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Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will offer special airfares and
holiday packages during a travel fair from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6.
"We will offer airfare discounts of up to 60 percent during the fair,"
the airline's area manager, Dzulkefli Zakaria, told reporters here
Monday.
The company will also continue to offer discounted airfares after the
fair in line with the government of Malaysia's "Visit Malaysia"
promotion this year.
Dzulkefli said an economy class one-way ticket from Jakarta to Kuala
Lumpur for travel between Feb. 24 and Sept. 30, for example, would be
reduced from US$145 to $59.
Besides Indonesia and Malaysia, the Malaysia Airlines Travel Fair
(MATF) will also be held in five other ASEAN countries -- Brunei
Darussalam, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Dzulkefli said that the airlines would also offer special holiday
packages in cooperation with the Malaysia Tourism Board in connection
with various events in Malaysia, including a flower festival from Jan.
20 to Feb. 4, Formula One auto race from April 6 to April 8 and the
Kuala Lumpur "grand-prix sale" from March 24 to April 22.
"Costumers can buy tickets from our offices, travel agents or simply
purchase them from our website, www.malaysiaairlines.com," he said.
He said the Malaysian national airline had expanded its ticketing
network from 260 to more than 600 travel agents all over Indonesia as
of Jan. 15, 2007.
According to Dzulkefli, in 2006 the airline flew 127,000 passengers
from Indonesia to Malaysia. This year he expected the number of
passengers to increase by 10 percent.
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