07 March 2009
LANGKAWI,-- The Tourism Ministry is working with the Transport Ministry, Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad (MAHB) and airline operators to have more flights to this resort island, which is seeing a tourism boom.
Its deputy minister, Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Taib said there were not enough flights while the existing flights to the island were always full.
"We (ministry) held talks on this problem with the Transport Ministry, MAHB, the heads of the various state tourism committees, Malaysian Airlines, AirAsia and Firefly two weeks ago," he told reporters after closing a squid fishing competition here today.
He added that the problem needed to be resolved in order to meet the ministry's tourism goals.
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