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Airline
updates
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| Air
Mandalay |
Air
Mandalay, which operates three aircraft, grounded one of its aircraft
late last year. As a result, slight changes will be made to the normal
flight schedules to accommodate this change.
Myanmar
Airways International (MAI) began offering a new service from Yangon to New
Delhi and vice versa on 15th March. The new service, which is
available three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, is the
first and the only one that flies between the two cities.
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| Yangon
river view |
United
Myanmar Airways (UMA) was scheduled to begin offering flights between
Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Singapore and Yangon in October 2003. The airline
has yet to fly to any destinations and the 31st December 2003
deadline given to the airline by the government has come and gone. With no
word from the airline’s officials, many are speculating that the airline
has run into problems with funding and will close down.
In
2002, work began on expanding the Yangon International Airport.
Since then the runway has been lengthened and another 36 million USD has
been invested to improve the passenger terminal and other facilities.
Road
to connect Myanmar, Thailand and India
In
late December 2003, foreign ministers from Myanmar, Thailand and India met
to discuss the construction of a 1,360 kilometre road that would be used
to facilitate travel between the three countries. The road, which will be
started in early 2004, will travel from Manipur in India through Myanmar
to Mae Sot in Thailand. India has granted Myanmar financial assistance in
the building of the part of the road that will travel through Bagan.
Cruise
schedule changes
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| Delta
Queen |
RV
Pandaw's one night
sightseeing cruise will be changed to explore Sameikkon Village instead of
Thein Gone Village on day one, depart in Mandalay at 11:30 to spend the
afternoon in Sameikkon Village. The next day the cruise will take you to
Bagan.
Myanmar River Cruises’ Delta
Queen stopped offering cruise services to and from Yangon and Pathein on
31st March. The ship will be repaired and reinstated for
services on 3rd September.The
RV Pandaw I, a colonial steamer that was built in 1947, was recently
acquired and renovated by Cruising Hotel. In February, the refurbished
steamer began offering scheduled and charter services on the Ayeyarwady
and Chindwin Rivers.
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