Two airlines to suspend Macau flights
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Bangkok Airways and Malaysia Airlines have either suspended or planned to suspend their daily Macau-bound flight services, the Macao Daily Post reported on Monday, quoting official information from the two airlines.
Xinhua news agency quoted the paper as saying that Bangkok Airways’ daily services between Macau and Bangkok would stop operating starting from 28 March this year.
Officials were quoted telling the daily that they suspended the Macau route because “we don’t have so many clients now that the economy is not doing well”, and the number of passengers travelling between Macau and Bangkok had decreased significantly.
According to the report, the Thai airline planned to resume its Macau service between October and December this year.
Meanwhile, an official from the Malaysia Airlines office in Hong Kong was quoted telling the daily that it would suspend the Macau-Kuala Lumpur route by the end of March.
MAS opened its direct route to Macau in November 1995, but suspended it in March 1998 due to low demand and unpredictability during the then Asian financial crisis. The airline resumed the service in November 2007.
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