Australia and Malaysia move toward open skies
Anthony Albanese, Australia’s Federal Transport Minister, Friday announced an increase on the seat cap between Australia and Malaysia.
Senior ministers from the Department of Transport in their respective countries have met and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) made effective immediately.
“Malaysian and Australian carriers will be able to operate an additional 5000 seats per week to our major gateway airports of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth from March 2008,� he said in a media statement.
The old existing agreement between the countries allows 15,000 seats per week to be flown into the four gateways from Malaysia for Malaysian Airlines, and 20,600 seats for Australian carriers.
The new agreement also covers an extra 3500 seats come March 2009.
“In addition, the new one-off arrangement provides unlimited access to and from airports other than the four major gateway airports,� he adds.
Minister Albanese also adds that this latest move will benefit carriers such as AirAsia X, which has recently begun operations to Australia.
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