The Star
By WONG SAI WAN and NG CHENG YEE
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines will increase its domestic fares by an average of 15% for economy class and 25% for business class in two weeks – the first increase for local routes in 14 years.
But from today – the day when the domestic route is rationalised with AirAsia coming in as a major local airline – MAS is increasing its fuel surcharges and imposing a RM14 administration fee for each ticket issued.
The new fuel surcharge for flights within the peninsula and within Sabah and Sarawak is RM20 – a hike of RM5. For flights between the peninsula and Sabah and Sarawak, the surcharge goes up by RM15 to RM51.
This means that for a return flight between Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu, a passenger could end up paying as much as RM250 extra for an economy class ticket.
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Hi Kelly,
i'm writing to inform that i'd stolen one of your pictures for use in my blog posting. It's the Coliseum pic; i was desperate. If it offends you, let me know and i shall remove it. Hope it's ok.
Hi Straits Mongrel, no problem. Thanks for letting me know and thanks too for visiting and for the link. You have a great blog there. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Kelly, you're a true gem! There's a wonderful aggregate of stuff in your blog... nice to share yah?
Hi Kelly! thank you so much for dropping by. I'm back and will be regular on blogging stuff.
Soaring fuel prices have resulted in such reactions from Airlines all across the world. For the same very matter; Pakistan's national carrier Pakistan International Airlines just declared that it's going to run into losses after five years of profitable operations.
Hi Hasan! It is really good to hear from you again. Welcome back to blogging, that is.
Yeah, all this fuel price soaring is bad for everyone. MAS (Malaysian Airlines) has just announced another surcharge hike. **Sigh**
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