New scheduled flights ex Melbourne

Commencing 16 September 2009, Malaysia Airlines is pleased to announce the new scheduled flights ex Melbourne with direct services to Jakarta.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH146 from Melbourne to Jakarta and on to Kuala Lumpur will operate 3 times a week, on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. This flight will depart Melbourne at 0001am and will arrive in Jakarta at 0400am, departing Jakarta at 0500am and arriving in Kuala Lumpur at 0800am.  The return flight, MH147 will also operate 3 times a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, departing Kuala Lumpur at 2135pm, arriving into Jakarta at 2235pm, departing Jakarta at 2335 and arrival into Melbourne at 0850am the next morning.

These flights offer excellent connections to many destinations on the Malaysia Airlines network, with direct access to Indonesia’s domestic network.

Malaysia Airlines Area Manager VIC TAS Giles Gilbert commented “we are extremely excited about this new route and see this as a great opportunity for us to provide Victorians Five Star Malaysian Hospitality with the World Best Cabin Crew to the capital of Indonesia with excellent connections to many domestic Indonesian destinations. Fares to Jakarta start from just AUD538 plus taxes of AUD241.54 with fares to domestic destinations to be launched very soon”. In addition he said “We are proud to be providing Victoria and Melbourne with more direct access to international destinations and look forward to serving Victorians needs to and from these 2 major South East Asia gateways”.

Malaysia Airlines presently flies Boeing 777-200 aircraft twice daily departing Melbourne to Kuala with connections to more than 100 destinations.

Malaysia Airlines offers full 5-star service from our award winning World’s Best Cabin Crew.

These flights allow stopovers in both Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta and all passengers are required to take note of Visa requirements for Indonesia.