Sittwe, 20th June 03: "The regular ticket for the Sittwe to Rangoon air trip costs kyat 18,500. But in Sittwe, the western town of Burma, the same ticket would cost a passenger up to kyat 30,000, quoting a passenger our correspondent writes. In each of the twice-daily flights to Rangoon there are ten ‘specially reserved? seats for the Burmese Army and other defence forces, which again is controlled by the Military Intelligence 10. According to a source in the Burmese airways, if the MI agents find the ten ‘always reserved? seats filled by the defence personnel, they force the ticket sellers and manager of the airways to offer them five or more seats for selling them in the black-market..."