Malaysian Aviation Fee to manage flight ticket costs forward of GE15 after claims of costs doubling

With Malaysia’s fifteenth normal elections (GE15) set to happen in just below a month any further Saturday, November 19, 2022, many will likely be planning to journey to their assigned polling places. Whereas most will likely be driving, others will use public transport to get to the place they should go.

For individuals who should e-book a flight, transport minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has stated that the Malaysian Aviation Fee (MAVCOM) will regulate the costs of flight tickets to make sure airways don’t improve costs arbitrarily forward of GE15, Bernama experiences.

This comes following allegations that airline ticket costs had elevated considerably following the announcement of the polling date for GE15 yesterday. A fast examine on social media confirmed loads of customers confronted with costly fares, together with Twitter person @IcedNyior, who was quoted RM730 to fly from Johor Bahru to Kuching, double what she was initially quoted.

One other person with the Twitter deal with @brandconsultant stated a direct financial system flight between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur prices as a lot as RM2,376 over the election weekend, whereas it was as a lot as RM720 from Kuala Lumpur to Kuching and as much as RM647 between Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.

Wee defined that flight ticket costs would usually improve in response to the dynamic pricing mechanism, which usually occurs if there was an occasion involving a lot of passenger actions.

Even so, he stated MAVCOM would take actions if airways had been discovered to have raised costs towards the set situations. “Based mostly on the dynamic pricing mechanism for any airline on this planet, the sooner it (the ticket) is booked, the cheaper it’s and the nearer to a date or occasion, the value will likely be greater,” he defined.

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