Malaysia Airlines has announced it will expand its domestic and international services in July, with plans to normalise services by October.
This comes as Malaysia is still in lockdown, with domestic travel allowed by Malaysian citizens not allowed to leave or foreign visitors allowed to enter. Malaysian citizens arriving are subject to a 14-day quarantine.
The airline has said that it will adjust its network capacity from time to time before normalizing the schedule in October for both domestic and international destinations.
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Limited services by Malaysia Airlines will include weekly flights from Kuala Lumpur to Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kochi, Sri Lanka, Taipei, Guangzhou, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, and Surabaya; and twice-weekly flights to Dhaka, Kathmandu, London, Osaka, Narita, Incheon, Hong Kong, Perth, Denpasar, Phuket, and Cambodia.
The airline will also offer Kuala Lumpur – Manila flights three times a week, flights to Bangkok and Jakarta four times a week, and flights to Singapore five times a week.
“We are pleased to announce the resumption of our services by increasing capacity to domestic and international routes and we look forward to welcoming our passengers back on board,” says Malaysia Airlines’ group chief executive officer Captain Izham Ismail. “We shall continue to ensure their safety, health, as well as their comfort by introducing new initiatives aligned with international safety and health protocols, as part of our commitment to offer passengers peace of mind throughout their journey with us.”
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At the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak, Malaysia Airlines has implemented various enhanced safety measures and protocols in coordination with health and airport authorities to ensure passengers’ health and wellbeing are taken care of. These measures include temperature checks, sanitization and disinfection of all properties and facilities, enforcement of social distancing, mandatory usage of face masks, and installation of protective screen barriers at check-in counters and transfer desks at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
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