Air Mandalay to launch new domestic route
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Air Mandalay has announced that it will start scheduled flights between Yangon, Dawei and Kaw Thaung from 11 April 2011. The airline has scheduled nine flights in April, while from May the airline will operate this flight four times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
According to Edwin Briels, Air Mandalay’s Business and Development manager, the airline decided to introduce this new routing two months ago when the new May-September schedule was launched. “Due to the high demand from local people in the south for a punctual, scheduled flight, we decided to launch the route,” Briels said.
Starting from 1 May the airline will also operate three times a week flights between Yangon, Myeik and Kaw Thaung.
“For Air Mandalay the 2010-11 tourism high season was a season of change whereby we hope to have shown our clients to stand by the slogan safety, reliability and comfort” said Briels. “We have changed in a very short time from a one airplane operation (with mainly charter flights) to a three airplane operation with flights according to the schedule. It was a quick change that we made because the market was asking for a more professional and reliable operation and now that the tourism high season is over, we will use the time for more structural changes and improvements.”
As a Thingyan tradition, Air Mandalay will use the month of April to clean its aircraft and prepare for the coming May-September season. At the moment a six-man strong team from the ATR factory in France has arrived in Yangon for final checks and works on Air Mandalay’s aircraft at Mingalardon airport.
“For them there is unfortunately no time to go out and celebrate Thingyan” Edwin says with a smile, “This foreign team of aircraft experts has to make sure our aircraft is operating safe and punctual.”
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