News about Malaysia Airlines

  KUALA LUMPUR (March 14): As the debate on whether or not to shut down Malaysia Airlines Bhd hots up after Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s remark about the government exploring various options, including closing down the national carrier, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng made an attempt to clear the air that the government has not decided on its options.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 13): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is of the opinion that the government should not sell off the loss-making national carrier Malaysia Airlines Bhd, and that the turnaround plan mooted during his tenure as prime minister to save the airline was working.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 12): The government is evaluating various options on the fate of national carrier Malaysia Airlines Bhd and a decision will be made "soon", according to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 23): Malaysia Airlines Bhd said about 13,000 booked passengers will be affected by the temporary suspension of FlyFirefly Sdn Bhd’s operations into Singapore from Dec 1, following the city state’s plans to move all turboprop flights from Changi Airport to Seletar Airport.

PETALING JAYA (Sept 5): Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and AirAsia have suspended flights to and from Osaka, Japan as Typhoon Jebi – the strongest one to have hit the country in 25 years – left a trail of destruction that included nine deaths and a slew of damaged buildings, including flooding and other damages at the Kansai International Airport.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 1): As Khazanah Nasional Bhd moves to implement the second programme to revamp government-linked companies (GLCs), it hopes to accelerate the level of technological adoption by its portfolio of companies under the five-year Transformation 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 29): Sunway Hotels & Resorts newly opened regional sales office in Shanghai targets to push its hotel revenue growth to double-digit from the burgeoning and affluent outbound Chinese travel market.

AS more high-rises and smaller terraced houses begin to spring up in the Klang Valley, urbanites are finding it more difficult to have a “green space” in their homes.