Malaysia Airlines has signed a code-share agreement with American Airlines, one of its partner airlines in the oneworld alliance. The national carrier can now offer seamless one-stop air connectivity between Kuala Lumpur and several Eastern cities in the United States of America (USA).

The code-share, effective 25 March 2013, enables customers in Malaysia and the USA to book direct with Malaysia Airlines and take advantage of 136 weekly connection options between Kuala Lumpur and the US Cities of Chicago, Dallas, New York, Miami and Raleigh through any one of its 3 European stations namely London, Paris and Frankfurt. All code share services between Europe and the USA will be marketed as Malaysia Airlines flights thus simplifying ticketing to one document issued by the national carrier.

Malaysia Airlines suspended flights to New York some years back as part of its route rationalization, but has now reactivated the route through the code share which allows a total of 15 weekly connection options to that city via its twice daily A380 flights to London and daily A380 flights to Paris. The return from New York to Kuala Lumpur is also now possible through 21 weekly connections to the national carrier’s A380 flights from London and Paris.

Likewise, customers from Malaysia can now travel on Malaysia Airlines’ A380 services to London and Paris as well as the B777 services to Frankfurt to connect the 19 weekly services to Dallas. Return travel from Dallas to Kuala Lumpur is possible through 14 weekly connections to Malaysia Airlines flights from London, Paris and Frankfurt.

Access from Malaysia to the idyllic holiday destination of Miami in Florida, USA is now possible through either a transit in London or Paris which provide 14 weekly flights to the US city. There are also 12 weekly air travel options from Miami to connect Malaysia Airlines A380 flights from both London and Paris to Kuala Lumpur.

Chicago, synonymous with spectacular theatre, gourmet dining, world-class museums and great shopping can now be reached through Malaysia Airlines A380 flights from Kuala Lumpur to London and Paris using 16 weekly connections between the two European cities and the US city in each direction.

Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina, USA is yet another city that will be connected with Kuala Lumpur through this code share. Customers can travel on Malaysia Airlines to London and connect to this city through twice weekly services from the UK capital and for the return, travel on any one of the daily flights to London and continue their journey with Malaysia Airlines to Kuala Lumpur.

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