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Malaysia Airlines planning to move some flights to KLIA2
Thursday, 03 Jul, 2016
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New Malaysia Airlines chief Peter Bellew wants to move some flights out of Kuala Lumpur’s main airport to the KLIA2 low cost carrier terminal to cut costs.
The restructured airline says it just posted its first profitable quarter for several years and Bellew wants to continue the momentum.
"Airport costs will be an imme¬diate focus and we are planning to operate some leisure flights from KLIA2 in 2017 where costs are lower by RM33 (S$11.07) per passenger or RM5,412 per flight than the main KLIA terminal. With one flight daily, this will result in savings of RM1.97 million a year," Bellew said in a statement.
"Each and every cost will be minutely checked daily without affecting any quality," Bellew said.
Cost savings will translate to lower fares for customers, he said.
The restructuring process is on track but much more needs to be done, Bellew warned.
"We will stop doing things that lose money. A lot has been done, the profit seen in the last quarter shows that the financial gap between revenue and cost has significantly closed, which tells us that we are on the right trajectory but we need to move quicker and more aggressively to keep up the momentum."
Over the next year the airline will begin rolling out a new website, mobile app, trade reservations system and will begin to market itself more aggressively.
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