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Malaysia Airlines Mounts Extra Flights for Chinese New Year

KLIA, 18 December 2019: Malaysia Airlines will be adding extra flights to selected key domestic and international destinations to cater to the surge in demand for air travel during the Chinese New Year holidays in January 2020.

A total of 16,720 additional seats are being offered by the national carrier through 22 extra flights and 34 upgraded flights to be operated from 21 January until 2 February 2020.

The extra 22 return flights will be operated as follows: -

 

Routes

Extra Flight(s)

Kuala Lumpur – Sibu
*for travel on 24, 28 & 29 Jan 2020

3

Kuala Lumpur – Miri
*for travel on 24 & 25 Jan 2020

2

Kuala Lumpur – Penang
*for travel on 23, 24 & 28 Jan 2020

3

Kuala Lumpur – Alor Setar
*for travel on 23 & 28 Jan 2020

2

Kuala Lumpur – Sandakan
*for travel on 23 & 28 Jan 2020

2

Kuala Lumpur – Tawau
*for travel on 23 Jan 2020

1

Kuala Lumpur – Kuching
*for travel on 23 until 24 Jan 2020

2

Kuala Lumpur – Singapore
*for travel on 23 until 29 Jan 2020

7

 

The 28 return flights that will be upgraded from the 160-seater B737-800 to the 287-seater A330-200 and A330-300 aircraft are for the following routes:

 

Routes

Extra Flight(s)

Kuala Lumpur – Kota Kinabalu
*for travel on 23 & 28 Jan 2020

2

Kuala Lumpur – Langkawi
*for travel on 24 Jan 2020

1

Kuala Lumpur – Hong Kong
*for travel on 23 Jan until 2 Feb 2020

11

Kuala Lumpur – Singapore
*for travel on 21, 22, 27, 29, 30 Jan and 2 Feb 2020

6

Kuala Lumpur – Hanoi
*for travel on 27, 29 & 31 Jan 2020

3

Kuala Lumpur – Bangkok
*for travel on 25 & 27 Jan 2020

2

Kuala Lumpur – Kuching
*for travel on 24, 25 & 28 Jan 2020

3

 

Malaysia Airlines will also be upgrading six return flights from the 286-seater A350-900 to the 486-seater A380-800 aircraft for the following route:

 

Routes

Extra Flight(s)

Kuala Lumpur – Tokyo (Narita)
*for travel on 23 – 26, 28 & 30 Jan 2020

6

 

Malaysia Airlines Group Chief Executive Officer Izham Ismail said, “This is a practice that we do every year to cater to the demand for travel during the festivities. We will be increasing 32% of our seat capacity from last year, to allow our customers, especially those who are only available to travel at the very last-minute, to be with their family and loved ones over Chinese New Year. We will also be deploying wide-body aircraft of type A330-200 and A330-300, to service the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore and the Kuala Lumpur-Kuching as well as A380-800 aircraft for Kuala Lumpur-Narita routes.”

Malaysia Airlines encourages travellers to purchase their tickets early to enjoy low fares. Travellers can grab fares from as low as RM129 under the MH Lite fare category to Malaysia Airlines domestic destinations, for travel from 21 January until 2 February 2020.

Guests can make their bookings to ‘balik kampung’ on www.malaysiaairlines.com or on Malaysia Airlines mobile app.

 

 

 

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