Airasia has began selling tickets starting January 2019 for new flight routes of Bintulu – KK and Sibu – KK. These flight will replace MASWing as an initiative by the new Pakatan Harapan’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke to save the government between RM10 million to RM20 million, currently 30 rural routes operated by MASWing is subsidized by the government as they are deemed to be not profitable.
A quick look for AirAsia’s Bintulu – KK routes shows the lowest price of RM17 before taxes while MAS is charges at lowest RM549 for the remaining month of December as of writting.