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Nok Air Launch Another Route to Myanmar
11th Jun 2013
Budget airline, Nok Air, is launching another route to Thailand's neighbor to the west with its Mae Sot- Mawlamyine service. Mawlamyine is Myanmar's fourth largest city, located some 300 kilometers south east of the capital of Yangon.
Nok Air will start the Mawlamyine service on September which it hopes to extend all the way to Yangon if necessary in the following month. It is planning to deploy a Saab-340B, a turboprop, which seats 34 passengers. The service will be on a trial basis as it awaits a green signal from the local aviation authority of Myanmar.
U Win Swe Tun of Myanmar's Department of Civil Aviation said that his department has already granted a permit to Nok Air to commence operations of a charter service between Thailand and his country. U Win Swe Tun currently serves as the Deputy Director General of the department.
He further said that they are already preparing the airport at Mawlamyine to receive international flights with the establishment of customs and immigration sections there.
He was optimistic that the new air service will spur economic development in his country, more particularly the city of Mawlamyine, if visitors from Thailand will come and see its potential as an investment destination.
Nok Air will become the first foreign carrier to fly to Mawlamyine and the second airline, after Myanmar Airways, to operate from the airport.
Myanmar Airways currently operates domestic flights from Mawlamyine to Dawei, Myeik and Yangon.
Nok Air will soon launch a direct service between Bangkok and Yangon in November this year while contemplating on the prospect of opening two routes from Chiang Mai to Bagan and Yangon.
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