Malaysia Airlines has been named “World’s Leading Airline to Asia” by the World Travel Awards for the second year running. The award to the national airline, as voted by travel professionals worldwide, was received by Malaysia Airlines’ Head of Customer Experience Datuk Salleh Ahmad Tabrani at the gala event yesterday evening at Doha, Qatar.

The ceremony marked the culmination of a year-long search for the very best travel and tourism brands in the world, including a head-to-head competition amongst earlier announced World Travel Awards’ regional winners for the coveted world-level accolade.

In the previous year, Malaysia Airlines had been named “Asia’s Leading Airline 2010″ and “Asia’s Leading Airline Business Class 2010″ apart from winning the coveted “World’s Leading Airline to Asia 2010″ honour.

The following were nominated for Asia’s Leading Airline 2011

Air China Air India Asiana Airlines Cathay Pacific Airways China Airlines China Southern Airlines Hainan Airlines Company Limited Japan Airlines Korean Air Royal Brunei Airlines Singapore Airlines SriLankan Airlines Thai Airways International

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The AirAsia CEO, Tony Fernandes in his blog said that Manchester United (MU) has  approached him on whether AirAsia would be interested in becoming MU’s shirt sponsor  next season.

The world’s most famous football club wants to proudly wear shirts bearing the name and logo of a Malaysian-born global brand. Doing this would be a first for a Malaysian company and would truly solidify us as a global brand. This pure acknowledgement of us, AirAsia as a global brand to be reckoned with is simply a moment where you just step back and say, “Wow! We’re actually there right now!”.

What do you think about this ?

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The tickets would be offered for sale in Malaysia and in selected Asean countries, namely Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Booking can be made from 10th till 19th February 2009 and travel period from 17th February till 30th September 2009.

Visit MalaysiaAirlines to book.

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Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is running street-style entertainment with the theme “It’s Showtime! With MAS” to delight passengers at 11 locations at the KL International Airport (KLIA) until Dec 31.

In a statement, MAS said the roaming street entertainers would offer children and parents alike memorable experiences before they go for their holidays. The performances include mesmerising encounters with a magician and a living statue as well as opportunities to interact with favourites like “Captain America” and “Willy Wonka”, it said.

“All performers will appear in two sessions: afternoon at 1 pm until 4 pm and evening, 6 pm until 9 pm, twice a week on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. “Showtime by MAS aims to make travelling a memorable and more enjoyable airport experience for families during the school break and festive seasons,” it said.

Via : Bernama

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Good news for Muslim who plan to perform Umrah and Ziarah next year as Malaysia Airlines has launched its Lambaian Kaabah – Umrah & Ziarah 1433H / 2012M promotion package. As low as RM5,600 you can perform Umrah direct to Jeddah for 10 days while to Madinah will cost your RM5,800 for 12 days.

In summary, the package for Lambaian Kaabah – Umrah & Ziarah as below :

The package cost

The Package including

• Penerbangan Kelas Ekonomi pergi balik Kuala Lumpur – Madinah / Jeddah.
• Kemudahan Penginapan Hotel di Madinah & Mekah.
• Makanan dan minuman disediakan.
• Pengangkutan berhawa dingin dan selesa.
• Kunjungan Ziarah ke tempat bersejarah di Madinah & Mekah
• Beg, buku panduan Umrah dan tanda nama.
• Proses Visa, 30 kg elaun bagasi 10 liter air zam-zam
• Perkhidmatan Mutawif yang berpengalaman.

Untuk keterangan lanjut sila hubungi : +603 7863 4000 atau email kepada umrah@malaysiaairlines.com

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In the July-Sept 2011 period, its revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) – the number of passengers flown by an airline multiplied by the distance travelled by each passenger – grew by 27.2% to 3.6 billion from a year ago.

Its capacity measured by available seat kilometres (ASKs), also grew by 17% to 4.5 billion, resulting in a load factor of 80% which was up by 6 percentage-points from the same quarter in 2010.

Cargo-wise, AirAsia X carried 9,220 tonnes in Q3, up 33.2% from a year ago.

For the nine months ended Sept 30 2011, AirAsia X carried 1.9 million passengers, up 42.6% from a year ago. It also posted a higher load factor of 80%, up 5 percentage-points from the previous year.

This brings total passenger traffic to 10.6 billion RPKs and 13.3 billion ASKs, a growth of 46.8% and 37.2% year-on-year respectively.

It also recorded an on-time performance of 89%, where flights depart within 15 minutes of schedule, for both Q3 and year to date.

“AirAsia X is expecting further growth in the final quarter of 2011, as it will be launching its flights to Osaka, Japan from Nov 30, as well as additional flights to Australia and Taiwan in December,” said AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani in a statement yesterday.

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AirAsia BIG Loyalty Programme is finally here.  The best things in life are BIG! It’s time to fly for FREE! Through the participating organisation, you can earn BIGGIES for every RM spent. For example, when you spent RM2 on AirAsia flight, you can get 1 BIGGIES. With BIGGIES you can later on redeem for many items

In brief, BIG Is the first of its kind global loyalty card that gives you FREE flights on the world’s best low cost airline: AirAsia.

The BIG Card doubles as a prepaid payment card, allowing you to earn points (called “BIGGIES”) whenever you spend at all VISA accepted merchants worldwide and BIG Partners. Accumulate your BIGGIES to redeem FREE flights from AirAsia and other rewards. Yes, you’ve read it right. Introducing AirAsia’s new global loyalty programme – BIG.

If you sign up from 14 October 2011 until 13 November 2011, you can enjoy 250 BIGGIES offer. Please take note that the 250 BIGGIES offer is only made via email notification and available to AirAsia newsletter members only.

250 BIGGIES will be credited to the member’s BIG Card 7 days after the promotion end. If you yet to be a member of AirAsia, first thing you need to do is register as member HERE. Then sign up BIG and later get the 250 BIGGIES here.

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Have you tried other airlines for Tokyo route ? For the sake of comparison we have tried few airlines for Tokyo (Haneda) for outbound trip to depart on 1 December 2011 from Kuala Lumpur (KLIA/LCCT) and return on 10 December 2011.

Please take note that we are not able to get Malaysia Airlines (MAS) rate for the specified date, but based on the website they have promotion to Tokyo (Narita) from Kuala Lumpur as low as RM1,375 for travel period of 16 May 2011 – 30 Sep 2011. Under MAS’s Global Deals, Dreams Gateway which was launched yesterday, the one way fare for Osaka and Tokyo starts from

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In line with the growing demand, Firefly is said to have 12 ATR72-500s and seven Boeing 737 jets by end 2011.

The upgrading process includes facilities allowing customers to manage their bookings and perform web check-in’s while on the move, enable payment through direct debit, acceptance of selected foreign currency. The upgrading also involves code sharing with Malaysia Airlines which will enable check-through for passengers and their baggage for onward journeys.

The upgrading is expected to complete in 3 days from June 17-19. The customer may experience limited services online as the reservation and distribution system will be temporarily suspended. During this period, customers will be unable to make ticket purchases, additional products and services. For those looking for tickets they can still purchase tickets at Firefly’s Airport Ticketing Offices.

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Malaysia Airlines’ (MAS) announced their participation in the third largest global airline group, oneworld. The move marks a significant development for the carrier at a time when global carriers are hoping to extend their reach to tap the growth in Asia Pacific.

For records, the biggest global airline alliance is StarAlliance in which Singapore Airlines is a member. The other alliance is Skyteam.

With the latest move, MAS is hoping to gain access to the alliance’s global network which covers almost 950 destinations in 150 countries.

MAS will be the 15th member of oneworld. Other than British Airways and Qantas, the other members are Cathay Pacific, Royal Jordanian, American Airlines, Japan Airlines, Finnair, LAN Argentina, Malev Hungarian, Iberia, Mexicana, and S70 Airlines. India’s Kingfisher and AirBerlin will be members after their 18-month process period.

For MAS Enrich frequent flyer members will be able to earn and redeem rewards on oneworld’s carriers and vice versa.

The airline yesterday also signed an agreement via its travel and tour arm, MASHolidays, to become a member of Universal Air Travel Plan (UTAP) to provide travellers with another payment option for their ticketing with MAS. “UTAP is the card of choice for corporate travellers and MAS can now accelerate its corporate market share growth by using this leading payment system.

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