KL airline to remain full-service airline

KL airline to remain full-service airline

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's national airline will continue to focus on being a full-service airline and won't consider operating a low-cost carrier, the airline's chairman said.

Even if Malaysia Airlines acquired a stake in a budget airline, it would allow the low-cost carrier to "run the show by itself," the national news agency Bernama quoted the airline's chairman, Munir Majid, as saying late on Friday.

The report, however, didn't identify any potential targets that Malaysia Airlines might invest in.

Munir comments come amid increasing competition between full- service, or premium, airlines and budget carriers in the region. -- AP