KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Langkawi International Airport (LIA) have been named among the world’s best airports in their respective classes for 2021 in a world Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey by Airports Council International (ACI).
KLIA and LIA achieved an ideal rating of 5.00 in the airport classes serving over 40 million passengers each year (mppa) and two to 5 mppa respectively, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd
(MAHB) mentioned in a press release.
ASQ benchmarks the world’s best airports in phrases of general passenger satisfaction for terminal security, services, providers, and cleanliness.
This current trade accolade by a world physique will give added impetus to MAHB to proceed sustaining excessive service requirements, particularly in view of the anticipated improve in passenger actions after Malaysian borders reopen on April 1, 2022.
The group recorded a complete of 4.66 million passenger actions in February 2022, out of which 2.54 million passenger actions or 55 per cent have been contributed by its native community of airports and a couple of.12 million or 45 per cent have been from its Turkish asset, Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (ISG).
For Malaysia, home passenger site visitors actions stood at 2.27 million and worldwide at 0.28 million whereas ISG registered 1.09 million home and 1.03 million worldwide.
As for cargo operations, the group recorded a 17.4 per cent improve in whole tonnage final month which was about 86,768 metric tonnes for each cargo operations in Malaysia in addition to Turkey, when in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
Malaysia’s personal Kargo Xpress has began a brand new Kuala Lumpur – Hong Kong route.
Kargo Xpress first began out in KLIA final June and operated two native cargo flights to Kuching and Kota Kinabalu respectively.
It now affords each day flights to Hong Kong on account of progress in demand for air cargo pushed by e-commerce, postal providers, transshipment, and industries requiring high-value logistics providers.
In a separate Bursa Malaysia submitting, MAHB mentioned site visitors will seemingly recuperate steadily over the subsequent few months as extra international locations reopen borders in line with increased vaccination charges in the area, gaining additional traction from the second half of 2022.
The closure of Ukraine and Russia’s air house following their present battle has briefly disrupted flights between Istanbul’s ISG, Ukraine and Russia (Moscow and St Petersburg).
As for Asia Pacific, the air house closure has propelled airways to reroute flights to Europe, including flight time and rising gas consumption and value.
The group is monitoring the developments in Ukraine together with the rising jet gas costs, and would proceed assessing the affect to the group’s worldwide site visitors. – Bernama
