Malaysia Airlines operates three flights to and from Dhaka daily

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By A Correspondent :
A period of twenty years has elapsed since Malaysia Airlines started operating air services between Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur in 1995 with a small number of flight frequencies. With the passage of time its flight frequencies to and from Dhaka have increased to as many as 21 flights a week or three flights daily achieving a load factor of as high as eighty per cent.
“We have as many as 80 aircraft in our fleet. Excepting the USA and Africa we operate air services to as many as 106 destinations all over the world. Even we have code-share arrangement to connect destinations in the USA and Africa,” said an official of Malaysia Airlines’ GSA Union Group in Dhaka while talking to this correspondent in the afternoon on August 25 (Tuesday).
For operating air services to its destinations all around the world Malaysia Airlines had a workforce of around 20,000 employees with its aircraft-employee ratio being as high as 1:250 which was absolutely unprofitable considering its high overhead costs. “But after retrenchment of redundant staff of around eight thousand Malaysia Airlines has a 12,000-strong workforce to operate a fleet of 80 aircraft bringing down the aircraft-employee ratio to a profitable 1:150 rato with low overhead costs,” the GSA official said.
Asked when the airline was launched originally the official said, “It was launched in 1947. The airline launched 50th anniversary of its launching in 2007 last. In that consideration Malaysia Airlines is now 68 years old.”
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