Myanmar's Air Bagan to fly to Chennai soon

A Myanmar national private airline, the Air Bagan, will launch its second international flight between Yangon and Singapore on Sept. 7 following its first to Bangkok, Thailand in mid-May, sources with the airline said on Monday.
The addition of Air Bagan's international flight to Singapore will bring the total number of air routes between Yangon and the Southeast Asian member nation to three. The other two airlines that have flown between the two cities are Silk Air of Singapore and the Myanmar Airways International.
Using a 228-seat airbus A 310-200 aircraft, the Air Bagan has been flying Bangkok daily since May 15 and the airline plans to stretch wing also to China's Kunming, South Korea's Incheon, Cambodia's Siam Reap, India's Chennai and Bangladesh's Dhaka.
Air Bagan has been flying between Yangon and 17 domestic destinations, using two Fokker F-100, two France-made ATR-72, three ATR-42 aircraft and two airbus A 310 totaling nine, according to the airline.
20/08/07 People's Daily Online, China

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