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Austrian Airlines' Vienna-Yangon-Phuket-Vienna flight inaugurated
 Yangon, 6 Nov - A ceremony to inaugurate new Vienna-Yangon-Phuket-Vienna regular flight provided by Austrian Airlines Group-Lauda Air was held at Yangon International Airport this morning.
Minister for Transport Maj-Gen Hla Myint Swe, Minister for Hotels and Tourism Brig-Gen Thein Zaw and Chairman of Austrian Airlines Group-Lauda Air Mr Thomas Suritsch
formally opened the ceremony. Austrian Airlines will operate once-a-week Vienna-Yangon-Phuket-Vienna regular flight leaving Vienna on Tuesdays and reaching Yangon on Wednesday mornings. B 767-300 aircraft, with a seating capacity of 244, that belongs to Lauda Air Luftfahrt AG, a subsidiary company of Austrian Airlines Group that holds 99.08 per cent of possession of the aircraft, will be used. Under the Myanmar-Austria Air Transport Agreement signed in 1976, the regular flight is launched with necessary amendments by the two governments.
The flight was made possible through the coordination between the Department of Civil Aviation and the Civil Aviation Authority of Austria under the directive of the Ministry of Transport, the support and cooperative efforts of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Ministries of Hotels and Tourism, and arrangements between the tour operators of the two countries.
The inaugural flight this morning landed here from Vienna carrying a total of 234 passengers, and 219 passengers disembarked at Yangon International Airport.
The flight departed Yangon for Phuket at 6.50 am with a total of 79 passengers including 15 transit passengers.
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