Dhaka, April 2 -- Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged several charter flights carrying aid to Myanmar and Thailand following last week's devasting earthquake.

The charter firm said it had delivered aid to Yangon in Myanmar and Bangkok in Thailand following the quake, which measured 7.7 on the Richter scale.

The epicentre was less than 20 miles from Myanmar's second-largest city, Mandalay, resulting in the closure of the airport and making aid operations more complex.

Ben Dinsdale, ACS director for government and humanitarian Services, said: "With Mandalay's main airport currently unavailable, and many of the local airports in the country unable to accept large aircraft, we have been having to use Yangon to fly the bulk of the aid in...