PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is the biggest winner of the recently revised passenger service charges (PSC) as the airline’s Asean fares could become more competitive effective Jan 1, 2017. “From Jan 1, 2017, MAS’ Asean offerings will become cheaper and, by Jan 1, 2018, MAS will have fully closed the competitive gap with the low cost carrier at KLIA2. “It was almost as if Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom) had formulated policy with a focus on helping the national carrier. Nevertheless, despite the negative projections, AirAsia X closed higher 1.5 sen or 3.57% to 43.5 sen and AirAsia also ended higher by seven sen or 2.53% to RM2.84. Meanwhile, intra-Asean travel will attract a new PSC of RM35 per pax for all airports, up from RM32 at KLIA2, but down from RM65 at KLIA.

Source: The Star November 02, 2016 00:21 UTC