Luang Prabang to Siem Reap via Siem Reap Airlines

We booked all our flights on a Discovery Pass for the first week in Feb 09, which included our trip from LP to Siem Reap with Siem Reap Airlines..................However, we have just been informed by BKK airlines, that this route is no longer available and we now have to go BKK Airlines via Bangkok and onward to Siem Reap. Has anyone else come across this problem.

Luang Prabang to Siem Reap via Siem Reap Airlines

it is no doubt due to the fact that siem reap airways is currently not operating due to it appearing on the EU ban list (the cambodian authorities have stopped it from flying until it has sorted that out)

Luang Prabang to Siem Reap via Siem Reap Airlines

Vietnam Airways flies this route, but you will have to book with a travel agent.

Lao Airlines also fly this route on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursday and Saturdays

We%26#39;re also flying LP to SR the first week in February on Discovery Airpass, but haven%26#39;t heard anything from Bangkok Airways about a route change. How big a problem is this, and what does the re-routing via Bangkok add to the flight time? I%26#39;m trying to think through the implications of the suspension of the LP-SR route for Discovery Airpass users, and am a bit worried that other posters are suggesting alternative airlines.

I booked a flight from LP to SR on Vietnam Airlines via Expedia. January. $237 USD for one ticket.

I would check with your local agent who supplied your Discovery Pass. We had a brief phone call to tell us of a flight time change from BKK to LPG (The first leg of our journey), and it was only because we requested confirmation of this by E-mail that we noticed the change to our flights from LPG to SR. We queried this and was told that this route is no longer operating.

So, in answer to your question, in our case, we now have a 12 -30pm flight from LPG to BKK and our flight onward to Siem Reap is not until 5-30pm so we now have something like a 3 hour wait at BKK Airport. So we basically lose a day, because the other flight would have meant we arrived at Siem Reap around 3-30pm we will now not arrive until about 7-30pm!!

Not v. happy but not much we can do about it now.

BUT do contact your Agent and please let me know what you are told.

Whatever the outcome, hope you really enjoy your holiday in LPG and Siem Reap. This will be our second time to Siem Reap, it is the most amazing place.

Regards

Sandy and Chris Frewin

Thanks for the information, Sandy and Chris. We were booked Luang Prabang to Siem Reap on 3 February 2009 on FT634 leaving at 12:10 PM. I am trying to get in touch with a Bangkok Air office--a bit difficult right now because I am in Japan and the Fukuoka office I had originally used closed 31 Oct. But I%26#39;ll keep trying their offices in Hiroshima and Tokyo via Skype, and keep sending them emails.

Someone on another travel forum who is flying LP-SR the first week of February (the same as us) writes that their Discovery Airpass LP-SR flight was changed to one operated by Lao Airlines. It takes three hours, with a ';technical stop'; in Pakse. I might try for that, though it flies on the day after the day I%26#39;d booked. Depends on how you want to ';lose'; your time, I guess--in BKK or with an extra day in LP and one less in SR.

';direct'; flight with lao airlines is better option; i suspect you have been re-routed onto bangkok because of their common ownership; as u be aware, veitnam airlines is not an option for you with your discovervy pass.

I got the call and they are rerouting us through BKK for our flight in January. Not happy about the layover in BKK either as we lose the day. Thought I might check with Bangkok Air once we are in Bangkok to see what the story is/other options, as our hotels are all booked already and can%26#39;t adjust dates.

Let me know if you find out anything else/I will do the same.

Yes, I also recently found out the same, only I was%26#39;nt told about it, I just noticed the flight had vanished off the radar on Bangkok airways online booking site, luckily they code share with siem riep airways, who have been grounded by the EU as unsafe carriers. We like you will lose half a day travelling back to Bkok %26amp; onward to Siem Riep, but at least they are honouring our flights and getting us there.

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