Sarawak Govt wants MAS to take over FAX flights immediately

MIRI: The Sarawak Government wants rural air services to be handed over to Malaysia Airlines (MAS) subsidiary MASWing immediately.

The state government feels that the Oct 1 date fixed by the Federal Cabinet for MASWing to take over from Fly Asian Xpress (FAX) was “too far away” and would cause more economic losses to the state and suffering for its rural population, said Sarawak Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh.

Wong, who is also State Second Finance Minister, said the state Cabinet had appealed to the Transport Ministry to fix an earlier date for the handover so that Sarawak’s tourism industry could be healed sooner and air-link woes for some 800,000 rural folk could be resolved.

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