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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Rumour of MAS halting flights to Frankfurt intensify

Tourism Malaysia is concerned over a rumour that MAS’s service to Frankfurt will be discontinued.
b777-mas copyFRANKFURT: The Tourism Malaysia office here is deeply concerned over a rumour that Malaysia Airlines (MAS) might discontinue its five-weekly flights to Frankfurt.
Although the rumour started circulating several years ago, it has gained intensity since the two mishaps hit the airline – the disappearance of MH370 en route to Beijing on March 8 and the downing of MH17 while flying over Ukraine on July 17.
Tourism Malaysia Frankfurt director Maizan Ahmad said discontinuing direct non-stop Frankfurt-Kuala Lumpur flights would be a major setback to the Visit Malaysia Year 2014 which has been successful following the double-digit growth in tourist arrivals from Germany to Malaysia since 2010.
“Frankfurt has traditionally enjoyed a good load factor. An average German tourist spends about 10 nights in Malaysia, spending less than RM3,000 per trip per person,” he told Bernama.
The number of tourist arrivals from Germany rose by 16.6 per cent to 70,456 from the corresponding period last year with Langkawi beaches and Sarawak rainforests being top destinations.
Germany flag carrier, Lufthansa, like MAS, also operates five-weekly flights to Malaysia, but other airlines that provide connectivity to Malaysia must first fly to their home base before flying to Malaysia.
They include Cathay Pacific, Asiana, Singapore Airlines and Thai Air.
Maizan said MAS is a boon for German travellers heading to Malaysia like Thai Air, which flies twice weekly from Frankfurt and once a week from Dusseldorf to Bangkok, to cater to increasing numbers of German travellers visiting Thailand.
On tourism promotion, Maizan said apart from banking on social media, Tourism Malaysia Frankfurt has sent 50 representatives from German tour and travel agents and 29 Cologne Business School students majoring in tourism management to visit Malaysia.
Tourism Malaysia will appear in a talk show on the Antenna Mainz Radio on Sept 21 besides holding a series of roadshows to promote Malaysia in partnership with MAS in Frankfurt, Hanover and Berlin in November.
Other events in the pipeline are “Travel Days Malaysia” jointly with Ikarus Travel near Tubbingen, “Malaysia at the Shopping Mall” in Hamburg, and sponsoring the Meier’s Far East Life Seminar.
In March, MAS Frankfurt office director David Raj denied rumours that MAS would discontinue its five-weekly flights to Frankfurt. - BERNAMA

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