AIRASIA NOW FLIES KUALA LUMPUR - LONDON NON-STOP

Home grown low-cost airline Airasia has now opened the much anticipated KL - London route. Fares start from £99 (RM499) per way and will make use of Airasia's Airbus A340 fleet of jets. Head on over to www.airasia.com to make your bookings.

Flights will be operated by Airasia X, Airasia's wholly owned, long haul brand.

The Malaysian government has announced a further cut in the price of fuel (petrol and diesel). These are the latest prices:

RM2.00 / liter for petrol
RM1.90 / liter for diesel

There has been some minor reshuffling in the Kuching office with our long-suffering Operations Executive Timothy moving to the Admin Department and Grace, our junior guide,  trying her hand in the Operations Department. She will also be called upon to guide whenever she is needed.

We recently hosted a dinner at The Sarawak Club with representatives of the Malaysian Gas Association Secretariat about the possibility of  Borneo as the destination for their International Gas Union Conference in September 2008. The representatives were Mdm Chai Siew Lin (Head Corporate Communication, Malaysian Gas Association), Ms Putri Mohd Kassim (Assistant Secretary, Malaysian Gas Association) and Nal-A'zizi Nawawi (Gas Supply Planning, Petronas) while Sabrina Loh of Hilton KL was also in attendance.