MAI flies to North Asia

YANGON: Myanmar Airways International plans to begin flights to Japan’s Osaka and South Korea’s Seoul in October.
MAI’s marketing and public relations manager, Aye Maya Thar, said the airline is has been selling tickets for flights from Yangon to South Korea since last year, through a code-sharing agreement with both Korean Air and Asiana Airlines.
Now it is ready to start up its own flights. Both Korea and Japan will be served by three weekly flights.
“Flights to South Korea will begin in the second week of October and flights to Japan will start in the last week of the month.”
To test the market response the airline offered charter flights to South Korea and Japan from November 2013 to February, this year.
“We operated flights to Japan and South Korea as scheduled charter flights, but from October we will upgrade them to scheduled flights directly from Osaka to Yangon. The number of Japan visitors to Myanmar is rapidly increasing and this is why we decided to start scheduled flights.”
MAI also signed an agreement with United Arab Emirates, earlier this year, to become the first airline from Myanmar to fly to the UAE. The flights will start next year, but the exact date has yet to be announced.
MAI has a fleet of seven 180-seat A320 Airbus and two 120-seat A319 Airbus. It flies out of Yangon to Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Guangzhou, Siem Reap, and Phnom Penh.

sourced: ttrweekly