Malaysian airlines keep to schedule despite Indian alert

Petaling Jaya: Flights going to and from India will keep to their schedules despite Indian airports being put on high terror alert yesterday because of information that militants were plotting to hijack a plane.
An AirAsia spokesperson said airlines was aware of the alert but they had not received any official statement or directive from the Indian authorities.
“Nevertheless, we are monitoring this closely and so far, no flights are affected,” said the spokesperson.
A Malaysia Airlines official said it had yet to receive any official statement from the Indian Go­­vern­ment.
“At the moment, our flights will take off as usual,” said the MAS spokesperson.
23/01/10 The Star Pnline, Malaysia

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