Latest Malaysia Airports Stories

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan honoured and recognized Malaysia's best at the 2013 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Excellence Awards banquet held on Thursday, 9 May 2013 from 7.30pm at the Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Now in its ninth consecutive year, the 2013 Malaysia Excellence Awards aims to recognize Malaysian companies for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation,...

MUMBAI, India, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After a successful Routes Asia in Mumbai which saw over 700 hundred delegates in attendance, more than ever before, GVK's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) have officially handed the event over to Kuching, Sarawak the host destination for Routes Asia 2014. Building on the success of this year's event the largest route development forum for the entire Asia region will take place on 9-11 March 2014 in Kuching,...

MANCHESTER, England, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It was announced today that in 2014 Routes Asia will return to Malaysia when the event takes place in Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, jointly hosted by Sarawak Tourism Board and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad. This will be the fifth time that a Routes event has taken place in Malaysia. In 2003 the first Routes Asia event, also the first ever Routes regional event, was held in Sepang hosted by...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless(TM) (www.ruckuswireless.com) today announced that KL International Airport (KLIA), one of the largest airport sites in the world, has standardized on Ruckus' popular ZoneFlex(TM) indoor/outdoor Smart Wi-Fi products and technology. The new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi system is initially being used to provide free high-speed hotspot services to the passengers that transit KLIA every year. KLIA recorded growth...

DULLES, Va., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoEye, Inc. (Nasdaq: GEOY), a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has delivered the first commercial high-resolution airport database of Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad's Technical Services Division (MAHB). This product meets the new International Civil Aviation Organization's Area-2 and Area-3 reporting requirements and uses...

By Yvonne Chong FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING AT Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), on the cards for some four years now, has been snagged by delays. However, MAHB managing director Datuk Seri Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid is optimistic the group's long overdue restructuring would be finalised by year-end. `We hope to get it all sorted out by the end of the year. But last year, we had also thought we would have resolved the issue by the end of the year. Well ... fingers crossed,' he tells...

Malaysia to host World Route Development Forum KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The 14th World Route Development Forum would be held here on Oct. 12-14 and bring together representatives of world airlines and airports companies to discuss and plan air services. It is the first time for the Forum, which traditionally takes place in Europe, to be held in an Asian city, said Malaysia Airports Sdn Bhd, the organizer of the event which is also called Routes KL 2008. Some 2,500 delegates...

By Hamisah Hamid BOSTON: The Penang International Airport will be the second airport after the KL International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang to be recognised as a "green" airport, says Malaysia Airports Holdings (MAHB) managing director Datuk Seri Bashir Ahmad. The airport operator is currently taking steps to make all airports under its management environmentally-friendly. "We will start with the international airports. It is going to be slightly harder (with the other domestic airports) as...

By Hamisah Hamid BOSTON: Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) said it does not expect to see any major impact on its business as international carriers go ahead with plans to trim their flight schedules come November due to the high fuel costs and a general slowdown in the economy. Managing director Datuk Seri Bashir Ahmad said the airport operator is expecting airlines to cut flight capacity in their schedules for November. "There may be small changes here and there in the schedules, but...

By Zoe Phoon AIRPORT operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) is expected to invite local and foreign developers and investors this month to submit requests to be involved in the development of 2,700 acres around the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang. Under MAHB's goal of expanding its revenue streams to include non- aeronautical activities, it has come up with a masterplan to turn what is currently oil palm plantation into the KLIA Aeropolis - an airport city...