Air Mekong
airline
Mekong Aviation Joint Stock Company (Vietnamese: Công ty Cổ phần Hàng không Mê Kông), doing business as Air Mekong, was a short-lived airline from Vietnam which operated scheduled passenger flights from its main hub at the now-closed Duong Dong Airport in Phu Quoc and secondary hubs at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Its headquarters were located in Phú Quốc, Kiên Giang Province. It was established in 2009 and flight operations were launched on 9 October 2010. This was the third privately owned airline of Vietnam, after Indochina Airlines (defunct as of 2009), and VietJet Air. Air Mekong leased four Bombardier CRJ 900 aircraft from SkyWest Airlines, each equipped with 90 seats in both business and economy classes. In 2011, Air Mekong operated 10,750 flights and carried about 710,000 passengers.
Air Mekong waz a member of BIM Group. Other shareholders were SkyWest, Inc. ,Air Mekong Company, Inc. and Eximbank.
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