Malaysia set to boost seat allowance to Indian destinations

The Malaysian govt is looking to boost the number of seats available to airlines flying between Malaysia and India. Malaysian transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said the air services agreement between the two countries—some 20,000 seats per week—is being fully utilised, and it is time for a review. “As our airlines have fully utilised this [existing] seat allocation, we have commenced discussions with India to expand the current allocation by 20,000 seats a week,” Liow said. The minister said that, although Malaysian airlines offer some 24 destinations in India—with 6 of those being metro centres--he is keen to see more secondary cities. “We hope Malaysian airlines will be able to extend operations to destinations including Coimbatore, Madurai, Pune, Vijayawada, Mangalore, Chandigarh and Srinagar,” he added. <br/>