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AirAsia urged to fly Sarawak more

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By SHARON LING

 

KUCHING: Sarawak would like budget carrier AirAsia to increase its number of flights into the state to help bring in more visitors.

 

Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister's Department, Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman, said the state had a lot of attractions to offer tourists but lacked connectivity to the outside world.

 

"Sarawak is still quite isolated and we need more flights to bring in more tourists.

 

"I believe AirAsia can play a complementary role to help enhance our connectivity," he said when opening the carrier's refurbished sales office here Monday.

 

He requested AirAsia to introduce more direct flights to various Sarawak destinations including Bintulu, which is set to boom when the Sarawak Regional Corridor Development Authority (Recorda) project is launched soon.

 

Source: TheStar

 

This guy must not understand AK, when things like FAX happened they start blaming each other again!

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This guy must not understand AK, when things like FAX happened they start blaming each other again!

 

 

i will agree with that chan......when ak operate they salute....but when therer is a problem...they complain...now what?? :unknw:

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AirAsia to fly to more foreign cities from Kuching

 

KUCHING: Budget carrier AirAsia plans to add more international destinations from Kuching, starting with Jakarta and Singapore, following the introduction of its Kuching-Macau flight.

 

AirAsia chief executive Datuk Tony Fernandes said the Kuching-Jakarta route was the first on its list of new destinations, to be followed by Kuching-Singapore.

 

“It looks like it’ll be (introduced) in the first quarter (of next year). These are our two priorities,” he told reporters during the launch of the Kuching-Macau flight by Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud at the Kuching International Airport yesterday.

 

Fernandes said AirAsia was also looking at introducing flights to Shenzhen and Guangzhou in China, following positive response from Chinese passengers to the Kuching-Macau flight.

 

“The Macau response has been much bigger than we expected. Many Chinese from Zhuhai and Guangzhou are coming and Kuching has struck a chord with them,” he said.

 

In addition, AirAsia X could be flying the Kuching-Perth route in about eight months’ time.

 

“For Perth, we would like to use a bigger plane, the A330, and we’re a bit short of those planes at the moment,” Fernandes said.

 

With its Macau route, AirAsia is currently the only airline to serve an international destination from Kuching.

 

“We started five years ago with two flights to Sarawak, now, we have 200 flights a week. Looking at the next five years, we believe we’ll have 560 flights in Sarawak, moving almost 4mil people,” Fernandes said.

 

Hoho.... great news....

 

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?f...&sec=nation

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