Saturday 31 December 2016

Lucky Air launches direct scheduled flight to Kuala Lumpur on 23 January 2017, plans more long-haul flights

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Lucky Air, the Kunming Changshui Airport-based low-cost subsidiary of Hainan Airlines, is launching non-stop scheduled flight from Kunming to Kuala Lumpur using one of its B737 aircraft on 23 January 2017. Flights are operated on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Kunming Changshui International Airport to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang.

On 23 January 2017, Lucky Air flight 8L9595 departs from Kunming Changshui for KLIA at 8.50 am, arrives in KLIA at 12.35 pm before leaving KLIA at 1.35 pm and touching down in Kunming Changshui at 5.15 pm under flight 8L9596.

To celebrate the opening of its Kunming-Kuala Lumpur route, Lucky Air is selling one-way ticket from a promotion fare of 120 RMB (estimated 25 Singapore Dollars) and a return ticket from an unbelievable fare of 210 RMB (estimated 44 Singapore Dollars) at www.luckyair.net. Members of the public may participate in its online contest to win free return tickets to Kuala Lumpur or collect free Lucky inflight pillows or 30 cm-long Lucky Air aircraft models.

It is not the first time Lucky Air is launching flight to Malaysia. On 20 December 2016, it launched its first weekly flight to Penang at 8.50 am, arrived in Penang at 12.20 pm under flight 8L9513 and left for Kunming Changshui at 1.45 pm and arrived in Kunming at 5 pm under flight 8L9514. Flights between Kunming and Penang are on Tuesdays and Saturdays. On 6 July 2016, it launched its first regular flight to Kota Kinabalu from Kunming using Airbus A320 aircraft. Flights between Kunming and Kota Kinabalu are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Besides Kuala Lumpur, Lucky Air has plans to resume flights to Singapore without transit in Guiyang as early as in 2017, operate non-stop flights to Manila, Colombo, Kathmandu, Mumbai, Delhi and Dhaka as well as open international routes to Europe, Australasia and North America via Chengdu and Zhengzhou.

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