Malindo Air Expanding Network To Jeddah & Guangzhou

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 FEB 2017 – Malindo Air, CAPA 2016 Asia Pacific Regional Airline of the Year, announced today that all bookings are now open for its two new services from Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah, which will commence effective 21 February 2017, offering a seamless connectivity between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, and from Kuala Lumpur to Guangzhou, China, with the inaugural flight scheduled to commence on 15 March 2017.   

To celebrate the announcement of the new services, Malindo Air is offering special promotional all-in fares as follows:
• Kuala Lumpur – Jeddah: Business Class starts from RM3,999.00 and Economy Class starts from RM2,799 return all-in Booking period for this promotion is from 8 February 2017 onward for the travel period from 21 February 2017
• Kuala Lumpur – Guangzhou: Business Class starts from RM1,299.00 and Economy Class starts from RM299.00 one-way all-in Booking period for this promotion is from 8 February 2017 onward for the travel period from 15 March 2017

Fares are all-inclusive with perks such as free baggage allowance, in-flight entertainment and meals.

Malindo Air begins services to King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah from KLIA Main Terminal Building with two times a week flight starting from 21 February 2017 until 25 March 2017, and then increasing the frequency to daily flight from 26 March 2017 onwards.

From 21 February until 25 March 2017, Malindo Air flight OD267 will depart Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday and Saturday at 1.30am and arrive Ahmedabad, India at 4.30am. It will then depart Ahmedabad at 5.25am and arrive Jeddah at 8.15am. The return flight OD268 will depart Jeddah at 9.45am and arrive Ahmedabad at 5.35pm. After one hour transit, the flight will depart Ahmedabad at 6.35pm and arrive KLIA at 2.30am.

change in the flight timings. Flight OD267 will depart KLIA every day at 8.35am and arrive Ahmedabad, India at 11.35am. It will then depart Ahmedabad at 12.35pm and arrive Jeddah at 3.25pm. The return flight OD268 will depart Jeddah at 4.25pm and arrive Ahmedabad at 12.15 midnight. After one hour transit, the flight will depart Ahmedabad at 1.15am and arrive KLIA at 9.10am.

The narrow-body B737-900ER with a seat capacity of 180 (12 Business Class and 168 Economy Class seats) will be deployed on this new route to Jeddah. There will be a one hour transit stop for refuelling in Ahmedabad on both ways.

As for Malindo Air’s new route to Guangzhou, flight OD612 will depart Kuala Lumpur every day at 10.00pm and arrival at Guangzhou will be at 2.10am. The return flight OD613 will depart Guangzhou at 3.10am and arrival at Kuala Lumpur is at 7.30am. There is no time difference between Kuala Lumpur and Guangzhou and the flight time is 4 hours and 10 mins.

Chandran Rama Muthy, CEO of Malindo Air said, “We are very delighted to provide another travelling option at affordable prices for our Muslim guests from Malaysia and throughout the region, to Jeddah, which is the main gateway to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah for their holy pilgrimage of Hajj and Umrah. At the same time, Malindo Air will provide KLIA as a hub for Saudi tourists to visit Malaysia and the far-east.”

Chandran also said that with the recent extension of the simplified visa application process for short stays to Chinese nationals by Malaysia, more Chinese tourists are expected this year to Malaysia. “Chinese travellers constituted the largest source of tourists in 2015, whereas the first eight months of 2016 saw 1.7 million tourists from China visiting Malaysia. This latest travelling option that Malindo Air provides will hopefully spur even more visitors from China to Malaysia as their preferred destination.”

- www.malindoair.com