Nyaung U Airport

Nyaung U Airport
Bagan Nyaung Oo Airport, February 2009
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment
ServesBagan, Myanmar
LocationNyaung U (Nyaung Oo)
Elevation AMSL312 ft (95 m)
Coordinates21°10′44″N 094°55′49″E / 21.17889°N 94.93028°E / 21.17889; 94.93028
Map
NYU is located in Myanmar
NYU
NYU
Location of airport in Myanmar
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
18/36 2,591 8,500 Asphalt
Sources:[1][2]

Nyaung U Airport (Burmese: ပုဂံညောင်‌ဦးလေဆိပ်) (IATA: NYU, ICAO: VYBG), also known as Bagan Nyaung Oo Airport, is an airport located in Nyaung-U (or Nyaung Oo), a town in the Mandalay Region, Myanmar. It is the primary air gateway to the ancient sites of Bagan and surrounding areas. It The airport has one asphalt runway measuring 2,591 metres (8,500 ft).

History

On 11 December 2019, the President's Office announced that Nyaung U Airport (Bagan) had been designated as Myanmar's fourth international airport.[3] The designation was intended to promote tourism to Bagan following its inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The government established a direct air route between Nyaung U Airport and Siem Reap International Airport in Cambodia.[4][5]

During that time, ATR 72 and Embraer 190 aircraft were permitted to operate at Nyaung U Airport. Following its designation as an international airport, the Department of Civil Aviation announced that international passenger aircraft up to the size of the Airbus A320 would be permitted to use the airport.[6]

According to a 2020 government source, the airport handled between 400 and 600 domestic and international passengers each day.[7]

As Bagan is a major tourist destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nyaung U Airport has become one of Myanmar's busiest airports, serving both domestic and international visitors.[8]

Nyaung U Airport suffered damage in the 2025 Myanmar earthquake[9] and had undergone upgrades by June 2026.[10]

In Dec 2025, expansion works were carried out at Nyaung U Airport, including widening both sides of the runway by 25 feet (7.6 m), resurfacing the runway and existing taxiway with asphalt concrete, and expanding the aircraft parking apron.[8]

Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of 312 feet (95 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,591 by 30 metres (8,501 ft × 98 ft).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Airport information for VYBG[link removed] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. ↑ "Airport information for NYU". DAFIF. October 2006 – via Great Circle Mapper.
  3. ↑ Mon, Ye (2019-12-13). "ပုဂံ-ညောင်ဦးလေဆိပ်ကို နိုင်ငံတကာလေယာဉ်များ ဆင်းသက်ခွင့်ပြု". Frontier Myanmar (in mm-MM). Retrieved 2026-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ↑ Mon, Ye (December 14, 2019). "ပုဂံ-ညောင်ဦးလေဆိပ်ကို နိုင်ငံတကာလေယာဉ်များ ဆင်းသက်ခွင့်ပြု". Frontier Myanmar.
  5. ↑ "ညောင်ဦးလေဆိပ်ကို စင်းလုံးငှားလေယာဉ်များဆင်းသက်နိုင်မည့် လေဆိပ်အဖြစ် အဆင့်မြှင့်တင်ခဲ့ပြီး သံတွဲ (ငပလီ-မဇင်) လေဆိပ်အား နိုင်ငံတကာခရီးစဉ်ပျံသန်းသည့် လေယာဉ်များ ဝင်ရောက်ထွက်ခွာနိုင်မည့် Custom Aerodrome လေဆိပ်အဖြစ် အဆင့်မြှင့်တင်မည်". Eleven Media.
  6. ↑ "ညောင်ဦးလေဆိပ်ကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ စတုတ္ထမြောက်အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်လေဆိပ်အဖြစ် သမ္မတရုံးသတ်မှတ်". iMyanmarHouse.com.
  7. ↑ "ပုဂံ-ညောင်ဦး လေဆိပ်သို့ ဝင်ရောက်လာသည့် ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပခရီးသွားများအား Thermo Screen စက်ဖြင့် COVID ၁၉ ရောဂါကာကွယ်ရေးစောင့်ကြည့်စစ်ဆေးလျက်ရှိ". Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese).
  8. 1 2 "ပုဂံ-ညောင်ဦးလေဆိပ်ကို အဆင့်မြှင့်တင်ခြင်းလုပ်ငန်းများဆောင်ရွက်နေ". Popular Journal. 22 December 2025.
  9. ↑ "Bagan–Nyaung U Airport undergoes upgrades following earthquake damage". Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd. Retrieved 2026-07-02.
  10. ↑ "ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ဦးမြထွန်းဦး ပုဂံ-ညောင်ဦးလေဆိပ်နှင့် မန္တလေးအပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာလေဆိပ် ကြည့်ရှုစစ်ဆေး". Ministry Of Information. Retrieved 2026-07-02.
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