GETTING food poisoning in any situation is an unpleasant experience. But imagine getting it at 35,000 feet in the air, and having hundreds of passengers’ lives depend on you.
GEORGE TOWN: Passengers onboard a flight from Singapore that landed at the Penang International Airport on Friday (April 1) were greeted with a water cannon salute, marking the first day of the reopening of international borders.
PETALING JAYA: KL International Airport (KLIA) is one of the world s top 10 airports in 2020 amidst extreme conditions, according to the global Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey.
The survey by Airports Council International (ACI) named KLIA as one of the top 10 in the world in the category of airports with over 40 million passengers per annum in 2020.
In a statement issued on Monday (March 15), Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd group chief executive officer Datuk Mohd Shukrie Mohd Salleh stated that the placing was due to the airport s continuous efforts to improve despite being hit severely by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mohd Shukrie said this led to KLIA achieving an annual score of 4.98 over 5.00 in 2020, an improvement over 2019 when the airport ranked at 17th place with a score of 4.76.
Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional’s profit from operations plunged 60.81% last year, hit by higher impairments and lower divestment gains amid the coronavirus crisis, and it expects 2021 to remain challenging, with the key aviation and tourism sectors unlikely to recover fully before 2023.
The fund’s profit from operations declined to 2.9 billion ringgit (US$712.22 million) from 7.4 billion ringgit in 2019.
Although dividend income from investee companies jumped 36.84% to 5.2 billion ringgit, this was offset by a sharp drop in divestment gains to 2.7 billion ringgit from 9.9 billion ringgit in 2019.
Nevertheless, the wealth fund doubled dividend payments to the government, its sole shareholder, to 2 billion ringgit from 1 billion ringgit in 2019.