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With the revision of the air services agreement between Bhutan and Myanmar, Bhutanese airlines can now exercise third and fourth freedom traffic rights and fifth freedom traffic rights. The delegation from Myanmar was led by the director general of the country’s civil aviation department, Min Lwin.
The designated airlines will have the right to operate passenger and cargo services with unrestricted capacity, frequency and aircraft type to and from all points in Myanmar other than Yangon and up to a total of five services each way per week to and from Yangon.
The designated Bhutanese airline will have the right to exercise the fifth freedom traffic rights, in each direction on the routes specified, at five freely selected intermediate points and five freely selected beyond points with exception of some sectors. The Yangon-Gaya and vice versa (VV), Mandalay-Gaya and VV, Yangon-Bangkok and VV, Yangon-Singapore and VV and Yangon-Kuala Lumpur and VV sectors have received the exception.
Also, the designated airlines can operate two frequencies per week using any aircraft type on the Mandalay-Gaya, Yangon-Bangkok and Yangon-Singapore or Yangon-Kuala Lumpur sectors.
The civil aviation authority is optimistic that the government of Myanmar will continue to respond positively to the opportunities in future to expand the bilateral relations in the aviation industry. “We in Bhutan are particularly happy with the growing relations between the two countries,” the director said.
The director added that the two countries always enjoyed close and friendly relations. Both are Buddhist countries and have pilgrimage sites for Buddhists from around the world.The agreement to this effect between the two countries was signed in Thimphu yesterday.
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