MALAYSIA - warms to foreign airlines

Financialexpress.com, DECEMBER 27 2007

Malaysia is keen to let low cost carriers, including Singapore's Tiger Airways, fly in to help kick off its biggest-ever tourism drive next year, a minister said on Wednesday.
Malaysia's cabinet is currently debating opening the skies to Tiger Airways and if approved, the airline's entry will end the stranglehold the national carries have over the lucrative Malaysia-Singapore air routes and signals a warming of often testy bilateral ties.

"We would like Tiger Airways to come in as fast as possible to some destinations, especially East Malaysia and the east coast of peninsular Malaysia," Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said in an interview.
"We are also pushing for more low-cost carriers to fly to Malaysia. We are trying to persuade some of the Indian airlines, Air Sahara and Kingfisher," said the 56-year-old businessman-turned-politician.

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