Malindo Air starts direct flights to Colombo today

17 December 2015 06:30 pm

Malindo Air, a full-service carrier with main hubs at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2), will start direct flights to Colombo from today.

The daily services to Sri Lanka mark the airline’s ninth country respectively in its expanding international network. The narrow-body Boeing 737-800ER aircraft with a seat capacity of 162, with 12 Business Class and 150 Economy Class seats, will be deployed on the route.

The airline took to the skies in March 2013 with domestic flights and has since grown to operate routes to all major airports in Malaysia and across regional destinations in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Singapore with plans to operate to southern China and Australia by end-2015.

The fleet itself has grown leaps and bounds to 11 ATR72-600 and 16 Boeing 737NG as of September 16, 2015.

Today, the airline operates over 800 flights weekly across a continuously growing network of about 40 routes in the region. More recently, the airline won the Airline of the Year (Passenger) at KLIA Awards 2014.

Malindo Air also announced that all bookings are now open for its new services with attractive promotional all-inclusive return fairs for both Economy and Business Classes. Ticket also includes free baggage allowance, in-flight entertainment, meals and light refreshments.

Jetwing Air is the official general sales agent for the airline.