Aircraft charter broker Air Charter Service (ACS) said it has been arranging charters in response to the March 28 earthquake in Myanmar. Several charters have already delivered aid to Yangon in Myanmar and Bangkok in Thailand.

The epicentre of the earthquake, measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale, was less than 20 miles away from Myanmar's second-largest city, Mandalay, but it caused damage as far away as southwest China and Thailand.

"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, with the possibility of ferrying into regional airports on smaller aircraft, or by road, from there," said Ben Dinsdale, Air Charter Service's director for Government and Humanitarian Services.

"Over the weekend we chartered two aircraft into Yangon carrying more than 40 tons of aid, with another landing in Bangkok on Monday with almost 30 tons of medical supplies from the Middle East We have several more scheduled into Myanmar over the next few days and our offices around the world are continuing to receive calls with requests to get aid to the affected areas."

Dinsdale said ACS would continue to work round the clock to support the aid agencies involved in the relief operation.