MALAYSIA PREPARES TO BUILD NEW LOW COST AIRLINE AIRPORT
June 1st, 2010
BY MARK GODFREY
MALAYSIA'S emergence as an airport centre for Asia's low fare airlines has hit turbulence in a squabble between the country's aviation authority and the region's fastest growing airline, Kuala Lumpur-based Air Asia. At issue - the expansion of airport capacity for low fare airlines. Air Asia had its own plans for an airport at Labu, 8 km from to the main Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
But these proposals were rejected by the Malaysian government and now the country's main airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) is ...
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