SUBANG/ TOKYO November 30, 2007 - ANA and Malaysia Airlines will extend their code-sharing agreement to include domestic sectors within both countries, from December 1 this year.

In the second expansion since they began code-sharing in March 2004 on flights between Malaysia and Japan, ANA will carry Malaysian Airlines’ flight code, MH, on journeys between Tokyo and Fukuoka, and Tokyo and Nagoya, while Malaysia Airlines will carry the ANA flight code, NH, on journeys between Kuala Lumpur and the Malaysian destinations of Langkawi, Kuching, Penang and Kota Kinabalu.

“ANA passengers will have the convenience of travelling to even more destinations in Malaysia - including the ever popular resorts of Penang and Langkawi - using just ANA’s flight code and a single e-ticket,” said Keisuke Okada, ANA’s executive vice president International Relations. “With through baggage and on-line booking, it will make their journeys simpler and smoother,” he continued.

Malaysia Airlines Managing Director/CEO, Datuk Sri Idris Jala said “The further enhancement of this code share agreement strengthens our hub-and-spoke business strategy that allows our customers access to many destinations in Japan. As both carriers provide seamless passenger connections to more domestic destinations in Japan and Malaysia, we are optimistic that our load factor on the Malaysia-Japan return routes will further improve and contribute to our bottomline”.

“The strategy of developing hub-and-spoke is a crucial part of our Business Turnaround Plan. To date, we are seeing yield and load factor improvements on routes which we do hub-and-spoke," he added.

About Malaysia Airlines and All Nippon Airways Code Share Agreement

In February 2004, Malaysia Airlines and All Nippon Airways (ANA) signed the first code share agreement on air routes between Japan and Malaysia on a “block seat” arrangement basis where a pre-determined passenger seat inventory of Malaysia Airlines was marketed by ANA.

Currently, Malaysia Airlines operates 14 weekly return services between Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo with two return services operated via Kota Kinabalu. It also operates daily services between Kuala Lumpur and Osaka with two flights from Osaka to Kuala Lumpur operated via Kota Kinabalu. All these flights are operated using a 282 seater Boeing 777-200 aircraft. It also operates 3 weekly services between Kuala Lumpur and Nagoya using a 229 seater Airbus 330-200 aircraft.

ANA operates two daily flights on the Tokyo Narita - Nagoya and Tokyo Narita - Fukuoka routes. One each of those flights will carry the Malaysia Airlines flight code (see appendix for details of flight times and aircraft type).