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Travelling to Malaysia
By Air :
Malaysia Airlines, the national carrier, currently
flies to 95 destinations worldwide. Many other
international airlines offer flights to Malaysia,
most of which land at the Subang Kuala Lumpur
International Airport, located a few kilometers
to the west of Kuala Lumpur. As air traffic to
and from Malaysia is estimated to grow between
almost seven per cent a year over the next decade,
a new airport is being constructed at Sepang,
Selangor. The new KL International Airport at
Sepang will have one of the most sophisticated
passenger facilities in the region when completed
for operation in early 1998.
Some of the international airlines that fly to
Malaysia are Aeroflot, Air France, Air India,
Air Lanka, Air Mauritius, Air New Zealand, Air
Vietnam, Alia/Royal Jordanian Airlines, Balkan-Bulgarian
Airlines, Bangladesh Biman, Cathay Pacific Airways,
China Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Eva Air,
Garuda Indonesia, Iran Air, Japan Airlines, Kampuchea
Airlines, Koran Airlines, Lufthansa, Pakistan
Airlines, Phillipine Airlines, Qantas Airways,
Royal Brunei Airlines, Royal Dutch Airlines, Saudi
Arabian Airlines, Sempati Airlines, Singapore
Airlines, Thai International, and Uzbekistan Airlines.
By Rail :
Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTM), or Malayan
Railways, connects to both Singapore and Bangkok.
The trip from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur takes
7 to 10 hours; from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur is
about two days.
By Bus or Car :
Buses from the Ban San terminus in Singapore travel
to many different points on peninsular Malaysia;
buses from Bangkok or Haadyai in Thailand travel
to both the West and East coasts of Malaysia as
well as to Kuala Lumpur. Entering Malaysia by
rental car is not difficult from either Thailand
or Singapore, and the North-South highway makes
travel along the west coast quite convenient (10-12
hours from Singapore to the Thai border). |
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