China View 2008-04-29
YANGON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar Airways International (MAI) has temporarily suspended again its international flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur since its last flights to the two destinations in the past week, the leading local news journal Myanmar Times reported in this week's issue.
The suspension will last until the end of next month when the air routes would probably be resumed with new aircraft to replace the old one, the airline's marketing department was quoted as saying.
The MAI once stopped its flights to the two Southeast Asian capitals in October last year allegedly out of insurance issues but resumed on Jan. 15 this year after the purchase of a 114-seat airbus A 319, according to the report.
Flight between Yangon and Singapore will be continued to be run by the MAI's code-sharing partner Jetstar, the report added.
MAI is a joint venture between the state-run Myanmar Airways and the Region Air of Singapore set up in 1993 for sole international service covering flight destinations of Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Meanwhile, three other Myanmar private airlines -- Air Mandalay, Yangon Airways and Air Bagan, in addition to their domestic flights, have extended their services as regional flights to Chiangmai, Phuket, Bangkok, Singapore and Incheon respectively.
However, the Air Bagan's Singapore flight had to be suspended since last November 4 due to sanctions by the United States, the airline said, adding that it will seek resumption of the flight by the peak tourist season of September this year.
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