Pakistan and Malaysia agree to increase air links

[Abbas Ali]

ISLAMABAD, July 4: Pakistan and Malaysia on Wednesday agreed to increase air links from the existing three weekly frequencies to 14. This understanding was reached at the conclusion of the bilateral air service agreement talks.

According to the MoU signed between the two sides, Malaysia will operate 14 frequencies to Lahore and Karachi, while Pakistani carriers would have equal number of frequencies to Kuala Lumpur and another point in Malaysia.

It was also agreed that airlines of both the countries will be allowed to operate unlimited number of frequencies exclusively for cargo operation.

Source: DAWN

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According to the MoU signed between the two sides, Malaysia will operate 14 frequencies to Lahore and Karachi, while Pakistani carriers would have equal number of frequencies to Kuala Lumpur and another point in Malaysia.

It was also agreed that airlines of both the countries will be allowed to operate unlimited number of frequencies exclusively for cargo operation.

Source: DAWN

Does this mean private airlines are also allowed, or only PIA ?

[behramjee]

According to the MH KHI office, they have been lobbying for a long time to the Pak Govt and MH itself in KUL to get serious on launching LHE flights as they feel that will the new labor agreement signed between KUL and ISB Govt's which allow 150,000 labor workers from PAK to work in Malaysia, they can easily fill the flight from LHE with an A 333 as well as provide useful feeder traffic to Australia, LAX, SIN, Indonesia and AKL.

[javed]

Excellent decision. Now, the decision to drop SIN makes lot of sense. PIA can codeshare with MH to cover Australia/New Zealand and rest of far east.

Samilar decison is needed for Turkey in order to cover whole of Europe and perhaps Americas with daily connections.

Pakistani economy has suffered a lot in the past due to refusal to open our skies.

[Moin]

SIN is not that far from KUL. If PIA drops SIN, it can interline pax flying to SIN via KUL on MH.

[Kashif]

Isn´t SIN an important destination that warrants nonstop flights from Pakistan? or is everyone traveling on SQ to SIN?

[javed]

Ever since SG govt slapped visa on Pakistanis, SIN is not attractive any more. KUL, on the otherhand, has recently changed to visa upon arrival for Pakistanis.

[malpensa26]

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/ne ... ?id=271835

[javed]

3x hooked with KHI - will flop like SG ! West coast ppl will conitnue to prefer HKK/TPE/PEK based airlines with TG code share. May work for Oceana a bit.

[INSIDER]

Its just a MOU (memorandum of Understanding). Pakistan Govt is famous of signing of MOU instead of working on it. I hope they do something this time

[javed]

And here is reality:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 2007_pg7_5


Malaysians asked not to travel to Pakistan

BANGI: Malaysians have been advised to refrain from travelling to Pakistan in view of the recent wave of violence and bomb attacks in the southern part of the country.

“The situation in Pakistan is unstable. I think it is very dangerous for our people to go there unless there is a pressing need to go,” Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar was quoted as saying by The Star newspaper on Friday. “So, we should avoid going there so that we don’t get caught in the crossfire,” he said after opening and moderating a Merdeka forum organised by the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (Ikmas) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) here.

Syed Hamid was asked to comment on bomb blast incidents in Pakistan, including an incident where a vehicle carrying Chinese citizens was targeted by a suicide bomber in the south-western town of Hub outside Karachi, killing at least 30 Pakistanis on Thursday.

Asked about the situation of Malaysian students in Pakistan, Syed Hamid said he had received a report saying that they were all right and were not facing any problem. ppi

[malpensa26]

and more reality.... the governments left hand has know idea what the right hand is up to shall we say

Pakistan, Malaysia sign MoU on tourism cooperation
ISLAMABAD, July 23 (APP): Pakistan and Malaysia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in tourism sector between the two countries.The MoU was signed by Shahid Rafi, Secretary Tourism and Datuk Dr Victor Wec, Secretary General Ministry of Tourism of Malaysia at Kuala Lumpur, says a massage from Kuala Lumpur received here Monday.The MoU aims at promoting tourism through cooperation in training and publicity materials, holding of meetings, conventions, travel marts, trade fairs and investments in the field of tourism between the two countries.

The step has been taken in the backdrop of Pakistan-Malaysia Travel Mart held in Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, organized by Pakistan High Commission to bring together the tour operators of Pakistan and Malaysia for cross selling and networking of tourist flows between the two countries and beyond.

The Travel Mart was jointly inaugurated by Secretary Tourism Shahid Rafi, High Commissioner Lt Gen (retd) Tahir Mehmud Qazi and Director General of Tourism Board Malaysia Dato Mirza Muhammad Tayyab Beg.

The event was attended by senior officials of Malaysian Ministry of Tourism, Malaysian Tourism Board, Malaysian Association of Travel and Tour and Tour Agents, Malaysian Airlines and the Commonwealth Tourism Centre in Kuala Lumpur besides nearly a hundred leading tour and travel agents of Malaysian

[javed]

World is round! We are not the only one in this boat. LOL.

[malpensa26]

MAS said a new destination, Lahore/Pakistan, would be added effective Jan 7.

“We will operate three weekly flights (on Monday, Thursday and Saturday) from KL to this city. This destination will be linked to the KL-Karachi return route,” it said.

http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.as ... c=business

[sadiqhassan]

When they say linked, I sure hope they mean tagged on. I would hate to have to fly KHI-LHE-KUL, similar t what SQ/LH currently do. Does this also mean that the KUL-KHI-DXB vv flights will be no more? They didn't make much sense to be anyway