The study begins on the Battambang Airport reopening project

The Battambang airport reopening project has been opened with a detailed study of its feasibility, rehabilitation and renovation possibility, and its impact, but the exact cost of the study is yet to be confirmed.

H.E. Governor, Ngoun Rathanak, in a press conference on “Progress and Continuing Direction of the Provincial Administration of Battambang” on the morning of May 13, 2020, said that the upgrade project is to facilitate and cater to the travel and travel needs of the province. The business of people in the province to the provinces in the country easily and save time.

“As a result, Samdech Sor Keng and provincial administration, after receiving a company’s proposal, asked to study on the airport project to see whether it needs
anything else for flight possibility, since the airport was inaugurated in 1968, by then, the airport was capable to serve only ATR plane type,” added Rathanak.
“The study aims at examining the possibilities of the current market and to see whether the existing runway and air road, parking, and taxiway is able to serve the current market or not. Now, the company has been studying,” added Rathanak.

Two teams are involving in the study: 1) H.E. Sork Sitha Standing Secretary of State of Secretariat of Civil Aviation is leading a study and 2) the provincial administration is studying the possible impacts on the field.

After the Battambang Airport is reopened, the Battambang government expects tourism to grow in the province.

It has been recalled that since its last closure in 1991, the airport has just been included in the $ 3.506 million investment project of the government to be used for construction, restoration, expansion, and upgrading all airports in Cambodia in the aviation development plan 2015 – 2023. This is according to H.E Sin Chansereyvutha, Deputy Director of Technical Secretariat of Civil Aviation on Thursday, 16 April 2020. The airport in Battambang will be invested by FAiraviata (AAT) Cambodia Regional Airlines Company, which is now studying the location and cost of the project. The project is divided into three stages, and for the long-term will be relocated. For the short-term project, the government will use the budget for the rehabilitation of the old Battambang airport.(This news came from Construction-Prperty.com)