KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Low-cost carrier Firefly has postponed its plan to launch the Malacca-Singapore route.

Its marketing and communications head Angelina Fernandez said the postponement was to allow Firefly to restrategise its plans.

She said this would enable the company to find ways to fulfil the Malacca government’s request to fly from the state to Indonesian destinations such as Pekan Baru, Djambi, Palembang and Batam to tap the medical tourism market.

‘We shall continue our dialogue with the Malacca government.

‘We remain optimistic that Firefly will light up Malacca just like how we did for Perak,’ she said.

Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam had earlier expressed his disappointment with Firefly for scrapping its plans to fly to Singapore from the state, which had spent RM131.5mil to upgrade its airport.

Source: AsiaOne