PMTair

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PMTAir
PMTair logo.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
U4PMTMULTITRADE
Founded2003
Ceased operations2008
Hubs Phnom Penh International Airport
Secondary hubs Angkor International Airport
Fleet size7
Destinations4 (at closure)
Parent company Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd.
Headquarters Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Website www.pmtair.com

PMTair (Progress MulTi Air) was a Cambodian airline offering regularly scheduled domestic and international passenger and cargo services out of Phnom Penh International Airport.

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History

PMTair was founded on 14 January 2003 and was owned by Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd. A certificate of airworthiness was issued by the Cambodian Civil Aviation Authority on October 14, 2003.

The airline was dissolved in 2008, [1]

Destinations

Passengers disembark from a PMTair Antonov An-24 at Phnom Penh International Airport in September 2006. PMTair 20060914 Phnom Penh.jpg
Passengers disembark from a PMTair Antonov An-24 at Phnom Penh International Airport in September 2006.
A PMTair McDonnell Douglas MD-83 at Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport, Cambodia in 2007. PMT Air MD-83 Sibille-1.jpg
A PMTair McDonnell Douglas MD-83 at Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport, Cambodia in 2007.

Upon closure, PMTair served the following destinations: [2]

Former routes

PMTair suspended all domestic flights in the wake of the crash of PMTair Flight U4 241.

Fleet

The PMTair fleet included the following aircraft (as of 30 August 2008): [3]

Accidents and incidents

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References

  1. World Airline Directory Archived 2010-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. PMTair - Cambodian airlines: FLIGHT SCHEDULE Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2008-01-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Accidents and Incidents, Air Safety Week, 2005-12-12 (retrieved 2007-06-25).
  5. De Launey, Guy (2006-02-06). "Budget flights arrive in Southeast Asia", BBC News Online, retrieved 2007-06-25.
  6. Agence France-Presse (2007-06-25). Charter plane carrying Koreans, Czechs crashes in Cambodia, Channel NewsAsia, retrieved 2007-06-25.
  7. "'No survivors' in Cambodia plane". BBC News. 2007-06-27. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
  8. "Memorials held for Cambodian air crash victims". Channel NewsAsia. 2007-06-28. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-06-28.