Malaysia and India have signed a new aviation deal during the India visit of Malaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak, which allows a total of 22,531 passengers to fly to India per week, up by 1,861 passengers.
Malaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi (Source: PTI Photo)
Kuala Lumpur (VNA) – Malaysia and India have signeda new aviation deal during the India visit of Malaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak,which allows a total of 22,531passengers to fly to India per week, up by 1,861 passengers.
The agreement,whose negotiations started in 2010, isconsidered a breakthrough dealsince the first one between the two countries wassigned in 1967.
Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk SeriLiowTiong Lai said the extra seats were approved for the six majorcities ofChennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru (Bangalore) and Hyderabad.
He said the designated airlines from Malaysia willalso be allowed to enter a domestic code-sharing arrangement with India’sairlines, which is expected to help expanding the country’s tourism.
The minister said the next move for Malaysia isto raise the number of weekly seats to the six Indian cities to 40,436 as wellas add eight destinations to the existing 18.
However, he revealed that negotiations foradditional air traffic rights with India are facing difficulties, adding thatMalaysia is prepared to be liberal with India in line with ASEAN’s Open Skiespolicy.
Under India’s National Civil Aviation Policy2016, for countries fully or partly within a 5,000km radius from New Delhi,extra air traffic rights could only be considered if India’s airlines were ableto use up at least 80 percent of their entitlement. But the present rate ofutilisation by India’s airlines to Malaysia is only about 5 percent.
Currently,Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia and Malindo are allowed to provide services forpassengers travelling from Malaysia to India.
The six-dayIndia visit of Prime Minister NajibRazakstarted from March 30 as the two countries are celebrating their 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties. This is the third visit of the PM to Indiasince he took office in 2009.-VNA
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Malaysian Prime Minister NajibRazak and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi (Source: PTI Photo) 
