Issue 32 : Oct/Dec 2004

Airlines and airports

Bangkok Airlines has also announced that it is planning to create a new domestic airline in Myanmar, to be called Air Bagan. If all goes well, the airline can begin offering services as soon as October, in time for the coming high season, to cities in Myanmar as well as to nearby major destinations.

Downtown Yangon

Air Myanmar will be the name of a new airline that will be introduced to Myanmar at the end of this year, courtesy of the Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways.The airline will be Myanmar’s second international airline after Myanmar Airways International. Initial services include a flight between Yangon and Sydney with a stopover in Singapore and a four-leg route that visits Bangkok, Shanghai, Seoul and Fukuoka, with two Airbus aircraft.

SriLanka Airlines has joined forces with Thai Airways International and Myanmar Airways International to begin offering flight services to and from Sri Lanka and Myanmar through Bangkok.

Daily non-stop flight services between Yangon and Bangkok are now available from Bangkok Airways.

PB Air and Thai Airways International are code-sharing twice weekly direct flights between Bagan and Bangkok on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This route will be in effect until March 2005.

By the end of this year, Thai AirAsia will have commenced flights between Yangon and Bangkok.
Yangon Airways

After 1st June, there were no Immigration and Customs check counters for domestic flights to Yangon Airport. All passengers can smoothly proceed to the departure lounge without any waiting. For the time being, there will still be immigration and customs checkpoints in other cities but this is likely to be changed in the near future.

The modified winter flight schedule for Yangon Airways has been announced. Please contact myanmar@exotissimo.com for more details.

Non-stop flights from Bagan and Heho to Ngapali Beach and vice versa are now available.

 

Exotissimo Bagan moves into new location

Bagan

Please note that the Exotissimo office in Bagan has moved to a new location. The new address and contact numbers are as follows:

No. H 70, Corner 2nd Street and Gan Gaw Road

Khan Laung Quarter, New Bagan

Mobile phone: 09 204 2009

Office/fax: 061 60383