Archive for the ‘Flight’ Category

Air Asia, Malaysia

Posted by pktan on May 4th, 2007
File Under: Flight, General, Transport

Air Asia is a low-cost airline based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It operates scheduled domestic and international flights and is Asia’s leading low fare, no frills airline. It is also the first airline in the region to implement fully ticketless travel and unassigned seats. Air Asia has been expanding rapidly and is very popular among [...]


Air Travel in Malaysia

Posted by pktan on May 4th, 2007
File Under: Flight, Transport

Getting to Malaysia is easy with over 40 airlines, including Malaysia’s own carrier, Malaysia Airlines. Malaysia’s primary gateway is the state-of-the-art Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Visitors can take flights from KLIA to all major cities and towns in the Peninsula as well as Sabah and Sarawak.
The national budget airline is AirAsia - which [...]


Firefly

Posted by pktan on Nov 21st, 2007
File Under: Flight, Transport

Firefly is a wholly owned subsidiary of national carrier Malaysia Airlines System Bhd., which has been struggling to make profits while competing with AirAsia on short-haul regional routes. The focus of Firefly is to give a community based services particularly in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle. It will also complement the routes not already be flown [...]


Kuala Lumpur International Airport, KLIA

Posted by pktan on May 5th, 2007
File Under: Flight, Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur International Airport KLIA is Malaysia’s international airport and the home of Malaysia Airlines. Located within the Multimedia Super Corridor and close to the country’s administrative capital, Putrajaya, the airport is approximately 75 kilometres south of Kuala Lumpur’s city centre. It is accessible via the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban Highway/KLIA interchange as well as the Shah [...]


Low Cost Carrier Terminal LCCT KLIA, Malaysia

Posted by pktan on May 5th, 2007
File Under: Flight, Kuala Lumpur, Transport

The LCCT Low Cost Carrier Terminal is specifically designed to suit the Low Cost Carrier (LCC) business model where it would have no travellators, escalators, aerobridges and would be able to have a shorter turnaround time. The LCC Terminal operates on a point-to-point travel basis in line with the low-cost travel business model. There is [...]


Malaysia Airlines

Posted by pktan on May 20th, 2007
File Under: Flight, Transport

Malaysia Airlines started operations in 1947 with the name Malayan Airways but was renamed Malaysian Airways following the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. With the withdrawal of Singapore from Malaysia, Malaysian Airways changed its name into Malaysia-Singapore Airlines. MSA ceased operations in 1972 after the formation of two separate entities - Malaysian [...]


Malaysia Airlines First Class

Posted by pktan on May 20th, 2007
File Under: Flight, Transport

Malaysia Airlines First Class travel is a definite luxury if you can afford it, absoblutely fantastic if you can manage to get an upgrade and a major bonus if someone else (hint* boss!) pays for it. No matter how you get there, the comforts and services are far better than what most travelers are accustomed [...]