post about the Lao Central Airlines
owner: Phongsavanh bank
fleet as of 2012, march : one Boeing 737
they have ordered 3 Sukhoi Superjet 100 due for delivery in future years

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the old livery design

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they ordered 3 of these

Sukhoi superjet 100

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did i post this yet???

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Laos Central Airlines inauguration

The production of Superjets for Lao Central Airlines (Phongsavanh Airlines) has been started in Russia

Tags: Lao Central Airlines, SCAC Aviation Technical Ce, Superjets Posted date: October 16, 2011 | 3 Comments




October 16, 2011



Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) hosted the official visit of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic President, Mr. Choummaly Sayasone. The President visited the SCAC Aviation Technical Centre in Zhukovsky, Moscow.

Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft and simulators, available for pilots training at the Training Center managed by SuperJet International, the joint venture between Alenia Aeronautica – a Finmeccanica Company – and Sukhoi Holding, have been demonstrated to Sayasone.

SCAC President Vladimir Prisyazhnyuk informed about the manufacture’s launching of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft for Lao Central Airlines (previously known as Phongsavanh Airlines) of Laos in the course of execution of the contract on delivery of three aircraft of such a type to the airline. Deliveries of aircraft are scheduled for the second half of 2012.

The deliveries of aircraft are scheduled on the second half of 2012.

http://www.aviatime.com/the-production-of-superjets-for-lao-central-airlines-phongsavanh-airlines-has-been-started-in-russia.html

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from thai forum

cant find a website for this airline does it exist

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http://www.flylaocentral.com/#

^^ the website can be opened now but doesnt work, i like the layout it is very appealing

http://www.flylaocentral.com/#

^^ the website can be opened now but doesnt work, i like the layout it is very appealing

still cant access this site

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Lao central will receive the sukhoi superjet like below

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Southeast Asian carrier Lao Central Airlines will become the second operator of the Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 in the region when it takes delivery of the initial of up to nine aircraft it has on order. The first aircraft for the carrier was recently painted in its full corporate livery at the Ulyanvosk, facility of the designer in Russia. It has a firm commitment for three aircraft and options for six more and type certification for the SSJ100 has already been granted by the Laos Civil Aviation Authority.

Although relatively unknown outside of the region, the carrier holds the position of being the first private airline in the Laos People’s Democratic Republic. It was founded in 2010 as Phongsavanh Airlines, part of the wider business interests of Lao company Phongsavanh Group, which is involved in international trading activities as diverse as timber, hospitality, telecommunications, banking and security services.

A later rebranding took place in August 2011 to raise awareness of the airline as a Lao-based venture in international markets. “We decided to change the name to make us more recognisable locally and abroad. The new name will ensure that people know that we are a Lao company, operating out of Laos,” said Thongsay Inthisane, a senior adviser to the venture.

Lao Central Airlines hopes to expand business rapidly in what is a growing aviation market. It is mainly offering flights in domestic skies with links between Luang Prabang, Pakse and Vietiane, which operates alongside an international service between Wattay International Airport in Vietiane and the Thai capital Bangkok. However, it has ambitions to grow and serve destinations across Vietnam, China and Cambodia, before expanding further in the ASEAN region.

According to Sukhoi Civil Aircraft the carrier is expected to use its Superjets, which will be configured in a two-class arrangement seating 93 passengers, on routes from Laos to Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Singapore. The airline’s website highlights Kunming, China; Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia as other planned destinations for the future.

In 2012, through the operation of two leased Boeing 737-400s, Lao Central Airlines had managed to secure a 13.2 per cent share of the Laos domestic market against incumbent national carrier Lao Airlines and a 5.3 per cent share of international capacity. In the table below we highlight the largest destinations from Laos by O&D passenger demand in 2011. Thailand is the biggest overall point-to-point destination accounting for 38.4 per cent of the estimated 839,000 international passengers from Laos that year, followed by Vietnam (17.7 per cent), Cambodia (16.2 per cent), China (10.5 per cent) and Malaysia (5.8 per cent).

SCHEDULED O&D DEMAND FROM LAOS PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (bi-directional O&D traffic)

Rank

Destination

Estimated O&D Demand (2011)

% Annual Capacity

1

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International (BKK)

290,059

34.6 %

2

Hanoi Noibai International (HAN)

125,263

14.9 %

3

Siem Reap (REP)

90,016

10.7 %

4

Kunming Changshui International (KMG)

64,382

7.7 %

5

Kuala Lumpur International (KUL)

48,005

5.7 %

6

Phnom Penh International (PNH)

45,865

5.5 %

7

Chiang Mai International (CNX)

29,273

3.5 %

8

Ho Chi Minh City Tan Son Nhat International (SGN)

20,702

2.5 %

9

Seoul Incheon (ICN)

15,536

1.9 %

10

Tokyo Narita (NRT)

11,705

1.4 %

OVERALL TOTAL

839,493

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Russian to Bangkok


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As a pretty regular Lao Airlines customer on their cheap flights from Vientiane to Bangkok, I was quite surprised when I found out they had grounded their fleet (of two) Boeing 737’s and were now using the Sukhoi Superjet.
This Russian-built airliner, which an insider told me was leased, has a very short but rather dubious history.
While on a round of show flights, to sell the 100-seater to prospective passengers one crashed into a mountain in Indonesia killing all aboard which included media, airline and government officials.
This was the day before it was to travel to Vientiane, as the fledgling Lao Central Airlines had ordered the inexpensive airplane to anchor its growing fleet.
But the price was right for a flight and they had even changed to the departure time to 8:15 pm, so I was able to leave my apartment about 6:35, make to the airport in plenty of time to put Olive (my motorbike) in long-term parking, buy a ticket, check-in, go through customs and immigration and have a coffee and check my email, all before boarding.
When it was time to board I noticed the Sukhoi was smaller than the 737 but certainly was a lot newer. In fact had that new car…er….. new plane smell. The seats and interior were all decked out in green. It was a nice looking plane and as we boarded were greeted by two Russian flight attendants along with a Lao one. It was rather strange.
As soon as I saw the guy I instantly thought KGB, although that agency doesn’t exist anymore and the cold war was over. He was quite tall as was the woman, and they dwarfed the Lao flight attendants.
They were friendly enough but not in a gentle Lao kind of way that I was used to.

After sitting down I made a point of reading the safety card in the seat back pocket I noticed the plane had exits at the front and rear but none on the wings, where I was seated.
Breakfast was soon served and it wasn’t very good. Some kind of sweet and sour shrimp that tasted burned and was very spicy. It included a vegetable that looked like it had been cooked for days with rice and some fruit that was also starting to brown. The coffee that I had with was quite horrible but I didn’t fret too much as for the price and length of the flight it was good to have anything at all. On the Boeing flights however, it was actually a tasty meal and the coffee was great.
The flight was fairly smooth except for one point where our little jet was buffeted by turbulence, which I surmised to be caused by the lack of size of the plane.
Most of the flight was smooth except for one point when we seemed to have a fairly rapid descent a long time before our approach to the SuvarnabhumiAirport in Bangkok.
It could have been my trepidation on being on a plane with a questionable safety record too so I wasn’t too worried.
As we prepared to land I asked a Lao flight attendant for a pen so I could fill out the immigration forms ahead of time, having always experienced such long delays after landing in SVB airport in Bangkok.
She thought about it for a second, looked towards the front of the plane then looked back down at me and said nonchalantly, “No, we don’t have any.” And then she walked away. I was a little gob-smacked and tried to think of a way of blaming the Russians. Vodka, the fall of communism, or were they told to be rude to Canadians because of their lack of dominance in ice hockey.
No worries I thought, hoping it wouldn’t delay me too much in the airport.
I thought of the previous Lao Central flight crew and their friendly Chief Purser named Niew, who always remembered my name and was quick to help with any request, as were her charges.
We landed uneventfully taxied toward the terminal though another difference from the 737 flights was that we were parked on the tarmac and not at one the terminal gangways that are attached to the airport. So we would have to deplane and jump on a bus that would take us to the terminal.
I noticed while on the bus, their was no place for the Sukhoi mapped out like all the other jets. No line for the A330 airbus or the Boeing 767 or 737. Maybe that’s why we were not allowed to go directly into the terminal. Or maybe it was just too early. We seemed to have gotten there in about 35 minutes, which was nice but very surprising.
And those lineups at customs were gone, and a customs worker who I tried to borrow a pen from insisted on filling out the immigration form for me and told me which areas I should not bother filling in. Wow!
I was in Bangkok city in no time after that fast flight and lack of customs lineup.
Even though the flight may have been fast and furious, maybe instead of rushing (Russian?) to build an airline overnight, Lao Central should build their brand slowly and safely. And more friendly!
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