Call For More Chartered Flights To Langkawi

LANGKAWI (Malaysia), Jan 4 (Bernama) -- The Langkawi International Airport management wants the authorities to allow more chartered flights to the legendary resort island to increase foreign tourist arrivals. Its manager, Abdul Halim Othman, said they were collaborating with the Langkawi Development Authority (Lada) to rope in more airline companies to initiate direct flights or chartered flights to Langkawi. Among the companies currently providing chartered flights to the island are Finnair of Finland and Scat Air of Kazakhstan, he told Bernama here today. Apart from that, there are 21 scheduled flights provided by Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Firefly and Berjaya Air, and Silk Air from Singapore, he said. On the number of arrivals, he said there were 1.42 million last year compared to 1.3 million in 2010. -- BERNAMA