It is reported that Yangon International Airport will resume landing of domestic and foreign relief flights from February 4. Previously, affected by Myanmar's military's announcement of a state of emergency, Myanmar's Civil Aviation Authority announced that the order prohibiting domestic and foreign flights from landing at Yangon International Airport from February 1 to April 30 had been invalid.

It is understood that on the evening of February 2, Myanmar's Yangon International Airport has been restarted, leading to multi-national routes to go around. Earlier, as the Myanmar national defense forces took over power on February 1 and announced a one-year state of emergency, the Myanmar Civil Aviation Authority announced that the Yangon airport would be closed until the end of April. But at present, the order has been voided, and the news of flight recovery came from Myanmar's Yangon airport late at night on the 2nd.

A captain of a domestic airline said that all domestic flights, foreign relief flights and special flights at Yangon airport will resume operation from February 4. During the epidemic period, although foreign airliners were forbidden to land, freight flights were accepted to land.

According to the Ministry of transport and communications, in order to control the spread of the epidemic outside the country, the deadline for banning foreign airliners from landing at Yangon International Airport has been extended to February 28.

Air KBZ also said that flights will resume operation from February 4, and the routes of Embraer e190, which is operated in cooperation with Mai, will also resume. Mai airlines also said that it will resume foreign relief routes from February 3 and domestic code share routes from February 4. In addition, MNA will resume flights from February 4.

Previously, the restrictions on the entry of foreign airliners at Yangon International Airport were implemented from March 30, 2020.

In addition, novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) control and protection treatment Committee issued a notice in February 3rd, saying that during the outbreak of the epidemic, Burma people who had been stranded abroad for various reasons arranged for Relif Flight to take back to Burma, but there were still a few people returning home.

According to the announcement, it is more appropriate for Burmese citizens who stay abroad for a long time to return to their own country as soon as possible rather than suffering abroad. For Myanmar citizens who go abroad through illegal, legal and other channels, the relevant federal departments will, according to the regulations, increase relief air / sea routes to carry out the plan of returning their nationals.

In addition, Air China, China Eastern and China Southern did not start arranging flights between Rangoon and China in February due to factors such as China's Spring Festival holidays. However, after the restart of Yangon airport, Myanmar National Airlines (MNA) and Myanmar International Airlines (MAI) resumed flights in early February respectively.