Qatar Airways launches flights to Yangon

Qatar Airways became the first carrier from the Middle East to fly to Yangon, capital of Myanmar, when its inaugural flight touched down at the city’s international airport on Saturday.

Yangon becomes the airline’s 10th destination in the Far East and its 57th overall on its worldwide network.

Qatar Airways has scheduled four non-stop flights a week between Doha and Yangon using an Airbus A319 in a two-class configuration of eight seats in Business Class and 102 in Economy.

To celebrate the launch of the new flights, Myanmar Airways International is codesharing on Qatar Airways’ services between Yangon and Doha, and onwards to Paris and London Gatwick. The agreement enables Myanmar Airways International to sell seats on Qatar Airways using its own 8M flight designator code.

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said he was delighted to see Yangon added to Qatar Airways’ growing network, “Myanmar is a country that is unexplored, yet has a full tourism potential and we, at Qatar Airways, are pleased to help generate traffic to this country which has plenty to offer.”

From January 18, Qatar Airways will add Johannesburg and Cape Town from Doha to its evolving international route map.

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