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Mann Yadanarpon Airlines Inflight Magazine Issue 5 • September 2017 The 80,000: MRAUK U'S SHITTAUNG PAGODA HSIPAW TREKKING: Hills of content On the pilgrim trail at SHWESETTAW PAGODA FESTIVAL Discovering THE MAGIC OF NGAPALI [email protected] Mann Yadanarpon Airlines Inflight Magazine Contents Issue 5 • September 2017 28 18 The 80,000: Mrauk U's Shittaung Pagoda 28 Hsipaw Trekking: Hills of content 34 Contents Issue 5 • September 2017 11 Mann Yadanarpon achieves IOSA Registration 34 On the pilgrim trail at Shwesettaw Pagoda Festival 42 Discovering the magic 42 of Ngapali Regulars 6 Corporate Profile 8 Mann Yadanarpon Airline's Management 48 Mann Yadanarpon Destinations 55 Route Map 56 Travel Tips 58 Flight Schedule 62 Passangers Sales Agents Head Office No.3, Thalarwaddy St, 7th mile, Mayangone Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Hunt Line: (+95-1) 656969 Fax: (+95-1) 656998 , (+95-1) 655562 E-mail: [email protected]; 11 [email protected] All rights reserved. No part of this publishing may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means including electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior consent of the Publisher in writing. Opinions expressed in Yadanapon are solely those of the writers and are not necessarily endorsed by Mann Yadanarpon Airlines or the publisher, who are not responsible or liable in any way for the contents or any other the advertisements, articles, photographs or illustrations contained in this publication. Corporate Profile About Us Mann Yadanarpon Airlines (MYP) was incorporated as a Myanmar private limited liability company on 23 July 2013, and granted a permit on 27 January 2014 by the Myanmar Investment Commission to operate Our Vision air transportation services on both domestic and international routes. To be the airline of choice for customers by maintaining the highest levels of safety, service and efficiency. Our Mission Our Network Our destinations for the current winter season are We are dedicated to providing quality service that exceeds Yangon, Mandalay, Nyaung-U (Bagan), Heho (Inle Lake), expectations. Tachileik, Kengtung, Myitkyina, Lashio, Thandwe (Ngapali), We respect our employees' aspirations while demanding the Sittwe, Loikaw, Khamti, Mawlamyine, Dawei, Myeik, Kaw- highest standards of performance. thaung and Chiang Mai. All of our destinations are of We share our achievements with the community. tourism and/or commercial significance. We will expand our network to more domestic destina- tions after acquiring additional aircraft. We plan to commence regional operations after we have consolidated our domestic operations. Our Fleet Our current fleet consists of two new ATR 72-600 aircraft which were delivered on 31 January and 1 April 2014 respectively. We plan to acquire additional ATR 72-600 aircraft in the near future in order to expand our network. An Airbus A-320 aircraft will be leased for our future planned regional operations. Our Flight Crew Our Engineering Crew Our pilots are all qualified on ATR 72-600 aircraft Our licensed aircraft maintenance engineers have type. All our pilots’ training are carried out at the ATR type ratings on ATR 72-600 from the ATR Training Training Centers in Toulouse, France and Singapore, Centers in Touluse, France and Singapore. with recurrent and type rating simulator training at ATR approved facilities in Bangkok, Thailand Maintenance of our aircraft is carried out by our own Approved Maintenance Organization approved by the Department of Civil Aviation, Our Cabin Crew Myanmar. Base maintenance is outsourced to approved maintenance, repair and overhaul Our cabin crew training and administration managers organizations (MROS). and supervisors hold cabin crew instructor certificates from the ATR Training Center in Toulouse, France. All of our cabin crew have attended the Airline Cabin Crew Training Course approved by the Department of Civil Aviation. 6 | Yadanarpon Yadanarpon | 7 Mann Yadanarpon Airline's Management Capt. Kyaw San Win Aung Thet Htwe Soe Win Maung Maung Aye Director Director Director Director )Flight Operation) )Maintenance & Engineering) )Safety/Security) )Ground Operations) Than Oo Chairman Capt. Zaw Win Tun Zaw Maung Maung Min Tin Kyi Min Mam Hauk Chief Pilot Deputy Director Director Director )Maintenance & Engineering) )Business Development) )Finance & Accounts) Nang Pia Yee Kyaw Tun )Vice Chairman (1 )Vice Chairman (2 Naychi Thein Yu Yu Kyi Htike Htike Aye Honey Swe Director Director /Company Secretary Director )Admin & HR) )Cabin Crew) )Director (Corporate Quality )Customer Service) Ohn Myint Dr. Lin Myat Tun Dr. Win Ko Ko Win Win Yee Aung Thura Deputy Director Advisor Chief Executive Officer Managing Director General Manager )Finance & Accounts) 8 | Yadanarpon Yadanarpon | 9 Mann Yadanarpon achieves IOSA Registration Mann Yadanarpon has become the first domestic air- in implementation. The IOSA continually updates its line to achieve certification under the International standards to reflect best practices in the industry. Air Transport Association’s Operational Safety Audit The audits are conducted by one of six accredited Audit (IOSA) programme. organisations that have met stringent IOSA training and The IOSA registration reflects Mann Yadanarpon’s qualification standards. safety and reliability, and improvement of domestic The benefits of the IOSA programme area clear for aviation industry. Since its establishment in 2013, Mann passengers, airlines and regulators. The total accident Yadanarpon has maintained a perfect safety record and rate for IOSA-accredited carriers between 2011 and the IOSA registration offers further peace of mind to 2015 was 3.3 times lower than for non-IOSA operators. passengers. Its benefits are recognised even by airlines that are not “At Mann Yadanarpon, safety and service always comes members of the IATA; as of March 2015, 145 (36 percent) first. IOSA registration is an important step in achieving of the 405 airlines on the IOSA registry were non-IATA our ambition of being the airline of choice for customers members. in Myanmar,” said Mann Yadanarpon Chairman U Than IOSA registration is, however, a mandatory requirement Oo. for all airlines to maintain membership of the IATA, He also paid tribute to the efforts of the Mann which is the trade association of the world’s airlines and Yadanarpon team in achieving the IOSA certification. represents some 265 carriers accounting for 83 percent of total air traffic. The certification is valid through to August 2018, when Mann Yadanarpon will again be audited for compliance The association’s mission is to represent, lead and serve to IOSA standards. the airline industry, and the IOSA programme reflects its ambition to drive a safe, secure and profitable air The IOSA programme was introduced in 2003 and is transport industry. designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline and is the benchmark for For passengers, IOSA registration indicates that an global safety management in airlines. airline complies with the most stringent aviation safety rules and practices. The auditing standards have been developed in collaboration with regulatory authorities including the That Mann Yadanarpon has undertaken this process is a United States’ Federal Aviation Administration, Australia's sign of its desire to set the standard not just in Myanmar Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Transport Canada and the but across the Southeast Asian region. Joint Aviation Authorities. It also reflects its vision to be the airline of choice for The process features a structured audit methodology customers by maintaining the highest levels of safety, with standardised checklists, ensuring consistency service and efficiency. 10 | Yadanarpon Yadanarpon | 11 မန္းရတနာပံုမွ IOSA မွတ္ပံုတင္မႈ ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္း မန္းရတနာပံုေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းသည္ International Air စစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ားကို တင္းက်ပ္လွသည့္ IOSA ေလ့က်င့္မႈနဲ႔ အရည္ Transport Association (IATA) ၏ Operational Safety Audit အခ်င္း စံႏႈန္းေတြကို ျပည့္မီထားသည္ဟု အသိအမွတ္ ျပဳခံထား (IOSA) ပရိုဂရမ္အရ တရား၀င္လက္မွတ္ရရွိသည့္ ပထမဆံုး ရသည့္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေျခာက္ခုထဲမွ တစ္ဖြဲ႕စီက ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပး ျပည္တြင္းေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္း ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္။ ေနျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ IOSA မွတ္ပံုတင္လက္မွတ္ရရွိျခင္းသည္ မန္းရတနာပံုေလ IOSA ပရိုဂရမ္ေၾကာင့္ ခရီးသည္မ်ား၊ ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေၾကာင္းလိုင္း၏ လံုျခံဳစိတ္ခ်ယံုၾကည္ရမႈအျပင္ ျပည္တြင္းေလ ေလေၾကာင္းအာဏာပိုင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားကို အက်ဳိးေက်းဇူး ေၾကာင္းလိုင္းမ်ား၏ တိုးတက္ဖြံ ့ျဖိဳးမွုကိုပါ ထင္ပာပ္ေစပါသည္။ မ်ား ရရွိေစသည္ကို အလြယ္တကူသိျမင္ ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ IOSA အသိအမွတ္ျပဳလက္မွတ္ရရွိထားသည့္ ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းမ်ား 2013 ခုႏွစ္မွာ စတင္တည္ေထာင္ခဲ့စဥ္ကတည္းက မန္းရတနာပံု သည္ 2011 မွ 2015 ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း လက္မွတ္မရွိသည့္ေလ သည္ ၎၏ျပည့္စံုေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ လံုျခံဳေရးစံႏႈန္းကိုထိန္းသိမ္း ေၾကာင္းလိုင္းမ်ားထက္ မေတာ္တဆထိခိုက္မႈနႈန္း သံုးဒသမ ထားႏိုင္ၿပီး IOSA မွတ္ပံုတင္မႈ ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္းသည္ ခရီးသည္မ်ား သံုးဆ ေလ်ာ့နည္းခဲ့သည္။သို႔ျဖစ္၍ IOSA သည္ IATA အဖြဲ ့၀င္ ၏ စိတ္လံုျခံဳေအးခ်မ္းမႈရရွိေရးအတြက္ ပိုမိုၿပီး အေထာက္အကူ အျဖစ္ထက္ေက်ာ္လြန္၍ ကမာၻတ၀ွမ္းဆိုင္ရာ အသိမွတ္ျပဳစံႏႈန္း ေပးစြမ္းလိုက္ျခင္းပင္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္။ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ မတ္လမွာ IOSA လက္မွတ္ရရွိထားသည့္ ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္း ၄၀၅လိုင္းမွ ၁၄၅လိုင္း “ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕မန္းရတနာပံုမွာ ေဘးကင္းမႈနဲ႔ ၀န္ေဆာင္မႈက (၃၆ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း) သည္ IATA အဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားမဟုတ္ၾကေပ။ အျမဲတမ္းပထမဦးစားေပးပါပဲ။ IOSA မွတ္ပံုတင္ရရွိတာကေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ခရီးသြားေတြေရြးခ်ယ္တဲ့ ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းတစ္ခု မည္သို႔ဆိုေစ IOSA မွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္းသည္ ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္း ျဖစ္ဖို႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ေမ်ွာ္မွန္းခ်က္ကို အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ အားလံုးအတြက္ IATA အဖြဲ႕၀င္မႈကို ဆက္လက္ထားရွိႏိုင္ရန္ ေဆာင္ေရးမွာ အေရးပါတဲ့ ေျခလွမ္းတစ္လွမ္းပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္”