Yangon Airport Air  International
Airlines Myanmar

between Bangkok and Yangon continuously, especially Thai International is notorious, they already charge relatively high prices anyway and the in-flight service is lousy compared to the price, actually the Bangkok - Yangon run is one of the moth profitable for Thai International and the Passenger get the most lousy service in return. TG is not a budget carrier they charge full prices. The going return ticket Bangkok - Yangon rate asked at a travel agent in Bangkok -around the Myanmar Embassy, Consulate -is baht 9000,- for Thai International, others ask about Baht 7000,- .

Air Bagan ask for Baht 5700,- with a strange surcharge on top of it, called Embargo Charge -no yoke- read more further below.

Some time ago Air Bagan fought a battle against some English who try to have this airbus declared as not suitable to carry passengers since it was a cargo aircraft before and was refitted in Shanghai China, actually it was bought from a Chinese company. This Brits do really everything what they can to make the Myanmar's miserable, as if they didn't do already enough sh..t in Myanmar during colonial times which brought the country finally into the current situation.

If you want to make any flights out of Myanmar all goes through Yangon, there are no flights to lets say to
Phuket Airport Thailand or Krabi Airport Thailand, only from Mandalay to Chiang Mai there seems to be a flight route, but it also wont work everyday, it sometimes works, it sometimes doesn't.

In short, airlines serving Myanmar on domestic and international routes: Air Asia (AK), Air China (CA), Air India(IC), Air Mandalay (6T), Bangkok Airways (PG), Biman(BG), China Southern Airlines (CZ), China Eastern Airlines (MU), DrukAir(KB),LaudaAir (NG), Mandarin Airline(AE), Malaysia Airlines (MH), Myanmar Airways International (8M) , Silk Air (MI),Thai Airways(TG)

-Some more about Airlines serving Myanmar domestic and international. Air Asia is offering a return ticket for a little bit more that baht 6000,- including fees etc. (but be aware that this is the official price on their website), but when you go to the counter and really want to buy the ticket, -since it's very difficult to buy the ticket at the website, the site doesn't function properly-, they will try to charge you much more, its somehow a scam to lure the passenger to their counter and after try the tricks. Air Asia (Thai) fly out of Bangkok very early in the morning, not every day and have a bad record in terms a delays.

Yangon Airport Check In Counter

Actually Nok Air of Thailand (not flying to Yangon) a daughter of Thai International does exactly the same tricks, both are Thai airlines, just don't trust them they play games with the customer.

- Best flight deals to Myanmar

If you come from elsewhere the best deal would probably be to use Thai International Airlines for the main routing and include Yangon as a additional routing sector, that means you get the Bangkok - Yangon sector for a very low price integrated into the basic ticket. But if you use Thai International and buy a  normal ticket at a travel agent in Bangkok for Bangkok - Yangon -  Bangkok

they ask for the highest price of any airline operating this route. Myanmar airlines are experiencing real boom time currently ( Mai 2010), most flights are full.  getting more busy by the day, new airlines, in particular from China are opening new flights to Myanmar and Yangon. The local airlines are replacing old aircrafts with new ones, now Myanmar Airways International or MAI replaced their old DC9 equipment with Airbus 310.   Flights to Myanmar at Yangon Airport

Avoid Silk Air, its a unpleasant encounter with arrogant people. The result is if you have a connecting flight out of Singapore with this airline nobody cares about you, even when you go to Singapore Airlines and ask for help, they just tell we have nothing to do with Silk Air - ! its the same company !- and Silk Air has no office  at the Singapore airport, this is exactly the procedure happen to me. Finally the Singapore Airline staff told me I can sleep on the floor in the transit hall if I like, does that need any more comment ? So stay away from this people they are a pain in the a... !! - Also the food they serve in-flight

mostly looks like canned dog food, brrrrr its really disgusting.

-A other airline in domestic & international market is Air Bagan,

they have the only rather not so old real jet operating on domestic routes, (Myanma Airways is the other who have a few "ancient" Fokker jets operating), Air Bagan has the same parent company who is the local agent for the Russian Aviaexport company, they are big in trading to and own a few hotels, I cant do any comment on them since I tried a few times to reach them and talk with someone but there is no communication possible.

A rather funny, or maybe not so funny story is how the Myanmar Airline - Air Bagan tries to milk the passenger. Presently they charge Baht 5700,- for a round trip ticket Bangkok - Yangon - Bangkok with some strings attached and brought in a new idea, its the EMBARGO FEE, yes you read it correct. They charge a embargo fee of Baht 500,- on top of the above mentioned price. Ever heard about something like this before? me neither. Anyway their flight is quite good, only the meals are far below standard, but here they are not worst than Thai International who also serves lousy food on this sector, which is one of the most profitable for Thai International, you can see how they value their customers, and both have quite unqualified in flight staff.

I just wonder if it will go ok with Air Bagan into the future since one of their Fokker 100 made a little crash at Putao the other day by not lifting off, probably because it was overloaded.

One of their ATR's also had a little crash. They currently use their airbuses on the Yangon - Incheon (Korea) sector and on other sectors when there are enough passengers.

- MIA - Myanmar International Airlines is flying similar old MD 80 such as

the one from the Thai airline -one-to- go which crashed at Phuket about a year ago.Trucks operate between Thailand and Myanmar but all cargo must be reloaded at the

border. Means the Thai truck carries the goods up to the Thai - Myanmar border, there everything is loaded onto a Myanmar truck to bring it to Yangon, and this happen in the 21. century, even in the 18. Century all this was more easy.  Truck drivers have a hard time on this route -from the Thai border to Yangon- because there is a road block every couple of kilometer and the guys at the roadblocks milk them like cows. All other is simply not possible due to political reason.