PROGRESS UNEVEN ON MYANMAR AIRPORT UPGRADES
September 1st, 2018
THE COLOSSAL potential of Myanmar’s tourism industry combined with a severe lack of transport infrastructure has prompted the government to undertake a countrywide overhaul of its airport network.
Plans range from connecting remote regions using single runway sites to a new international airport for the commercial capital Yangon, but progress on all fronts has been slow and the future of key projects is highly uncertain.
Yangon International Airport (YIA) currently handles more than 80% of the international flights arriving in Myanmar, and the great majority ...
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