Buying internal flight tickets for Myanmar.

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There are currently four Airlines,used by tourists, in Myanmar.

The fifth one Myanmar Airways (as against MAI-Myanmar airways International) is not recommended and Agents will avoid booking on them for you wherever possible.

http://www.airbagan.com/

http://www.airkbz.com/flight-schedule.html

http://www.yangonair.com/

http://www.airmandalay.com/

All of them use ATr42/72 Turbo props and a couple have jet aircraft (F100) Their aircraft types and their network and schedule are on their web sites,but generally not their pricing.

Non of them currently have an eticket on-line booking system and some tickets are still hand written.

Some of them also have a web booking system whereby you can reserve tickets by email for collection and payment on arrival in Myanmar.

By far the best way is to reserve your tickets through a local Agent,there are many recommended on these forums. The cost will be no more than the ticket value,sometimes a few $'s less, but the big advantage is if there are schedule or time changes the Agent can contact you and advise of the change.

Do beware of a French Travel Agent masquerading as Yangon Air and Air Mandalay, their web site has a HYPHEN in the web name and looks genuine and they ask for 50% deposit,balance on collection in Myanmar. There ownership is shown at the foot of the page with a Paris and Bangkok address

Whilst many travellers have used them successfully there have been reports here and on Thorntree of tourists turning up and finding the airline had no booking and having to buy a new ticket. This happened to me once on their Lao-Air site.

The best that can happen is that you lose some money,the worst is that you lose your money and there are no seats available and you are stuck.

caveat emptor

If you are interested in airlines and schedules this link to Yangon will be useful. Not so many years ago there were only a few International airlines flying into Yangon-now the pages are full of arrivals and departures. Internal flights are listed but not logged for timings. Input RGN into the airport box on the right.

http://www.flightstats.co.uk/home.do

SS

Edited: 8 years ago
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I would like to add that on the websites of most of the airlines, you may find big ticket agencies who are reputable in Myanmar.

You can also purchase the ticket with these agencies.

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Thanks for this SilverSwimmer

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Whilst I have no knowledge the Agent who has blogged this, the pricing may be of use to those planning their trips:-

http://domesticairtickets-mm.blogspot.co.uk/

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I have just come back from 2 weeks in Myanmar and booked flights through a local agent.. and everything went really smoothly. I was surprised at how good Air Bagan was with food and service.

I used Why Not Myanmar Travels and Tours

www.whynotmyanmar.com

whynotmyanmar@gmail.com

hope that helps

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Just back from 2 weeks. We used a local agent, One Stop Travel, Kyaw in Yangon. We had 4 flights,3 of which all were delayed by up to 45 minutes and 3 of the flights were cancelled. Our local agent did his very best at short notice and we managed to get around even though it was a little stressful.

YANGON to HEHO Asian Wings on time

HEHO to BAGAN Air Mandalay Flight cancelled, went with Yangon Airways eventually,flight was 1 hour late.

BAGAN to THANDWE Air Mandalay Flight cancelled used KBZ 45 minutes late

THANDWE to YANGON Air Mandalay Flight re scheduled by 3 hours would miss our connection to Bangkok. Used Air Bagan at the very last minute. 45 minutes late.

As experienced travellers this is all part of the excitement of travel!

If we learned anything for future visits it is.

ALWAYS USE A LOCAL AGENT. AND RE-CONFIRM,RE-CONFIRM,RE-CONFIRM your flights.

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There is an online booking service called oway.com.mm that allows users to book Myanmar flights online and also pay with credit cards.

Oway.com.mm also features more than 400 Myanmar hotels as well as car rentals and package deals.

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This looks very interesting...have you, or anyone you know, used the site yet?

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There was a posting about the site by a recent traveler on another topic under "Oway Online Booking". I have copied and pasted below the user's comment - verbatim:

3. Re: Oway online booking yesterday, 12:55

"We just completed a two week trip: domestic flights, hotels, trekking etc. all paid by credit card through Oway so we didn' have to carry the cash. Easy selecting & booking what we wanted from their website menus & excellent response to on the road requests & issues (not of their doing). Highly recommended. We are experienced, independent world travellers & can't fault their services. This in contrast to many reputable (LP & TA) Myanmar agents who we previously contacted but were just too busy with the uptick in tourist volume to give us the time of day. We only started booking the trip early December. We will be posting a very positive detailed Oway review soon."

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Thank you Everest A, hopefully our experience will be as positive. I'd rather have the tix booked and paid for rather than carry around the extra cash. Cheers.

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I just posted more Oway details as a seperate agent topic.

Also Oway kept us constantly Email updated of the flight changes. Actually many changes!-- so we also took it on ourselves to triple check through our hotels as we went along.

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