Direct flights between Macau and Pyongyang, which were scheduled to be resumed after a 15-year hiatus this month, will only get off the ground in the middle of next month, Rádio Macau has quoted the local airport operator CAM as saying.
The Portuguese-language radio channel of government-owned broadcaster TDM reported on Thursday that according to an unnamed CAM source the final authorisation of the resumption of regular flights between Macau and the North Korean capital was still pending. The source said the green light to get the Macau-Pyongyang route back into business depended mainly on Air Koryo, the flag carrier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
State-owned Air Koryo ran regular Macau flights between 1996 and 2004 as part of its Pyongyang-Bangkok route.
