The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
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.
"Customers 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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