Thursday 28 May 2020

Yangon Airways was renamed Air Thanlwin, resuming flight on 30 May 2020

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image courtesy : Air Thanlwin

Yangon Airways, which was renamed Air Thanlwin after its parent company Air Thanlwin Company Limited and took off on 1 October 2019 months before the first covid outbreak in Wuhan, is resuming domestic flights on 30 May 2020 after the covid epidemic in Myanmar has eased.

Air Thanlwin suspended flights on 30 March 2020 following the country's ban on passenger flights.

According to Air Thanlwin's official web-site at www.airthanlwin.com, its domestic flights depart from Yangon to Mandalay, Sittwe, Tachileik, Myitkyina, Kyaing Tong, from Mandalay to Myitkyina, Kyaing Tong, Khamti, Tachileik, and from Tachileik to Heho and Yangon.

Air Thanlwin has a fleet of two ATR72-212 and two ATR72-212A turboprop aircraft. Its logo is the golden hintha bird, the legendary royal bird of Myanmar.



Image : Temperature check at an Air Thanlwin counter in Yangon before flights in and to Yangon are banned on 30 March 2020.  Courtesy of Air Thanlwin.


As of 28 May 2020, Myanmar has a total number of 206 covid cases including six deaths.

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