PMTair

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

PMTAir

IATA ICAO Call sign U4 PMT MULTITRADE
Founded	14 January 2003 (2003-01-14)
Ceased operations	2008 (2008)
Hubs	Phnom Penh International Airport
Focus cities	Siem Reap International Airport
Fleet size	7
Destinations	4 (at closure)
Parent company	Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd.
Headquarters	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Website	www.pmtair.com[usurped]

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 14 October 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.

A PMTair McDonnell Douglas MD-83 at Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport, Cambodia in 2007.

During its five-year existence, PMTair served the following destinations:^[2]

• Cambodia
  • Phnom Penh – Phnom Penh International Airport – hub
  • Ratanakiri
  • Siem Reap – Siem Reap International Airport – focus city
  • Sihanoukville – Sihanouk International Airport
• South Korea
  • Busan – Gimhae International Airport
  • Seoul – Incheon International Airport
• Thailand
  • Bangkok
  • Pattaya – U-Tapao International Airport
• Vietnam
  • Hanoi – Noi Bai International Airport

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]