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FT: British Airways tinggalkan KLIA By Kapal Berita 14/10/2000 12:04 am Sat |
Sumber: FINANCIAL TIMES Terjemahan Ringkas: British Airways akan menghentikan semua penerbangan dari London
ke Luala Lumpur tahun depan. Ini adalah satu pukulan kepada
cinta-cita Malaysia untuk menjadi pusat penerbangan
serantau. Hubungan bersejarah sejak 50 tahun yang lalu itu terpaksa ditamatkan
kerana ia kurang menguntungkan, menurut Ken Ryan, GM bagii Qantas dan British Airways. "Kami tidak sanggup rugi lagi", ulas beliau.
Malaysia membelanjakan RM 9 billion untuk membuka lapangan terbang KLIA
yang seluas 10,000 hektar pada 1998 itu. Ia bertujuan untuk bersaing dengan
Singapura dan Bangkok. Lapangan terbang Changi singapura nampaknya semakin maju. Ia kini sedang
membina satu terminal ketiga untuk menampung Airbus siri A3XX yang boleh membawa 500 penumpang. Singapura telah memesan 25 biji kapalterbang AirBus
model A3XX tersebut pada harga $US8.6 billion. Ia akan tiba
pada tahun 2006, serentak dengan siapnya terminal baru yang
berharga $S1.5 billion itu siap. Lapangan terbang Singapura terkenal kerana kecekapannya dan hampirnya ia
dengan pusat bandar. KLIA tidak popular kerana ia terletak 70km dari ibunegara,
kira-kira sejam perjalanan. Namun demikian, kedudukkan bandara baru Putrajaya agak hampir dengan KLIA
dan KLIA mungkin bersinar kembali bilka bndar baru itu siap sepenuhnya
http://news.ft.com/ FT: BA blow to Malaysia air hopes
By Sheila McNulty in Singapore British Airways is stopping all flights from London to
Kuala Lumpur next year in a blow to Malaysia's
ambition of becoming a regional air hub.
The route dates back 50 years to when Malaysia was a
British colony, but the airline says it must sever that
historic link. "It has been unprofitable for some time," Ken Ryan,
south-east Asia regional general manager for Qantas
and British Airways, told the Financial Times. "We didn't think that was going to
change any time soon. We're not able to bear those losses any longer," he
said. BA will reduce its six flights a week from London to Kuala Lumpur to five at the
end of October and end the service next March.
Malaysia spent M$9bn (US$2.4bn) to open its new 10,000 hectare,
high-technology, international airport in 1998 in the hope that it would replace
the well-established airports n Singapore and Bangkok as a regional hub.
Business is so robust in neighbouring Singapore's Changi International Airport
that it has just started work on a third airport terminal. It will be designed around
the Airbus A3XX capable of carrying more than 500 passengers, and will more
than double Changi's capacity to 64m passengers a year.
Singapore Airlines, the island-state's national carrier, has put in an US$8.6bn
order for 25 of the A3XX, with the first delivery scheduled for 2006 - the same
year in which the S$1.5bn (US$858m) third terminal is to be completed.
Singapore's airport is known for its efficiency and proximity to the central
business district. At 70km from the capital, Malaysia's new airport is unpopular with many
travellers because it is an hour's drive, without traffic, from the capital.
The authorities note, however, it runs close to the new administrative capital
being created and should become more convenient with time.
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