KOREAN AIR TO RESUME CHARTERED FLIGHTS TO LANGKAWI NEXT YEAR

LANGKAWI (Malaysia), June 14 (Bernama) -- South Korea's national carrier,
Korean Air, is expected to resume chartered flight services to Langkawi next
year in order to bring in more Korean tourists here.

Langkawi Development Authority (LADA) assistant senior manager 1, Hanafi
Ahmad said, the assurance was given by officers from the airline company in
Seoul recently.

He added that the airline had in 2007 serviced the route, catering for
chartered flights, but suspended the service following the global economic
crisis in 2007.

Hanafi said direct chartered flights from Seoul-Langkawi would become more
frequent during summer months, namely July and August.

"We have the facilities and capability to handle big carriers since Langkawi
has an international airport," he said here Monday.

Hanafi added that he and LADA tourism officer Nor Azman Yusof and Tourism
Malaysia officials were in Seoul as part of a promotional tour and to
participate in the Korean Travel Fair (KOTFA) .

According to LADA's statistics unit, about 8,000 South Korean tourists
visited Langkawi, a duty-free island, last year.

Langkawi, is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off
the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia.

The islands are a part of the state of Kedah, which is adjacent to the Thai
border. The largest of the islands is Pulau Langkawi (Langkawi Island).
-- BERNAMA


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