The trips with the A380 were fun. The A380 always is. No matter how often I fly her, I still find her fascinating every time. But this next flight I am looking forward to even more I think, because I shall be travelling on little known carrier Cambodia Angkor Air, the airline of the Kingdom of Cambodia. It just all sounds so exotic!
Fare: RMB8.- per person for a single journey. Only notes of RMB5 and RMB10 or coins of RMB1 are accepted by the machine.
The Four Seasons Hotel is connected to the metro at Zhoujiang Street station via the IFF building. As you exit the hotel lift on the ground floor, turn right into the IFF, then right again and take the escalators one floor down. Walk through the friendship store until you reach the exit for the metro on the other side of the shop.
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Counters: There are two counters available for check-in for today’s flight – H22 and H24. There is no separate counter for Business Class passengers.
Guangzhou sees a lot of interesting traffic by the way, two rows further down from where my flight is checking in, I see signs for an Air Madagascar flight to Bangkok and Antananarivo. Ethiopian and Egypt Air also fly here.
From check-in I follow the signs for the A gates, which are the gates for international departures. After customs and security I turn right for immigration. The airport is fairly busy, although I suspect this is what it is always like here. A new terminal is already under construction on the other side of the apron. The immigration officer stamps my passport to leave the People’s Republic and sends me on my way with a friendly wave.
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Location: Near gate A112. Type of Lounge: Premium Lounge contractor lounge that is used by just a few airlines, including Cambodia Angkor Air. Facilities: There are no toilets or showers in the lounge. Other than that, the lounge does have a few computer work stations and a small selection of hot and cold dishes. Apparently this is just a temporary lounge, though. Internet: Free airport wifi is available, but you will need a Chinese mobile to receive the password.
Premium Lounges operates two facilities at Guangzhou. The larger one is just a few steps behind immigration. Even though it says so on the lounge invitation, this is not the lounge Cambodia Angkor Air uses. Instead, they use the smaller lounge near gate A112. The place is empty and surprisingly pleasant. The views of the apron are excellent.
Boarding for the flight starts on time. There are only two of us in Business Class and judging by how quickly boarding is completed, I think Economy Class is probably not sold out either.
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About ten minutes after our scheduled departure time at 13h25, the captain comes on the mike to welcome us aboard. He also informs us that we have an ATC delay and therefore will not be departing from Guangzhou until 15h35, with a delay of more than two hours. We are going to have to wait on board the aircraft.
Quite honestly, I am not really surprised about the delay, given that so far not a single one of my flights to or in China was on time. Eventually though, we depart with a delay of only sixty minutes. By the time we reach Siem Reap, we are only running thirty minutes behind schedule.
Seat: I am sitting on 3A, which is a window seat on the port side of the aircraft. The cabin is in the configuration and branding of Vietnam Airlines, who lease the plane to Cambodia Angkor Air. Only the head covers are Cambodia branded. There are four rows in Business Class, which means a total of sixteen seats. The seat is wide and very comfortable for a flight of only two hours. There is even a foot rest which can be raised quite far up and the recline is decent. But there is something very old school about the seat too: the controls are mechanical rather than electric.
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Audio and Video: The safety on board instructions are given via the overhead video screens. In Business Class every seat has individual video screens. However, apparently Cambodia Angkor Air does not have an inflight entertainment system.
The service in Business Class is conducted by a charming and very pretty female flight attendant. As soon as I am seated, she welcomes me aboard and asks me what I will be drinking. A short while later she returns with a glass of orange juice and a cold towel. During the delay on the ground she comes to ask me if there is anything else I would like to drink. And I order a sparkling water.
Towel before the meal: Cold towel served on the ground. Choice: There are two choices for the main course. Delivery: Tray service. Type of meal: Late lunch.
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The meal is interesting, to say the least. The salad tastes of plastic. There is a taste of je ne said quoi that is only amplified by the salad dressing, which is about just as bad as that god awful stuff Lufthansa serve from a jar in First Class. The main course though, is tasty enough, although I am not really a fan of chicken on a plane. The fruit you cannot really go wrong with anyway, but that orange mango thingy…? The meal concludes with a cup of coffee. And then I lean back, read and enjoy the view outside. It is only now that it occurs to me that this is first blue sky I am seeing since I arrived in China. In the cities the pollution is so bad that you rarely see the sun, let along a blue sky.
Eventually we start our descent into Siem Reap. From above the place looks very rural. The nice thing about this small airport is that there are no airbridges, Jay! So I am going to have to trundle along the tarmac and take a few pictures along the way. Oh happy day…!
The terminal is undergoing renovation and the arrivals hall looks very new. In addition to the e-visa I had to apply for ahead of my trip to Cambodia, every visitor must also complete an immigration form before queuing to enter the country. As I enter the terminal building, I am picked up by a gentleman representing my hotel, the Amansara. He escorts me past immigration and asks me to wait while he goes to have my passport stamped. As easy as cutting Swiss cheese…
Vietnam Airlines (operated By Cambodia Angkor Air) Business Class Flight From Ho Chi Minh City (saigon), Vietnam To Siem Reap, Cambodia
Journey time: The journey to the Amansara takes from the airport takes me right past the temple at Angkor Wat and takes roughly 25 minutes. I think I am going to like it here…This is the report of the domestic flight K6 130 from Sihanouk International Airport (IATA: KOS, ICAO: VDSV) to Siem Reap International Airport (IATA: REP, ICAO: VDSR) with Cambodia Angkor Air (IATA: K6, ICAO: KHV), in Economy class, on Mar/08th 2020.
The airline was founded almost 11 years ago, in 2009 and is based at Phnom Penh International Airport (IATA: PNH, ICAO: VDPP).
Is it owned by the Cambodian Government (51%) and previously by Vietnam Airlines (49%). The National airline from Vietnam recently sold is stake to an undisclosed company.
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Currently has a fleet of 6 airplanes: 2 Airbus A320 from 2016, 1 A321 from 2012 and 3 ATR 72-600 from 2009 (which were operating previously for Vietnam Airlines). The average age of the fleet is 7, 5 years and operates routes to 17 destinations.
The domestic terminal, on the ground floor, after security, has a duty free area and the waiting area for gates 1 and 2 and on the 1st floor a bigger waiting area with 2 shops and 1 cafe and 1 restaurant, with a panoramic view to the apron and runway. This airport has no lounge.
The boarding gate was supposed to be the number 4 on the first floor but right before boarding they changed it to number 1. I think they did for the passengers to be waiting on the first floor where are located most of the stores and the restaurant.
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This flight was operated by an Airbus A321-231 (powered by IAE V2500 engines), Registration XU-350, with 7, 4 years old. The cabin was divided by 4 rows of Business Class with the high-comfort seat on medium haul airplanes and 27 rows of Economy class. I was seated at 11A, the second row of the Economy Class, in this almost empty aircraft due to the Corona Virus outbreak and the reduction of tourism in Asia.
This airplane also had inflight entertainment system installed with monitors in the Passenger Service unit, which is not very often seen nowadays on the A320 Family across the world.
The aircraft landed on Runway 05 at Siem Reap at 12h42, 23 before scheduled arrived (at 13h05), and with a flight time of 37 minutes: one of the shortest flights I ever had.
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This short flight, unfortunately empty due to Corona outbreak, was uneventful but really enjoyed to fly with Cambodia Angkor Air, an
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