MDL Mandalay

How deep the MDL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MDL. This reads the same 13 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 9of the 13 destinations are flown by one airline
• 9destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 61.5%of the destinations name Myanmar Airways International, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MDL

Five airlines appear on the MDL board and they do not hold it evenly. Myanmar Airways International is on 8 of the 13 destinations, 61.5 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 9.1 of the 12.3 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Mann Yadanarpon Airlines on 6 destinations. 3 of the 5 airlines at MDL appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 8 of the 13 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MDL sector is usually another Myanmar Airways International aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for MDL, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the MDL board is daily

Of the 13 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 9 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MDL board is flown 6 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MDL to Pyinmana (NYT) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 7.9 of the 12.3 departures a day, 64 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves MDL is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Pyinmana NYT	Myanmar	Myanmar National Airlines	1	232	plan this
Kanti KHM	Myanmar	Mann Yadanarpon Airlines	3	478	plan this
Chiangmai CNX	Thailand	Myanmar Airways International	4	451	plan this
Kunming KMG	China	China Eastern Airlines	4	804	plan this
Kengtung KET	Myanmar	Myanmar Airways International	5	381	plan this
Kalemyo KMV	Myanmar	Myanmar Airways International	6	258	plan this
Luxi LUM	China	Ruili Airlines	6	398	plan this

The seven destinations out of MDL where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable.

The clock at MDL

MDL keeps Asia/Yangon time, two and a half hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 11:30 at MDL, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six and a half hours. A customs question raised in the last two and a half hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at MDL until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where MDL turns up on the rest of this site

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MDL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 13 destinations above.