Thursday, November 23, 2006

MAS airfares from KK to Kuching, Miri may drop soon

KUALA LUMPUR: The Transport Ministry yesterday hinted that Malaysia Airlines (MAS) would be lowering its recently-increased airfares for three sectors in East Malaysia from Dec 1.

Its Deputy Minister Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas said the affected sectors were Kota Kinabalu-Labuan, Kota Kinabalu-Miri and Kuching-Bintulu.

“The ministry admits that the airfares increase for these sectors were high but not at 300 per cent as claimed by the representative from Kinabatangan,” he said when winding-up debate on the Supply Bill 2007 at the committee stage for his ministry at the Dewan Rakyat here yesterday.

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