#Mandalay International Airport

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lost ivy
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Mandalay International Airport[a] (IATA: MDL, ICAO: VYMD), located 35 km south of Mandalay in Tada-U, is one of three international airports in Myanmar. Completed in 1999, it replaced the old Mandalay Chanmyathazi Airport as the city's main airport and it was the largest and most modern airport in the country until the modernization of Yangon International Airport in 2008. The airport connects 11 domestic and seven international destinations. Its 4,267 m (14,000 ft) runway is the longest runway in use in Southeast Asia and has the capacity to handle up to 3 million passengers a year.

The Mandalay International Airport project was first conceived by the Burmese military government in the mid-1990s as a way to increase overall levels of foreign investment and tourism in Myanmar. With Yangon boasting the only other international airport in the whole country, the new Mandalay airport was regarded as crucial in achieving a planned 10% annual passenger growth. The hope was for Mandalay to become a hub for flights to other major Asian cities, in particular Beijing, Hanoi, Bangkok, Kolkata, and Dhaka.[4]

On 16 November 2014, a consortium of Mitsubishi Group and an affiliate from Japan Airlines signed a concession agreement with the Myanmar government to operate the airport for 30 years. The joint firm undertook the operation, rehabilitation, and maintenance of airport facilities, including terminal buildings and the airport's sole runway, excluding air traffic control, with operations having begun around March 2015. The agreement's main focus is to generate further expansion of domestic and international flights to Mandalay and to increase passenger traffic through the airport.[

This airport should be somewhere 160km away from radang aiport cause yk thailand

and also very cool looking airportgreat

rain cliff
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i like the name

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mandalay is a fun word

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also cool buildings

timid kernel
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no expansions to kyo after udyanapura

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but this is cool

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if this were to be added this would facilitate a remodel of mengtai

lost ivy
vale sierra
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i dont believe any kyokkou remodels are planned because the continent was confirmed to be finished iirc

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bit of a shame but im not gonna complain

timid kernel
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bilabadi remodel and kibo remodel are coming sopon

vale sierra
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oh wait what

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wtf i had no clue about this

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so basically just no more new content

timid kernel
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ye

floral ice
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I don't really like the current Burma/Myanmar situation but cool airport, I support great

sterile cipher
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mandalay? like mandalay bay?

floral ice
sterile cipher
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lmao

lost ivy
floral ice
lost ivy
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the good thing we only get here is like 4 hours of eletricity tbh

sterile cipher
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damn

floral ice
sterile cipher
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its still weird seeing single runway airports because thats so uncommon in the us unless its just a grass airfield

floral ice
sterile cipher
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oh damn

floral ice
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also wait you're from Burma?

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nice

lost ivy
sterile cipher
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i think like all of my local airports have at least 3 runways

lost ivy
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crazy that they could even land 747s on those

floral ice
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It's the largest International airport in the country

rain cliff
pallid plume
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It would have been nice to see this though

lost ivy
pallid plume
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fair point