | 70 min | PG · Bangkok Airways
K6 · Air Cambodia
KR · Cambodia Airways
8K · K-Mile Air
ZA · Sky Angkor Airlines
TG · Thai Airways | Daily |
HAN → KTI
Hanoi → Phnom Penh | 1,101 km | 115 min | VN · Vietnam Airlines | Daily |
HKG → KTI
Hong Kong → Phnom Penh | 1,547 km | 145 min | CX · Cathay Pacific
K6 · Air Cambodia
KR · Cambodia Airways | Daily |
KUL → KTI
Kuala Lumpur → Phnom Penh | 1,021 km | 105 min | KR · Cambodia Airways
KT · AirAsia Cambodia
MH · Malaysia Airlines | Daily |
SGN → KTI
Ho Chi Minh City → Phnom Penh | 198 km | 45 min | VN · Vietnam Airlines | Daily |
PEK → KTI
Beijing → Phnom Penh | 3,393 km | 285 min | CA · Air China
CA · Air China | Tue / Thu / Sat |
DEL → KTI
Delhi → Phnom Penh | 3,464 km | 290 min | K6 · Air Cambodia | Tue / Sat |
DMK → KTI
Bangkok (DMK) → Phnom Penh | 547 km | 70 min | FD · Thai AirAsia | Daily |
CGK → KTI
Jakarta → Phnom Penh | 1,954 km | 175 min | QZ · Indonesia AirAsia | Mon / Wed / Fri / Sun |
TPE → KTI
Taipei → Phnom Penh | 2,297 km | 200 min | CI · China Airlines
BR · EVA Air | Daily |
WUH → KTI
Wuhan → Phnom Penh | 2,362 km | 205 min | MU · China Eastern | Thu / Sat |
SZX → KTI
Shenzhen → Phnom Penh | 1,569 km | 150 min | ZH · Shenzhen Airlines | Daily |
PVG → KTI
Shanghai → Phnom Penh | 2,802 km | 240 min | MU · China Eastern | Daily |
MNL → KTI
Manila → Phnom Penh | 1,779 km | 165 min | PR · Philippine Airlines | Tue / Fri / Sat |
XMN → KTI
Xiamen → Phnom Penh | 2,022 km | 180 min | MF · XiamenAir | Daily |
FOC → KTI
Fuzhou → Phnom Penh | 2,241 km | 200 min | MF · XiamenAir | Tue / Wed / Thu / Fri / Sat / Sun |
AUH → KTI
Abu Dhabi → Phnom Penh | 5,483 km | 440 min | EY · Etihad Airways | Tue / Thu / Sat / Sun |
KMG → KTI
Kunming → Phnom Penh | 1,542 km | 145 min | MU · China Eastern | Daily |
DMK → SAI
Bangkok (DMK) → Siem Reap | 395 km | 60 min | FD · Thai AirAsia | Daily |
SGN → SAI
Ho Chi Minh City → Siem Reap | 387 km | 60 min | VN · Vietnam Airlines | Daily |
HAN → SAI
Hanoi → Siem Reap | 889 km | 95 min | VN · Vietnam Airlines
VJ · VietJet Air | Daily |
BKK → SAI
Bangkok (BKK) → Siem Reap | 377 km | 60 min | PG · Bangkok Airways
TG · Thai Airways | Daily |
HKT → SAI
Phuket → Siem Reap | 870 km | 95 min | FD · Thai AirAsia | Listed |
CCU → SAI
Kolkata → Siem Reap | 1,959 km | 175 min | 6E · IndiGo | Mon / Thu / Sat |
KUL → SAI
Kuala Lumpur → Siem Reap | 1,213 km | 120 min | KT · AirAsia Cambodia | Daily |
KMG → SAI
Kunming → Siem Reap | 1,312 km | 130 min | MU · China Eastern | Fri |
SIN → SAI
Singapore → Siem Reap | 1,337 km | 130 min | SQ · Singapore Airlines | Daily |
CAN → KOS
Guangzhou → Sihanoukville | 1,756 km | 160 min | ZA · Sky Angkor Airlines | Tue / Wed / Thu / Fri / Sun |
KUL → KOS
Kuala Lumpur → Sihanoukville | 896 km | 95 min | AK · AirAsia (Malaysia)
KT · AirAsia Cambodia
ZA · Sky Angkor Airlines | Daily |
What is Changed
✈️ Weekly airlift notes — 18 Oct 2026
- Route diff vs the 11 Oct snapshot: 0 new / 0 dropped — scheduled listings hold at 33 unique international routes (21 into KTI, 9 into SAI, 2 into KOS, 1 departing KTI) with the same carrier set as last week. The board snapshot covers 171 movements across 37 sectors, led by Guangzhou (21), Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (18), Kuala Lumpur (17) and Singapore (12). Tenth flat week in the timetable — but the winter filing and the diplomacy both moved.
- Air Cambodia filed a second round of winter changes on 11 October. The additions: Phnom Penh–Vientiane, 3x weekly with the COMAC C909 from 15 December, and Phnom Penh–Haikou, 3x weekly C909 from the same date, plus Sanya–Vladivostok 2x weekly from 17 December. Frequency rises on existing pairs: Guangzhou 11→14 weekly and Phu Quoc 3→7 weekly from 25 October, Nanning 2→3 weekly from 27 October with a fourth weekly C909 from 21 December, and Fuzhou–Tokyo Narita to 5 weekly from 15 December — with those extra Tokyo rotations still not open for reservations. It also pushed two resumptions back: Hong Kong to 21 December (from 25 October) and Nha Trang to 30 March 2027 (from 17 December). Only the frequency and aircraft swaps sit inside the feed’s 33 routes; the new points sit outside it.
- Kazakhstan raised direct air links. In Astana on 17 October — the first visit by a Cambodian prime minister — President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed that the two countries look at establishing direct flights, citing Kazakh demand to visit Cambodia, and seven cooperation documents were signed. No airline, city pair, frequency or date was named. Air Astana keeps building Southeast Asia capacity (Almaty–Tokyo Narita from 30 November, Astana–Bangkok from 11 December) but has filed nothing to Cambodia.
- Azerbaijan is at the talks stage, not the timetable stage. Three agreements were signed in Baku on 12 October — an economic cooperation framework, a double-taxation pact and a diplomatic education partnership — and the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce used the business forum to ask for an embassy in Phnom Penh and direct air links. The two governments have directed their civil aviation authorities to begin talks on an air services agreement. No route, carrier or start date was confirmed, so the Cambodia–Azerbaijan pair still means Istanbul, Dubai or Doha connections.
- The demand side moved faster than the schedule. Pchum Ben drew roughly two million Cambodian travellers over the festival, reported on 15 October, in the same week the Ministry of Tourism opened a consultation on reviving arrivals. A Cambodianess editorial on 11 October argued that direct international flights should be the sector’s top priority, paired with a one-month tourist visa. Neither is policy yet — the visa-free summer window closed on 15 October — but it is the clearest public push this year on what to do about connectivity.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2026 · Sources: weekly scheduled route tracking (KTI + SAI + KOS), airport arrival and departure boards, carrier winter-season filings, and this week's news signals
✈️ Weekly airlift notes — 11 Oct 2026
- Route diff vs the 4 Oct snapshot: 0 new / 0 dropped — scheduled listings hold at 33 unique international routes (21 into KTI, 9 into SAI, 2 into KOS, 1 departing KTI) with the same carrier set as last week. The board snapshot covers 176 movements across 38 sectors, led by Kuala Lumpur (19), Guangzhou (18), Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (17) and Singapore (12). Third flat week in the timetable, but the news cycle moved.
- Air Cambodia’s winter filing lost its Tokyo increase — for now. In a schedule revision dated 7 October, the carrier withdrew the planned step from three to five weekly on Phnom Penh–Fuzhou–Tokyo Narita: the extra rotations are not open for reservations, and the filing note leaves them “highly possible” for later in the season. The A321 replacement on the pairing from 25 October stands. Japan stays connected at three weekly through the winter as filed, with the frequency increase parked rather than cancelled.
- Delhi gets a third weekly from 17 December. Air Cambodia will add a Thursday rotation on Delhi–Phnom Penh, alongside the existing Tuesday and Saturday services, announced on 5–6 October. K6-760 leaves Phnom Penh at 19:15 and reaches Delhi at 22:30; K6-761 returns at 23:30 and lands at 06:10 the next morning. The A320 carries 170 seats, eight of them business. It is the first addition to the India pair since launch and the clearest new frequency the feed itself cannot show.
- Canada opens a codeshare path into Cambodia. The Canadian Transportation Agency published determination A-2026-163 on 7 October, licensing Air Transat to sell scheduled Canada–Cambodia service through codeshare under the 2015 bilateral air transport memorandum. No partner, city pair or booking date was named. The trade read is Turkish Airlines, which flies Istanbul–Phnom Penh — but this is a licence, not a route, and nothing about it changes the timetable yet.
- Emirates works the Cambodian market for winter Dubai travel. The carrier ran a “discover Dubai this winter” push in Cambodian media in the week to 9 October. Emirates serves Phnom Penh daily via Singapore and Siem Reap three times weekly via Bangkok, so neither leg appears in the route diff; both are multi-stop. Etihad’s direct Abu Dhabi–Phnom Penh service still shows Tue / Thu / Sat / Sun in this week’s feed, unchanged for a month.
- Route development stayed promotional, not scheduled. Vietnam Airlines joined Cambodia and Laos tourism bodies on 10 October to market Indochina itineraries together. Air Cambodia’s wider winter build-out — Haikou, Sanya–Vladivostok, Sihanoukville–Chongqing, the Guangzhou and Phu Quoc increases — is filed in the listings but is not yet in the feed, and the 33-route count has now been flat for nine weeks.
Last updated: 11 Oct 2026 · Sources: weekly scheduled route tracking (KTI + SAI + KOS), airport arrival and departure boards, and this week's news signals
✈️ Weekly airlift notes — 4 Oct 2026
- Route diff vs the 27 Sep snapshot: 0 new / 0 dropped — scheduled listings hold at 33 unique international routes (21 into KTI, 9 into SAI, 2 into KOS, 1 departing KTI) and the 28 carrier codes in the feed are the same set as last week. The board snapshot covers 166 movements across 34 sectors, led by Kuala Lumpur (18), Guangzhou (18), Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (17) and Singapore (12). No timetable movement two weeks running.
- Cambodia's first aviation university is now signed. OCIC, the developer behind Techo International Airport, and the Philippines' WCC Aeronautical & Technological College signed an agreement on 1 October to open WCC International AeroTech University at Koh Pich in Phnom Penh. It starts with three bachelor's programmes: aircraft maintenance engineering, airline operations management, and tourism management with a flight-attendant track. OCIC's Carolyne Pung put the case in workforce terms, saying Southeast Asia will need roughly 258,000 new aviation professionals over 20 years. The SSCA is backing a parallel training programme covering seven areas, from flight and aircraft maintenance to AI and automation, aviation cybersecurity, and drone and eVTOL operations.
- IndiGo's Kolkata–Siem Reap service is back on the board. The route returned on 1 October and now shows Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays in this week's feed — three months after the carrier paused it. Siem Reap's international board is still the thinner of the two, with 9 scheduled routes against 21 into Phnom Penh.
- Floods around Bangkok disrupted Cambodia-bound travel. Torrential rain in Thailand affected around 700,000 people before the floodwaters began easing on 28 September, and a Khmer Times report on 29 September described an overbooked Malaysia Airlines flight leaving Cambodia-bound passengers stranded in Bangkok. Bangkok remains the single densest sector out of Phnom Penh, so a hub-level interruption there lands on Cambodian arrivals faster than most.
- Singapore Airlines widens the southern long-haul path. The carrier announced on 3 October that it will fly daily to Western Sydney International from November. Australia has no direct service to Cambodia, so extra Sydney–Singapore capacity works through Changi into the existing Phnom Penh and Siem Reap nonstops. Singapore is Phnom Penh's fourth-busiest sector in this week's board snapshot, at 12 movements.
- Route development stayed in the news, but not in the timetable. The SSCA keeps pointing to the airport network, the new air transport agreement with the US and skills investment as connected pieces of the same build-out. None of it has produced a new scheduled route into Cambodia yet, and the 33-route count has now been flat for two months. Seasonal charter programmes remain invisible to scheduled-route tracking.
Last updated: 4 Oct 2026 · Sources: weekly scheduled route tracking (KTI + SAI + KOS), airport arrival and departure boards, and this week's news signals
✈️ Weekly airlift notes — 27 Sep 2026
- Route diff vs the 20 Sep snapshot: 0 new / 0 dropped — scheduled listings hold at 33 unique international routes (21 into KTI, 9 into SAI, 2 into KOS, 1 departing KTI) and the 28 carrier codes in the feed are the same set as last week. The board snapshot covers 159 movements across 37 sectors, led by Kuala Lumpur (20), Guangzhou (18) and Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (14). Nothing in the timetable moved; the news did the work this week.
- IndiGo confirms Kolkata–Siem Reap returns on 1 October. A320neo aircraft on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, three months after the carrier suspended the pair. The route launched in November 2025 and ran for eight months; the SSCA's Sin Chansereyvutha puts the pause down to green-season demand and cost pressure. It is recovered capacity rather than new capacity, and it puts India's largest carrier back on the Siem Reap board.
- Thai AirAsia restores Phuket–Siem Reap from 25 October, the same date Don Mueang–Kuala Lumpur comes back. Both sit inside ten suspended Asian routes Thai AirAsia and Thai AirAsia X will reinstate over October to December, taking the two carriers to 53 routes and 46 cities out of Don Mueang. AirAsia cut 81 services earlier this year when fuel ran towards US$200 a barrel, so this is the clearest sign yet that short-haul seats into Cambodia are coming back rather than staying parked.
- Air Cambodia defers its Tokyo frequency increase to 15 December. Narita–Fuzhou–Phnom Penh stays at three weekly (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday) through the autumn instead of stepping up on 25 October; Tuesday and Saturday rotations arrive on 15 December, taking the route to five weekly. The increase was filed back in July. The same date is when the carrier's first COMAC C909s enter service, so the two changes now land together.
- Capacity keeps outrunning demand. Techo International can handle 13–15 million passengers a year and took about 656,000 arrivals in the first five months of 2026, down 26% year on year; Siem Reap drew about 274,000, down 11%. Sihanoukville now sees five flights a week against more than 700 at Techo. Countrywide, seven-month air passengers were 3.71 million (down 9%) on 37,248 flights (down 1%), while air cargo rose 21% to 57,103 tonnes. The SSCA's answer is a national route development strategy aimed at ASEAN, China, South Korea, Japan and India, with support for carriers opening new routes.
- Qatar keeps Phnom Penh in the network. A published schedule analysis of Qatar Airways' long-haul cuts since 2016 lists 20 airports the carrier has stopped serving and leaves Phnom Penh out, because the city's airport moved to Techo rather than the city dropping off the map. The Doha–Phnom Penh return, still routed via Ho Chi Minh City, appears among the carrier's ten longest services at a maximum block time of 15 hours 40 minutes. Etihad's direct Abu Dhabi–Phnom Penh service still shows Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun in this week's feed. The permanent Gulf box below carries the full picture.
- Regional competition sharpens. Vietnam's Phu Quoc is adding a second runway and a new terminal to reach 20 million passengers a year ahead of APEC 2027, after handling about six million last year; Cambodia's three international airports handled 2.4 million passengers in the first four months of 2026. Seasonal charter programmes stay invisible to scheduled-route tracking, and none surfaced in this week's news.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2026 · Sources: weekly scheduled route tracking (KTI + SAI + KOS), airport arrival and departure boards, and this week's news signals
✈️ Weekly airlift notes — 20 Sep 2026
- Route diff vs the 13 Sep snapshot: 0 new / 0 dropped — scheduled listings hold at 33 unique international routes (21 into KTI, 9 into SAI, 2 into KOS, 1 departing KTI). Counting basis: 27 primary operators with active scheduled service (4 Cambodia-based + 23 international — Myanmar Airways International and Ruili Airlines added on 20 Sep board evidence), plus codeshare-only partners, which is why older snapshots cite 28 carriers. The movement this week is in traffic figures and carrier filings, not in the timetable.
- Passenger traffic fell 10% through August while cargo rose 17%. The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation's eight-month report, released on 16 September, puts international passenger traffic at 4.16 million, down 10% year on year, on 42,189 international flights — a 1% dip in movements. Air cargo went the other way, up 17% to 66,559 tonnes. The SSCA counts 33 airlines serving Cambodia, 29 international and four domestic. Taken together: the schedule held up, the seats on it did not fill.
- Cambodia Airways opened three Siem Reap routes in mid-September. Siem Reap–Bangkok Suvarnabhumi began on 15 September at 5x weekly on ATR72s, Siem Reap–Da Nang followed on 16 September at 4x weekly, and Siem Reap–Ho Chi Minh City started at 2x weekly, stepping up to 3x from 27 October. This week's feed shows Vietnam Airlines alone on the Siem Reap–Ho Chi Minh City pair, so the Cambodia Airways additions are carrier-filed rather than feed-confirmed.
- Air Cambodia's first two C909s arrive in November. An SSCA delegation has finished reviewing Comac's flight and maintenance training organisations ahead of delivery. The 93-seat cabin carries three business seats and 90 in economy, and Air Cambodia expects to fly the type mainly on domestic routes and regional services into ASEAN and China, with routes still to be announced. Under the 20-aircraft agreement — the first batch order for the C909 placed by an overseas flag carrier — two more firm orders land in 2027, three in 2028 and three in 2029.
- AirAsia Group is putting 17 routes back. The group cut 81 services after jet fuel ran from about US$85 to nearly US$200 a barrel, and now expects to restore 17 of them across the third and fourth quarters, beginning with domestic and major ASEAN trunk routes. Average fares are up 21% year on year, domestic fares by as much as 40%, and the group warns fourth-quarter fares will run more than 20% higher if fuel stays elevated. AirAsia and AirAsia Cambodia operate the Kuala Lumpur links into Sihanoukville and Siem Reap, so this is the clearest fare risk in Cambodia's short-haul network going into the winter.
- SSCA took its airport pitch to the region's regulators. At the 61st Asia-Pacific Regional Directors General of Civil Aviation Conference in Kuala Lumpur (7–11 September), Minister Mao Havannall and the SSCA said Techo International, Siem Reap Angkor and Sihanoukville give Cambodia the gateway capacity to add regional and intercontinental services, and restated the commitment to ICAO standards and oversight.
- Phnom Penh's old airport is becoming a public park. Prime Minister Hun Manet said on 16 September that the former Pochentong site will be redeveloped as public green space instead of aviation use, finally closing the loop on the capital's 2025 move to Techo International.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2026 · Sources: weekly scheduled route tracking (KTI + SAI + KOS) + this week's news signals
✈️ Weekly airlift notes — 13 Sep 2026
- Route diff vs the 6 Sep snapshot: 0 new / 0 dropped — scheduled listings hold at 33 unique international routes (21 into KTI, 9 into SAI, 2 into KOS, 1 departing KTI) with 28 carriers. Nothing in the current timetable moved this week. What did move is what carriers have filed for the winter ahead.
- Air Cambodia filed its largest winter expansion yet. Three routes are new: Phnom Penh–Haikou 3x weekly from 16 December, Phnom Penh–Sanya–Vladivostok 2x weekly from 17 December (Cambodia's first service to Russia's Far East), and Sihanoukville–Chongqing 2x weekly from 1 February 2027. The carrier's first COMAC C909s enter service on 15 December, on the Haikou and Nanning routes.
- Existing Air Cambodia routes gain capacity from late October. Hong Kong returns on 25 October at 4x weekly, suspended since late July. Guangzhou goes from 11 to 14 weekly, Delhi from 2 to 3 and Fuzhou–Tokyo Narita from 3 to 5 in December, Nanning from 2 to 4, and Phu Quoc from 3 to 7. Da Nang switches from ATR72 to A320 on a daily pattern, from Phnom Penh and Siem Reap alike.
- IndiGo restores Kolkata–Siem Reap on 1 October, 3x weekly on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays — the pattern already visible in this week's schedule snapshot. The route went down in March with the wider West Asia disruption. IndiGo is also adding Kolkata–Shanghai daily, Kolkata–Singapore 6x weekly, Bhubaneswar–Bangkok from 1 October and Guwahati–Bangkok later in the month.
- Techo International marked its first year on 9 September. The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation says the 4F gateway can take the largest long-haul types, the A380 and 747 among them, and that the next task is connecting Cambodia to more cities. A new road link between Siem Reap Angkor airport and the city centre is also going in.
- Qatar Airways' winter plan keeps the Phnom Penh routing. The carrier's 2026–27 winter announcement on 9 September lifts Ho Chi Minh City to 11 weekly from 7 November as direct Doha service returns, listing “the existing Phnom Penh routing” alongside it — the clearest carrier confirmation this year that Doha–Phnom Penh stays in the winter schedule. It is a multi-stop operation, which is why it never shows up in the route diff. No other Gulf schedule changes surfaced this week.
Last updated: 13 Sep 2026 · Sources: weekly scheduled route tracking (KTI + SAI + KOS) + this week's news signals
📌 Gulf hub context — the 2026 Middle East disruption (permanent reference, keep this box)
- Exposure: Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) estimates Gulf hubs (Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi) carry ~12,960 travellers to Cambodia per week (~51,840/month) across 52 Middle East-linked flights — 46 weekly from Phnom Penh’s Techo International (incl. 8 cargo) and 6 from Siem Reap Angkor.
- The halt: When Qatar Airways, Emirates and Etihad suspended or curtailed services through Gulf hubs during the March 2026 Middle East disruption, that exposure was cut at the source — long-haul Western/European/North American connectivity, the highest-yield segment, was the most affected.
- Recovery: Emirates resumed Phnom Penh–Dubai daily (via Singapore) on 1 May 2026 and Siem Reap–Dubai 3x weekly (via Bangkok); Etihad operates direct Abu Dhabi–Phnom Penh (4x weekly since Oct 2025, and unchanged at Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun in this week’s feed) and expanded an Air Cambodia codeshare (Apr 2026). Qatar Airways’ 2026–27 winter network, announced 10 Sep 2026, runs to more than 170 destinations on nearly 1,800 weekly flights and lists “the existing Phnom Penh routing” while lifting Ho Chi Minh City to 11 weekly from 7 Nov — the clearest carrier confirmation that Doha–Phnom Penh remains in the winter schedule.
- Position check (September 2026): a published analysis of Qatar Airways’ long-haul cuts since 2016 lists 20 airports the carrier has stopped serving and rules Phnom Penh out, because the city’s airport changed rather than the city leaving the network. The Doha–Phnom Penh return, still routed via Ho Chi Minh City, ranks among the carrier’s ten longest services at a maximum block time of 15h 40m.
- October check (18 Oct 2026): no Gulf schedule changes this week either. Etihad’s direct Abu Dhabi–Phnom Penh service still shows Tue / Thu / Sat / Sun in the feed, and Emirates keeps serving Phnom Penh daily via Singapore and Siem Reap three times weekly via Bangkok. The fare search still hands Emirates the low end of the Phnom Penh–Singapore pair at US$118 on a 2h00 block — a fifth-freedom seat on an existing leg, not new capacity. The two bilateral files that moved this week are with Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, neither of them a Gulf state, and both still at the proposal or talks stage.
- Reading note: Gulf hub services often operate as multi-stop itineraries (via Singapore or Bangkok), so they may not appear as standalone route listings — treat the carrier tables’ “Via Dubai/Bangkok” rows as the reference for Gulf access rather than the route diff.
Source: SSCA statements, weekly route feed (Oct 2026), Qatar Airways schedule analysis (Sep 2026), Qatar Airways winter 2026–27 network release, TTG Asia, Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia Investment Review (Mar–Oct 2026).
About the Data — how this page is compiled
The route snapshot is collected weekly from a scheduled route-tracking feed covering international arrivals into Phnom Penh (KTI), Siem Reap (SAI) and Sihanoukville (KOS). The airline tables combine that feed with carrier route maps, airport websites and industry listings. Frequencies reflect scheduled listings at the time of collection and can change. Fares are indicative search results gathered on 18 October 2026. The Siem Reap rows are carrier-direct fares for a November 2026 departure, quoted in euros; the Phnom Penh rows come from an indicative booking search for a 30 November 2026 departure, quoted in US dollars, one-way in economy. Both windows match last week’s, so the week-on-week lines are comparable. Two Siem Reap pairs returned no usable fare this cycle and are left out rather than estimated. Fares move daily, and a quote is not a filed seat: the schedule table is the record of what airlines have filed, the fare lines are what search returned on the day. Airline schedules change frequently — verify with the carrier before planning travel.
A reading note — read the airlift numbers with caution.
UN Tourism’s arrivals-by-mode-of-transport data show that Cambodia’s post-pandemic recovery was
overwhelmingly
overland-driven: between 2019 and 2022 the share of overnight visitors arriving
by air fell from roughly two-thirds to about a third, while land arrivals came to dominate (≈65% by 2022).
The practical read is that long-haul, flight-dependent demand — which carries the highest yield — collapsed
harder and has been slower to recover than short-haul overland traffic. This is a demand-side lens, and an
admittedly cloudy one: official mode-of-transport splits describe the
mix of arrivals, not the strain on
airlift itself, and the picture is especially ambiguous in a border context. The Cambodia–Thailand
dynamic is the wildcard — it has visibly distorted the usual overland metrics and remains genuinely hard to
forecast. The honest conclusion is not that airlift is weak, but that the headline numbers cannot be read at
face value: capacity, yield and border politics must be weighed together.
Source: UN Tourism Statistics Database (mode-of-transport series, 2019 vs 2022 editions).
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