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Myanmar Airways International - A Brief History
More Recent Development 2001-2003
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2002 Highlights
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2005 Highlights
Myanmar Airways International - A Brief History
Myanmar's original and only national airline was
called Union of Burma Airways and began operations
in the 1950s when the country was still known as
Burma. In the early 1970s it was renamed Burma
Airways Corporation and continued services under
this name until 1988, when Burma was officially
renamed Myanmar and the airline was renamed Myanma
Airways.
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) took off in
August 1993, created by a joint venture between
Myanma Airways and Singapore interests with the
support of Royal Brunei Airlines.
With a new Singapore management team (many
ex-Singapore Airlines staff), new Boeing aircraft
with all expatriate cockpit crew, better-trained
flight attendants and new UK Civil Aviation
Authority operating standards, this was the
beginning of a successful new era for our national
airline. Meanwhile, Myanma Airways (UB) continued
operations as a purely domestic carrier for the
local population.
MAI became the international airline of Myanmar with
regular flights between Yangon (the commercial
capital of Myanmar) Singapore, Kuala Lumpur,
Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kunming, Dacca and Jakarta. MAI
continued to develop regionally.
MAI's potential continued to attract investors and
in February 2007, a new joint venture was formed in
which Myanma Airways retained 51% and Region Air
(HK) Ltd., took 49% stake.
Our aircraft are currently operated by an
internationally experienced team of skilled aviation
personnel.
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More Recent
Developments (2001-2004)
2001 - Highlights.
A new corporate identity and aircraft livery
was rolled out to reflect our new modern and
professional company culture.
By moving our head office to new premises in
Sakura Tower, we increase administrative
efficiency and provided an improved working
environment for our employees.
We completed our first major cabin crew
upgrade program. |
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2002 - Highlights.
We obtained our own new IATA airline
designator codes (8M/599) and joined both
the IATA Multilateral Interline Traffic
Agreement (MITA) and IATA Clearing House (ICH).
As a result we are able to operate more
efficiently and professionally with enhanced
international credibility.
122 of our employees were sent on both local
training courses and overseas training
courses at Malaysian Airlines and Royal
Brunei Airlines training centers. |
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2003 - Highlights.
We launched our first joint service code
share agreement with Thai Airways
International on the Bangkok-Yangon-Bangkok
route.
We added two new aircraft to our fleet: a
Boeing 737-800 and a MD-82.
We increased flight frequency to Bangkok
from 9 to 10 flights per week and to
Singapore from 3 to 5 times per week.
We re-launched our Hong Kong route offering
2 flights per week.
A further 61 employees were sent on local
and overseas professional training courses. |
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2004 - Highlights.
We Increased frequencies to Bangkok from 10
to 13 flights per week.
We commenced 3 flights per week to New
Delhi, India--newest destination.
We resumed our seasonal twice-weekly service
to Hong Kong.
We increased flight frequency to Kuala
Lumpur from 2 to 3 flights per week.
We have new uniforms for all our ground
staff and recruit a further 16 new cabin
crew trainees.
2005 - Highlights. |
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