Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Mann Yadanarpon Airlines plans to launch flights to Thailand and Singapore in 2015

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                 / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals





Mann Yadanarpon Airlines exhibits at ITB Asia in Singapore for the first time from 29 to 31 October 2014. It is a private airline founded by Lin Myat Tun (the managing director), major ticketing and travel agency Sun Far Travel Agency managers U Kyaw Myo (the airline CEO) and U Than Oo (the airline chairman) with its operations based in Mandalay International Airport. 

Incorporated on 23 July 2013, Mann Yadanarpon Airlines was granted a permit by the Myanmar Investment Commission under the Myanmar Citizens Investment Law in July 2013 to operate air transportation services on domestic and international routes. 


Mann Yadanarpon Airlines received its first ATR-72 aircraft (XY-AJO) on 31 January 2014. A dinner at Sedona Hotel, Yangon, to launch the airline took place on 11 February 2014 and its first scheduled flight to Yangon from Mandalay was launched on 8 March 2014. The airline currently offers commercial flights from Mandalay to Yangon, Nyaung U, Heho, Kengtung, Tachileik among other domestic destinations using two ATR 72-600 aircraft. 

Its flight to Myitkyina was launched after March 2014 while plans to launch domestic flights to Bhamo, Putao, Monywa, Homalin, Loikaw and Kalemyo, all of tourism and/or commercial significance, are in the pipeline.

Mann Yadanarpon Airlines plans to launch flights to Chiang Mai in 2015 on its own using a leased Airbus A320 aircraft.  It has a code-sharing agreement with Air KBZ to sell its tickets for the latter flights to Chiang Mai which will be launched on 1 November 2014.

Mann Yadanarpon Airlines also plans to launch flights to Suvarnabhumi, Phuket and Singapore with a leased Airbus A320 aircraft in 2015. Through ITB Asia 2014, it hopes to find a General Sales Agency and sales agents in Singapore and the region.

Mann is short for Mandalay while Yadanarpon which means "pile of gems" refers to the wealth of the former royal capital of Myanmar. Mann Yadanarpon Airlines' company logo depicts the royal gold of Mandalay's palace and walls, symbolising richness and culture of Myanmar, and blue moat, which symbolises the airline as the link between water and sky.

Mann Yadanarpon Airlines distributes free travel pouches, pens, Winter 2014/2015 Timetables, metallic key chains, shopping bags and a limited number of hardcopies of Yadanarpon, its inflight magazine at ITB Asia 2014.

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