Malaysia Air services to city up

Malaysia Airlines will add one service to its Kuala Lumpur-HCMC schedule this summer to bring the number of weekly flights to 21.
Zuraidi Saisi, area manager of Malaysia Airlines in Vietnam, told the Daily that the airline now flew thrice between Kuala Lumpur and HCMC every day except Sundays when it had two. There will be three flights a day on Sunday from July.
With the additional flight to HCMC and the existing daily service to Hanoi, Malaysia Airlines will conduct 28 weekly flights between Kuala Lumpur and Vietnam. This number equals the weekly flights of Thai Airways International for the Vietnamese market.
Thai Airways is now regarded as the biggest foreign full-serviced airline active in Vietnam in terms of flight frequencies as the carrier operates four daily services between Bangkok and Vietnam’s two largest cities – HCMC and Hanoi.
Saisi said Malaysia Airlines’ seating occupancy of the flights to HCMC averaged 75% and that Vietnam’s aviation market was growing significantly.
Last week Malaysia Airlines started its “Global Deals, Dream Getaway” campaign for passengers to book discount air tickets until May 24 for travel to various destinations within its network, including ASEAN, Europe, Australia and New Zealand until March 31, 2012.
“We’re offering discounts up to 60% off normal market fares during this promotion and it covers all travel segments ranging from business to economy passengers,” he said.
Passengers from HCMC can purchase all-inclusive return fares to Kuala Lumpur from some VND11.32 million for Business-class travel and some VND3.15 million for Economy-class travel.
For passengers traveling from Hanoi, the all-inclusive return fare for the Business-class travel starts from VND12.24 million to Kuala Lumpur, VND40.87 million to Melbourne, VND47.53 million to Paris and VND47.32 million to Frankfurt.
The Economy-class fare costs from VND5.42 million for the flight from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur, VND10.38 million to Jakarta, VND19.77 million to Melbourne, and VND25.24 million to Amsterdam among others.