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ATIONAL carrier Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAS) wants . the same passenger service charge (PSC) at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) as it. will lead to. a level playing field for all rurlines.MAS-chief executive officer Peter Bellew told Business Times such a rate structure would allow it to com~
pete in terms of airfares and could also . allow the carrier to lower its fares further.
The Transport Ministry an- nounced yesterday that a new PSC +structure would be implemented at
airports from January 1.
"It's very good news for all airlines at KLIA. I am very pleased and all our staff_ are pleased because we need to be able to fight on an equal · basis. This is a good start to doing that," he said.
Transport Minister Datuk Seri Li- owTiorigLai said the Malaysian Avi- ation Commission would announce the new rates soon.
Bellew said MAS could possibly be
The current passenger service charge at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport is RM65 for international destinations and RM9for domestic travel.
informed of the new rates as early as today.
It is believed that the new PSC will · be RMll for domestic flights and RM73 for international flights at all airports nationwide.
The current charges at KLIA are RM65 for international destinations and RM9 for domestic travel, while at klia2, the charges for international and domestic destinations are RM32 and RM6, respectively. The new PSC structure will also introduce a charge on inter-Asean flights, which is belieyed to be RM35.
Bellew said MAS planned to have a
celebration sale on its routes as well flights from klia2,"- said Bellew, as speCial offers once the new rates adding that he hoped the rate would
were announced. ·be equalised.
Besides MAS, 51 other airlines, the He also said it was possible that International Air Transport Associ- the higher charge for international ation and the Association of Asia. . . flights might be for just one year so Pacific Airlines have also called for as to help low-cost carriers AirAsia the same PSC at KLIA and klia2. Bhd and AirAsia X Bhd.
On MAS's possible operations at On the possible new rate for inter- klia2, Bellew said the decision would Asean flights, Bellew said: "This is depend on the final announcement going to make no difference what~
of the PSC. soever and it (inter-Asean rate) does
"If it looks like It's indefinitely go- favour AirAsia completely .. That in ing to be a RM40 difference (be- itself is not fair but in terms of the tween KLIAand·klia2), then we may previous situation, it _is a better sit- well operate some new international uation for MAS."
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billion was oversubscribed more than three times with highly com- petitive rates.
The statutory- body received RM13.39 billion of orders from 68 investors.
The strong demand demonstrated its credential as a new sukuk issuer in the market. with a strong credit standing, said LPPSA in a statement yesterday.
The sukuk formed part ofLPPSA's RM25 billion Islamic commercial papers/Islamic mediUili-term notes programme and is guaranteed by the governinent.
The sukuk was issued to finance the provision of housing loans to the
· civil serVants, said LPPSA.
"We believe that l.mderlying the investors' support is the market con- fidence on LPPSA's financial . strength and solid credit standing as a sustainable self-fin~ncing body under the Finance Ministry entrust- ed with the provision of housing loans to the civil servants;' said LPP- SA chairman Tan Sri Dr Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah in the statement. · · The sukuk, issued in tranches of three i:o 30 years, was priced at 3.5 to · 4.9 per cent ·per annum.
Affin Hwang Investment Bank Bhd, Amlnvestment Bank Bhd, Bailk Islam Malaysia Bhd, CIMB In- vestment Bank Bhd, Maybank In- vestment Bank Bhd, OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd and REB-Investment
• Bank Bhd were the joint lead man- agers and joint book runners for the book-building exercise. ,
RM30.8b investments for manufacturing, services
RUPA DAMODARAN KUALA LUMPUR: Investments worth RM30.8 billion are in the pipeline for the manufacturing and services sec- tors, said International Trade and Industry· Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed.
These 264 projects are mainly in chemical and chemical products, mltchinery and metal, transporta- tion technology, global establish- ments and hospitality.
The projects will potentially pro- vide more than 20,000 jobs for
Malaysians. ·
"We expect to process these in- vestment proposals by the end of this year," he said in a statement on the investments approved in the flrst half of the year.
Approved foreign direct invest- ments (FDis) totalled RM28.2 billion in the first half, which was nearly four-fifths of the total FDis approved for the whole oflast year.
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Mustapa said foreign investments amounted to RM12.5 billion, or 63.8 per cent, of the total approved in- vestments in the ·manufacturing sector for the period.
The United Kingdom led the pack with RM2.07 billion, followed· by China (RM1.58 billion), South Korea (RM1.52 billion}, Singapore (RM1.46 billion) and Japan (RM910 million).
These approved manufacturing projects will create 32,310 jobs, of which 7,130, or 22.1 per cent, are in the- managerial, technical and su- pervisory categories while 20,240; or 62.4 per cent, are in the skilled craft
category. ··
Approved investments according to catalytic and high-potential growth sub-sectors for the first half of2016
JndiJstry Numberof Amount ro ·acn (R/VIb) Electrical & electronics
Medical devices
Chemical & chemical products Machinery & equipment Aerospace
40 24 42 35 2
5.85 1.68 1.674 0.66 0.16
Totctl 143 10.02
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ment Authonty (Mida) srud RM88.4 : ... _ ... : billion worth of investments in· the
services, manufactur~ng and prima- ry sectors were approved during the flrst six months of the year.
This compared with RM125.9 bil- lion in the same period last year, which was mostly due to the two big
petrochemical projects, namely Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex in Johor and LNG Train 9 inSarawak.
The services sector contributed the ·largest number of projects a~
2,106 during the period.
They will create more than 44,000 job opportunities in the distributive· trade, MSC Malaysia status compa- nies, hotel and tourism, education and global. services establishments.
Within the services sector, the real estate sub-sector continued to be the leading contributor with invest- ments ofRM29.3 billion, followed by the financial services . (RM9.7. bil- lion), global services establi,shments (RM7.3 billion), distributive trade (RM5.4 billion) and MSC Malaysia Status (RM4.5 billion).
Investments in distributive trade will provide 21,000 job opportuni- ties and create thousands of spin-off benefits for local businesses.
United Arab Emirates-based Lulu Group and Japan-based Aeon Co have indicated nine planned outlets and two new malls, respec-.
lively.
Mida said the top five investment reCipients were Johor, Selangor, Penang, Perak and Sarawak.
They accounted for 77 per cent of the total approved investments in the manufacturing sector, con- tributing more than 22,700 job op- portunities.
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