MALAYSIA Airlines will be reinstating its international flights in April and May to fly home those affected by the travel restrictions around the world, the national carrier said today.

Airline group chief executive officer Captain Izham Ismail said many customers – Malaysians and foreigners, have reached out to its offices requesting for flights, mostly between Kuala Lumpur and Australia and New Zealand as well as London.

“Being a network carrier, Malaysia Airlines is able to maintain connectivity and bring our customers direct or closest to their intended destination,” he said in a statement.

“And being Malaysia’s national carrier, it is our duty to ensure accessibility for Malaysians domestically and internationally during these difficult times.”

Passengers looking for flights to return home can book their tickets on Malaysia Airlines’ official website at https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en.html or via the Malaysia Airlines app with some departure dates available for booking today onwards.

Malaysia Airlines has reduced its domestic frequencies and schedules since the movement control order was enforced, running at minimum capacity mostly to facilitate essential travel and cargo movement.

Additionally, Malaysia Airlines and its sister airlines under the Malaysia Aviation Group, as well as MABkargo, is working to transport medical devices and supplies.

“We support Malaysia’s Ministry of Health with dedicated belly space across our domestic and international network and on MABkargo’s global freighter network for the transport of medical devices and supplies.

“Recently we transported two tonnes of face masks and personal protection equipment from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu as well as 300,000 pieces of disposable masks, 50,000 pieces of protection suit and 8,000 pieces of protection suit with eye masks, courtesy of the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation from Shanghai to Kuala Lumpur.”

MABKargo will also be flying in more than 10 million pieces of masks and ventilators from Shanghai and Guangzhou, and it was made possible by the National Disaster Management Agency, Transport Ministry and Pharmaniaga Berhad.

On the domestic front, Malaysia Airlines, Firefly and MASWings will facilitate the transportation of goods and medical staff across Peninsular Malaysia, across to East Malaysia and within Sabah and Sarawak.

“The three airlines have also positioned standby aircraft at Subang Airport, KLIA and KKIA to initiate rapid mobilisation of medical staff and professionals as well as other (non-Covid-19) patients to support the Health Ministry’s capacity/resource management efforts across Malaysia.” – March 30, 2020.