KLIA and LCCT

Have you ever heard about this two main airport? This is our Malaysia major airport for air transportation. Well known with service of aircraft cargos and passengers. It is the same airport but different terminal, different buildings, situated at different ends of the runway. KLIA is Terminal 1 and LCCT is Terminal 2. The two terminals are probably 20 miles apart.

First and foremost, let’s talk about KLIA. The airport is called Kuala Lumpur International Airport, but well known as KLIA. We can say that KLIA is a landmark of Malaysia. It is the main international airport in Malaysia located in Sepang district of Selangor. KLIA is the biggest airport in our country with 100 square kilometres, although there is total of 58 other airport on East and Peninsular Malaysia. Mostly, the other airport is for domestic flight only. 

It began its operations in June 1998 and still operates until now. KLIA is capable of handling 35 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo a year in its current phase. The airport was officially inaugurated by Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s Duli Yang Maha Mulia Almarhum Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman. The airport is operated by Malaysia Airporsts (MAHB) Sepang Sdn. Bhd. and is the major hub of Malaysia Airlines, MASkargo, AirAsia, AirAsia Malindo Air and Department of Civil Aviation (DCA).

There are an international and domestic flights operating on the airport, therefore terminals of the airport are well equipped with immigration processing facilities with security scanning to all passengers. KLIA is most popular with international flights. Due to the price ticket offered on domestic flight is way too high.

Another major airport is Low Cost Carrier Terminal, LCCT also known as budget terminal. It was opened at KLIA to satisfy for the demand of users of low cost airlines, especially the passengers of Malaysia’s first ‘no-frills’ airline, AirAsia. Like I mention before, LCCT located about 20km away from Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s Main Terminal Building (MTB), the 35,290 square meters LCCT was constructed on a fast track basis at the beginning of June 2005.

This airport is fully operating on 23^rd of March 2006. LCCT was the first airport to have separation between normal carriers and low cost carrier. The terminal may have different charges and costs. The concept of the budget terminal was taking the lead by Tony Fernandes of AirAsia at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in 2006.