AirAsia launches 27,000 fixed one-way fare tickets to East Malaysia for CNY

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Low-cost carrier AirAsia launches 27,000 fixed one-way fare tickets from Peninsular to Sabah, Sarawak for the Chinese New Year celebrations.   AirAsia's Chinese New Year fixed ticket fare is set at RM328 for Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, and RM388 for Sabah.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5y9puer2  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00I would like to express my gratitude to PHA Asia, for once again carrying out a unique initiative by themselves,

00:21which is a permanent mining site for additional mining during the Chinese New Year season.

00:30And for your information, this initiative is not only for the Chinese New Year, but will also be continued during the Industry Day,

00:38which we will launch soon, maybe next month.

00:43This is an initiative that has been carried out several times before this,

00:49and this time it will be continued.

00:51For mining between Senanjung and Sarawak, it will be set at RM328.

00:58And for Sabah, it will be RM388, including tax and donation.

01:05This is for mining to Sabah, because Sabah is further away.

01:11This is one of the initiatives that I think is very good,

01:15because this is an additional mining.

01:19And we know that during the holiday season, especially the Chinese New Year and Industry Day,

01:25the demand for mining is very high.

01:29So this is a good development and effort,

01:34which of course on behalf of the Ministry of Transport, we give full support.

01:42Maybe there is a figure of how many residents, how many people will benefit from this initiative?

01:51For this initiative from A-Asia, these fixed fares, they will have 27,000 seats.

01:58So 27,000 seats, if everyone fill up, if all the flights are filled up, 27,000 people will benefit.

02:05So on top of that, we will have our maximum fare.

02:10We are doing everything possible to reduce the flight tickets during the holiday season.

02:17But we cannot afford to do this year-round, because it is very, very costly for us to subsidise flight tickets.

02:26So I hope that Malaysians will understand, especially friends from Sabah and Sarawak,

02:32we know that sometimes flight tickets will shoot up,

02:37because as I said, the flight tickets are based on dynamic pricing.

02:41In a flight, if you are the early birds, definitely you will get cheaper rates.

02:47But if you are the last-minute passengers, definitely you will pay more,

02:51because they are based on the dynamic pricing.

02:54The more demand, the price of the tickets will go up.

02:58So that is the working mechanism of how airlines fix their fares.

03:05So across all airlines around the world, it is the same.

03:08But in Malaysia, we are doing this extra.

03:11As far as the government is concerned, we are putting a government intervention on this

03:17to put a cap price during the holiday season.

03:22But we can only manage to do this a few days in a year, because only during major festivals.

03:30And we know that the demand will go up, and we do this with a cost that the government is prepared to help.

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