Mega-airports and a plastic blizzard
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EVERYONE wants one. Now even tiny Siem Reap – home to Angkor’s majestic jungle-shrouded temples – has a big one.
The Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport started operation on Oct 16, in one fell swoop catapulting the operation into the largest of its kind in Cambodia.
Costing US$1.1 billion and financed by a Chinese state-owned company on a 55-year build-operate-transfer (BOT) lease, the new airport is 40 kilometres from the historic ruins. The old airport has been closed. The first phase of the opening allows for narrow-body flights and around seven million passengers annually while the second phase by 2030 will see the introduction of wide-body aircraft such as A350s and B777s with a capacity for 12 million visitors.
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