Once one of the most modern airports in Southeast Asia, Yangon [Rangoon] International Airport (IATA: RGN/ ICAO: VYYY)-opened in 1947 by the Calcutta Metropolitan Airports Authority on the site of the former Royal Air Force Mingaladon-remains the international gateway to Myanmar [Burma]. The country's other major airports are at Mandalay (MDLA/YMD) and Nay Pyi Daw (NYTA/YNT), the new capital of the country. To cater to a surge in tourism to Myanmar-following a slight relaxation in tensions caused by the country's military dictatorship-construction of a new international terminal at Yangon began in 2003. Designed by CPG Singapore, and built by Asia World, a Burmese construction firm, work was completed in 2007.
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