Effective
15 November 2012, its daily flight between Kota Kinabalu and Taipei
will be upgraded from thepresent 144-seater
B737-400 to the 160-seater B737-800 aircraft, offering an extra 112
seats weekly in each direction.
The
B737-800 aircraft with a configuration of 16 business and 144 Economy
seats, provides premium travel experience with on-demand
in-flightentertainment system
at every seat.
Effective
19 February 2013, Malaysia Airlines will also introduce an additional
4 weekly B737-800 flights to the existing daily B737-800 services
between Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.
The
new flights depart Kuala Lumpur at 1.35am and arrive Taipei at 6.20am
every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The inbound flights
depart Taipei at 7.55am and arrive Kuala Lumpur at 12.45pm on the
same days
Malaysia
Airlines Regional Senior Vice
President for Malaysia/ASEAN, Encik
Muzamil Mohammad said,
"With the change of aircraft type and increased services, we
will offer 11flights weekly from Kuala Lumpur and 7 flights weekly
from Kota Kinabalu to Taipei, providing a total weekly capacity of
5,760 seats between Malaysia and Taiwan in both directions. This
development was also possible due to the significant improvements in
the manner we deploy our narrow body aircraft. It has brought the
double benefit of allowing us to operate more services for increased
revenue generation and by flying the aircraft more often we reduce
the cost of every seat kilometre flown”.
“The
Malaysian tourism industry is targeted to
contribute RM104 billion to the country’s Gross National Income by
2020. To achieve this ambitious growth target, Malaysia will need to
achieve 36 million tourist arrivals in 2020 from 24 million in 2009,
at approximately 1.5 times growth. Malaysia Airlines will continue to
contribute improved tourist arrivals to Malaysia by gradually
increasing international connectivity through its own flights and
also by leveraging on existing code share arrangements with other
full service carriers."
added Muzammil.
Malaysia
Airlines is also offering attractive offers to Taipei from now till 5
Nov 2012 for the travel period from now till 30 June 2013.
The all-inclusive promotional
return economy class airfare from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei starts from
only RM1159 and starts from RM969 from Kota Kinabalu to Taipei.
The all-inclusive return fare on business class from Kuala
Lumpur to Taipei starts from only RM3179 and starts from only RM2679
from Kota Kinabalu to Taipei.
Customers
planning their travel on the above services can book and pay through
all distribution channels mainly www.malaysiaairlines.com, Malaysia
Airlines 24 hours toll
free number 1 300 88 3000, MH Buddy in Malaysia
Airlines Facebook, MHmobile, Malaysia Airlines ticket offices
and appointed agents throughout Malaysia
