KL-JB ETS rail service rush puts fares under the spotlight
Chinese New Year seats are nearly gone and Hari Raya demand is building, says rail operator KTMB
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[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur-Johor Bahru Electric Train Service (ETS) is seeing a festive-season rush beyond the December holidays into Chinese New Year and the Hari Raya travel window, that is reviving long-suppressed travel demand.
It is also reopening the discussion of what value looks like on the southern transport corridor.
In the festive travel run-up, about 95 per cent of the 18,864 tickets allocated for Chinese New Year travel from Feb 15 to 20 have already been snapped up, said Malaysia’s national railway operator, Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), in response to queries from The Business Times.
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