Kahini Chakraborty – Mumbai
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Azahar Hamid
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Malaysia Airlines is exploring new sectors in the India market as part of its expansion plans. With an aim to strengthen its position in the market, the airline has been expanding capacity over the past few months. Azahar Hamid, regional senior vice president – South Asia and Middle East, Malaysia Airlines told Express TravelWorld, “With the introduction of services to Kochi in September 2013, we are connected to six cities in India. We have also increased operations from Delhi and Bengaluru by adding two additional weekly flights to Kuala Lumpur in the month of October 2013.” However, he refrained from commenting on the news of the airline considering equity investment in the India market.
Presently, the airline operates to six cities in India – Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kochi with 66 flights. “Our intent is to further strengthen the India network by getting double daily flights to our six online points and will continue to explore more new points in future. The year 2013 has been an encouraging for us from the India market. We have registered over 16 per cent growth in revenue over previous year. Our seat load factor has been over 86 per cent ex India, a year-on-year growth of 12 per cent. We look forward to increase our reach and base in the India market,” he added.
