HK, Myanmar discuss resumption of direct flights

Hong Kong Express airline is coordinating with the Myanmar authorities for relaunching Hong Kong-Yangon direct flight, local media reported Saturday. A delegation of the Hong Kong Express is seeking international ticket sale agent in Myanmar for the move, said the Voice. Although the Hong Kong Express airline flights to South Korea and Japan can bring passengers to Myanmar, it hardly obtains full passengers in its return flight from Yangon to Hong Kong, the sale agent was quoted as saying. The Hong Kong Express once flew the Hong Kong-Yangon route twice a week with a 164-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft starting November 2007 but it was halted after about four months. Still earlier, the Myanmar Airways International (MAI), a then joint venture between the state-run Myanmar Airways and the Region Air of Singapore, flew the Yangon-Hong Kong direct flight but was suspended afterwards for market reason. For a time of absence of Yangon-Hong Kong direct flight, passengers traveling between the two destinations had to transit through Bangkok or Guangzhou.