Sarawak potential in air tours

MIRI: The Sarawak government has called on aviation companies operating in the state to venture into aerial tourism.

Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu anak Numpang said there were groups of rich tourists who could afford to rent helicopters for swift aerial tourism.

“There are rich business people who come to Sarawak often for business. They want to see Sarawak, but don’t have much time to travel extensively by land. They will certainly love to fly in a helicopter and take a whirlwind tour.

“They have the money and all they need is the service. Aviation companies should come up with packages for these very rich businessmen-tourists,’’ he said recently.

Jabu was here to launch two helicopters purchased by Layang-Layang Aerospace, an aviation company contracted by the Health Ministry to handle the flying doctor service.

The company purchased the two twin-engine BO-105 Bolkow designed and manufactured in Germany.

During a briefing, Jabu was told that the company spent RM5mil on each helicopter, including RM2mil to fit each of them with the equipment to treat patients at remote settlements and fly them to urban centres in emergency cases.

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