Myanmar Aviation

Malaysian regional operator Firefly, which has up to now marketed itself as a “community airline”, re-launched itself as a low-cost carrier (LCC) on 15 January, firming up plans to operate a fleet of 30 Boeing 737-800s jetliners by 2015. With an initial fleet of three of the jets, configured wit...

Travel IT provider Abacus is seeing significant growth in Asian emerging markets such as Myanmar and Kazakhstan and is “cautiously optimistic” for region-wide bookings in 2012. “Bookings are in positive territory compared with last year. And the first quarter of last year was a ve...

Asian travel technology provider Abacus is seeing bookings up around 3-to-5% so far this year, although performance varied significantly around the region. Chinese tourist outbound traffic is expected to increase from 57 million trips in 2010 to 100 million by 2015, and the market may soon open up f...

Willis signs new AFI KLM E&M deal Willis Lease Finance has signed a new engine and APU support contract with AFI KLM E&M. The “Multi-year” deal will add the GE90 engine series, CFM56-5 series and the maintenance of all types of APU to the previous agreement covering its fleet of ...

Vietjet officially launches Yangon – Ho Chi Minh City route The airline also receives the 28th aircraft   (Ho Chi Minh City, October 13, 2015) – Vietjet has officially celebrated its new route connecting Yangon with Vietnam’s largest business and tourism hub, Ho Chi Minh City. A ceremony ...

GMR Aero Technic becomes the First MRO in South Asia to Receive FAA Approval Market Leader for base maintenance in India Already approved by EASA – EU, DGCA – India, GCAA – UAE, PACA –Oman, DCA- Malaysia, DCA – Bahrain,  DAC-Myanmar, CAAB – Bangladesh, CAAN – Nepal and Cayman Isla...

Singapore Airlines is launching daily services to Yangon on 28 October as it sees the fast-growing Myanmar market justifying a widebody service. Together with regional subsidiary SilkAir, the SIA Group will serve Yangon with 16 weekly flights. SilkAir currently operates 16 weekly flights to Yangon w...

Work on new Myanmar airport to begin in 2014 Construction work for Myanmar’s new Hantharwady International Airport north of Yangon will start in early 2014, according to local media reports. A consortium led by Korean’s Incheon Airport has been awarded the tender to build the Hantharwady Interna...

Honeywell and Hughes in Myanmar ATM project Honeywell Aerospace and Hughes Aerospace are assisting Myanmar’s Yangon and Mandalay international airports to develop satellite-based navigation technologies for optimizing takeoff and landing routes. “We are working with the Yangon and Mandalay airpo...