Myanmar Airlines with cheap flights to Yangon & domestic

It looks like finally the 21.century came to Myanmar in terms of airlines.

Domestic air travel is still operated mainly with ATR turboprop aircrafts from France. Yangon Airways and the others on domestic routes use them. Myanma Airways has some old Fokker jets to be used on the longer distance flights to Sittwe and Kawthaung plus some ancient Fokker turboprops, MIA (Myanmar Airways International) has also 2 airbus 320.

Yangon is one of Asia's most interesting flight destinations served by several airlines. The first things to consider is your airfare, once you are in the country there are several airlines to choose for various destinations.

The country is approximately the size of France and England

combined. From the glaciers of Tibetan Himalayas off shots to the exotic Andaman Islands in the south of the country. All destinations are served by various companies who also compete each such as Yangon Air, Air Bagan,Myanma Airways and Air Mandalay. They all use rather small aircraft such as old Fokker jets and turboprops plus ATR turboprops from France.

You can save some money when you go airline shopping once you are at Yangon and want to travel beyond. A easy approach is visit the Vegas air travel agent downtown in the Central Hotel building and opposite Bogyoke Aung San Market. They work quite efficient and have reasonable prices. In general consider about $ 100,- for each flight in average on domestic routs. For

some flights you need a permission from the authorities which is usually granted but takes around 2 weeks time since the handling of this is done at the new capital at Naypyidaw. Here are some basic travel tips when visiting the country, you should also keep in mind that all infrastructure is not good at all and electricity wont even work in the big cities it's on and off continuously. Only hotels which have their own generator function 24 hour without major problems. Also the hygienic circumstances everywhere are usually hair raising unless you are in good hotel or accommodation, read more.
Here is a typical route map of a domestic carrier, in the case Yangon Air (click to enlarge) but all other have more or less the same. Considering that the country has the size of England and France together this is rather a little thing. Hopefully with the current exponential rising in tourism with will change to the positive, means much more destinations coming but since everything goes in slow motion here it might take another decade or so. There are so many stumbling blocks which haven't been removed yet that it's really time for the authorities to do something to show they take this whole serious and even more important to show that they really capable of doing something beside of bla-bla. A very urgent issue is to address the visa on arrival case, because whatever "lip serving" they do I wont work. The second most important case is to open the land border. It is still not possible to enter at Kawthaung, get a visa and proceed to Yangon. There they have the border computer system available as at the Yangon airport but they still wont allow any foreigner to cross beyond the city limits. With all this great nature spots in south Myanmar it is a real shame on the authorities that they are not capable to handle this. Just getting this bureaucratic hurdle away it would bring wealth to the country and millions of people. The question is do politicians really care about the Myanmar people, frankly it doesn't looks so.
Myanmar airline at Yangon airport The companies serve the ever growing demand for domestic and international flight destinations and are the backbone of tourism. For airlines schedules, departure and arrivals go to the website of the airlines indicated above, there is no use to put timetables here since flight times are changing constantly. The best fares you get when you book through a local travel agent one is indicated above. At the new passenger terminal at the Yangon International airport the tube is even working now since a while. Its only the second terminal of this kind in the country, the other one is in Mandalay the tube wont work there and there are continues power break downs even at the airport which has it's own generator.

The travel agent will send you to the tourist office near Sule Pagoda and they handle it, but this flight restrictions are rather rare, in general you can travel wherever you want but use a package tour from a good local travel agent when you go for exotic destinations such as Putao and other places in the north and north west. The country is different to other destinations, there is almost no infrastructure outside the big cities. If you still want to do everything on your own, which you basically can, ask where is the next monastery when you get stranded, they are everywhere and offer a place to sleep, don't forget a donation when you leave. This a common way to handle this situation.