PMTair explained

Airline:	PMTAir
Fleet Size:	7
Destinations:	4 (at closure)
Iata:	U4
Icao:	PMT
Callsign:	MULTITRADE
Parent:	Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd.
Founded:	2003
Ceased:	2008
Headquarters:	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Hubs:	Phnom Penh International Airport
Secondary Hubs:	Angkor International Airport
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.

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

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

• Cambodia
  • Siem Reap - Angkor International Airport base
• Korea, South
  • Busan - Gimhae International Airport
  • Seoul - Incheon International Airport
• Vietnam
  • Hanoi - Noi Bai International Airport

Former routes

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

• Pattaya-Siem Reap
• Bangkok-Phnom Penh
• Hanoi-Phnom Penh
• Phnom Penh-Ratanakiri-Siem Reap
• Ratanakiri-Phnom Penh
• Siem Reap-Phnom Penh
• Siem Reap-Sihanoukville

Fleet

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

• 2 Antonov An-12 (cargo)
• 1 Antonov An-24
• 2 Boeing 737-200
• 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (one aircraft is operated for Wind Rose Aviation)

Accidents and incidents

• On November 21, 2005, a Yunshuji Y7-100C operated by PMTair left the runway when landing at Ban Lung, Ratanakiri and sheared a leg off its landing gear. Fifty-nine passengers and six crew members were aboard. There were no injuries. The aircraft was XU-072, leased from Royal Phnom Penh Airways, and formerly operated by President Airlines.^[4] As a result of this accident, United Nations personnel were barred from using the airline.^[5]
• On June 25, 2007, PMTair Flight U4 241, an Antonov An-24 with 16 passengers and six crew crashed in a mountainous jungle area of Kampot Province. The flight had departed Angkor International Airport and was heading for Sihanoukville International Airport, and disappeared from radar at around 10:40 a.m. local time (0340 UTC). Aboard were 13 South Koreans and three Czech passengers, and the crew of one Uzbekistani pilot and five Cambodians. Because of weather and rugged terrain, search-and-rescue crews took two days to find the crash site. No survivors were found.^{[6] [7] [8]}

External links

• Official Website (Archive)
• PMTair Fleet

Notes and References

1. Web site: Complete Listing of Airlines in Cambodia . AirlineUpdate.com . https://archive.today/20120723104544/http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_public/airlines/se_asia/cambodia.htm . July 23, 2012 . dead .
2. Web site: Cambodian airlines: Flight schedule . www.pmtair.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20080514163708/http://www.pmtair.com/www/index.php?gid=3&pid=999 . May 14, 2008 . dead .
3. Web site: CH-Aviation - Airline News, Fleet Lists & More . CH-Aviation . 2008-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120210095031/http://www.ch-aviation.ch/aircraft.php?search=set&airline=PMT&al_op=1 . 2012-02-10 . dead .
4. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_2005_Dec_12/ai_n15935397 Accidents and Incidents
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. News: 'No survivors' in Cambodia plane . BBC News . 2007-06-27 . 2007-06-26.
8. News: Memorials held for Cambodian air crash victims . https://web.archive.org/web/20070630135202/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/284970/1/.html . dead . 2007-06-30 . Channel NewsAsia . 2007-06-28 . 2007-06-28 .