Malaysia Airlines’ travel fair takes off, offers 500,000 seats

by **hlk** Fri 10 Feb 2012, 19:31

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 10): The Malaysia Airlines Travel Fair (MATF), which was launched on Friday, is offering up to
500,000 seats for travel.
MALAYSIAN AIRLINE SYSTEM BHD [] (MAS) said the MATF, which is until Feb 17, was providing more special offers for
economy and business class journeys on both domestic and international routes of the national carrier’s network.
“The offers are valid for travel from Feb 10 to July 31, July 2012, except specified peak periods. For some routes, the offers
are also restricted to lean flights on both the international and Malaysian domestic network.
“For the convenience of customers, fares offered will be all-inclusive, incorporating air fare, fuel surcharges and airport
taxes,” said MAS.
Elaborating on the domestic travel offers, it said that they covered 15 routes between KLIA and destinations in the states of
Sabah and Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia as well as six routes within Sabah and Sarawak.
For instance, the one-way economy class domestic travel fares start from as low as RM134 for Kuching-Sibu, RM 144 for
Kuala Lumpur-Alor Star and RM224 for Kuching-Kuala Lumpur while the maximum is only RM 279 one way for Kota
Kinabalu-Kuala Lumpur.
The domestic one-way business class fares start at RM359 for Kota Kinabalu-Labuan in East Malaysia and RM429 for Johor
Bahru-KLIA in Peninsular Malaysia.
The international travel offers from Malaysia cover 13 Asean routes, seven routes each to China/Hong Kong and South Asia,
six routes to Australia/New Zealand, five routes to Europe/Turkey and four routes to North Asia as well as to Los Angeles,
USA.
MAS said the international one way economy class fares start from RM189 to Medan in the Asean region, RM389 to Hong
Kong, RM500 to Taipei in the north Asian region, RM789 to Perth in Australia and RM1,349 to Amsterdam. The
maximum one-way offer is RM 1,749 to Los Angeles.
It added that the one way international business class fare from Malaysia ranged from between RM335 to Medan and
RM7,099 to Amsterdam.