KUL achieves perfect score in global airport survey 30 Jan 2021 / 16:00 H. Pix for representational purpose only.
KUALA LUMPUR: The KL International Airport (KLIA) International Air Transport Association (IATA) code: KUL achieved a perfect score of 5.0/5.0 and gained top spot in the latest global Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey by the Airports Council International (ACI) for the category of over 40 million passengers per annum (mppa) in Q4 2020.
Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) said KUL’s improved global rank and service levels were further augmented by passing all elements in the Quality of Service (QoS) framework for third quarter (Q3) of 2020 as recently announced by the Malaysian Aviation Commission.
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ISLAMABAD/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Pakistan International Airlines plane has been held back by Malaysian authorities due to a British court case over the jet’s lease, the airline said on Friday, adding it would pursue the matter through diplomatic channels.
The Boeing 777 aircraft was seized after a court order, an airline spokesman said, and alternative arrangements were being made for passengers due to fly from Kuala Lumpur back to Pakistan.
The case involved a $14 million lease dispute, a PIA official said.
“A PIA aircraft has been held back by a local court in Malaysia taking a one-sided decision pertaining to a legal dispute between PIA and another party pending in a UK court,” a PIA spokesman Abdullah H. Khan said in a statement.
PETALING JAYA: As Covid-19 continues to force most international borders shut, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) is taking the opportunity to upgrade its facilities and to gear up towards the expansion of its airports, especially KLIA.
The group is planning to stretch KLIA’s current capacity of 30 million passengers per annum to 50 million.
The number of passengers handled by the airport was already beyond capacity before Covid-19 struck.
MAHB’s plans were in line with its expectations of a return in passenger traffic to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 or 2024.
It has earmarked RM400mil for its capital expenditure (capex) this year, which will kick off with the first leg of big ticket items such as the upgrading of its baggage handling system (BHS) and the replacement of aerotrains.
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): The main index at Bursa Malaysia pared some of its gains at the midday break Friday as regional markets eased from record highs on profit taking.
Meanwhile, Malaysia’s inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), declined 1.4% in December 2020 from a year earlier, bringing the full-year reading to a 1.2% drop. The full-year 2020 deflation is Malaysia’s first since 1969 when the CPI fell 0.41%.
At 12.30pm, the FBM KLCI was up 7.90 points to 1,602.70. The index had earlier risen to a high of 1,605.70.
Losers overtook gainers by 354 to 310, while 770 counters traded unchanged. Trading volume was 3.60 billion shares valued at RM2.40 billion.
(MAHB), which went on an aggressive cost-cutting mode last year, has earmarked RM400mil for capital expenditure this year as it gears up for an air travel recovery by 2023.
Among plans in the pipeline are big-ticket items such as the upgrading of its baggage handling system (BHS) and the replacement of aerotrains at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
Its longer-term plan would be to stretch KLIA’s current capacity of 30 million passengers per annum to 50 million.
This is part of the group’s five-year strategic plan where it will focus on survival for the first two years and recovery over the next three years.