Air Bagan To Start Direct Yangon-chiang Mai Flights

[ChiangMaiMail]

Air Bagan to start direct Yangon-Chiang Mai flights

TAT Director Chalermsak Suranant,left, and Suranart Chaweesup, center, managing director of P.BB. Travel Agency Center Co., Ltd. Announce the new direct flights to Yangon at the Rati Lanna Riverside Spa and Resort Hotel.

Supoj Thiamyoj

Myanmar owned Air Bagan announced a new service from Yangon to Chiang Mai, with the first flight taking off on January 7. The planned schedule has flights two times, on Thursday and Sunday. Chalermsak Suranant, Director of the Chiang Mai office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, announced the planned schedule on December 18 with Suranart Chaweesup, managing director of P.BB. Travel, Air Bagan’s local representative.

The TAT director believes that the new direct flights will make it more convenient for Thai and foreign travelers as well as business people and government officials to travel to Myanmar. He believes that the international links that Chiang Mai Airport has to offer will attract more tourists to Myanmar and the Northern region.

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-- Chiang Mai Mail 2009/12/29

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