Seems like MAS was supposed to introduce the extra flights to India in the winter 2003/2004 schedules, but looks like they are not going to introduce new flights to India until the dispute is settled.
By the way, I thought Indian Airlines was granted traffic rights to Langkawi? The Malaysian government is refusing Indian carriers additional rights into Malaysia? This is new. I thought the Malaysian governement always wanted foreign carriers to increase their frequency into Malaysia?
Rupertvander82 From France, joined Dec 2002, 411 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (9 years 1 month 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 816 times:
You never know what the Malaysian government wants. They change their mind every other minute. One good example is the price of water sold to Singapore, and more recently, the ban of HK and Taipei tourists, only to revoke their decision a few days later.
Even without the dispute, do you think MAS will keep their rights on hold due to the SARS scare in Asia?
Hkg82 From Hong Kong, joined Apr 2002, 1211 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (9 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 800 times:
What a silly little spat between the two governments. God knows how long it’s going to go on for & what it will lead to, knowing the heightened national sensitivity of both countries…..
Airbus Lover From Malaysia, joined Apr 2000, 3248 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (9 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 783 times:
We better be careful, India has nukes
But seriously, they should call the dispute off. It is only some misunderstanding and Malaysia has already apologized.
But if it is true that Malaysia is not granting others rights while wanting others to grant rights to their national airline, then it is sheer stupidity.
B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (9 years 1 month 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 779 times:
MAS was widely rumored to have paid off officials a few years ago when they suddenly received expanded rights to serve India with very little granted to Indian carriers in return. There was a major investigation conducted into the dealings that fizzled out when Shahnawaz Hussein took over the civil aviation ministry.
OdiE From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 1641 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (9 years 1 month 3 days ago) and read 717 times:
When MAS obtained the additional rights a few years ago, one of the condition was to allow (allow is probably the wrong word and I am too tired to think today) Air India to code-share with MAS on all of MAS' new flights into Kuala Lumpur. In addition to that, Air India get to code-share with MAS on the latter's flight to Los Angeles and fifth freedom rights had been granted (solely for KUL-LAX v.v.) too. This agreement was rather unique, since Air India do not physically operates from KUL to LAX, but they were able to sell seats between KUL and LAX using its own code. Now that Air India operates SIN-KUL-SIN, I am curious whether Air India can sell tickets to Singaporeans from SIN to LAX via KUL. However, Air India is not the first carrier to receive such rights (fifth freedom through code-share). Virgin Atlantic too have fifth freedom rights between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney (code-share with MAS).
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