KKIA fiasco spotlights need for Labuan bridge

The state supervision has systematic a full review as well as reason for a means of a flight disruptions upon Thursday.

KOTA KINABALU: The nine-hour shutdown of Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) stranding thousands of out as well as in-bound passengers upon Thursday has breathed brand new life into demands that a overpass be built connecting Labuan island as well as a airport to a Sabah mainland.

The Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) pronounced a second general airport link within driving distance from a state collateral such as in a general taxation haven would raise a mercantile profile of both destinations.

Besides this, with a construction of a overpass joining Labuan as well as a mainland, a journey to a state collateral would be shortened.

Party president Yong Teck Lee done a proposal when commenting upon a annoying closure of a KKIA upon Thursday due to malfunctioning runway lights.

Thousands of passengers were stranded when a runway lights during a KKIA unexpected went out during 6.20pm causing all incoming flights to be diverted to a Labuan airport.

Among those passengers influenced were Plantation Industries as well as Commodity Minister Bernard Dompok, who was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Labuan, whilst Sabah Youth as well as Sports Minister Peter Pang had to desert his devise to fly to Sandakan.

Yong questioned how such a serious malfunction could take place during such an important trickery without any fill-in in place as well as who would recompense those influenced by a foul-up.

He pronounced a disruption highlighted a deficiency of necessary infrastructure in a st! ate.

"If a two comforts were in place, a large indemnification as well as nuisance of this nine-hour shutdown of Kota Kinabalu International Airport could have been alleviated.

"Passengers (of flights) that were diverted to Labuan could have driven behind to KK as well as other mainland destinations," Yong pronounced in a statement issued here today.

Report to be done to state cabinet

Yong had been a proponent for a Labuan Bridge that he pronounced would have a huge mercantile as well as amicable stroke for Labuan as well as Sabah though this was deserted by Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in 2010.

Meanwhile, a state supervision has systematic a full review as well as reason for a means of a flight disruptions upon a night before of Hari Raya Aidiladha holiday.

State Tourism, Culture as well as Environment minister Masidi Manjun pronounced he expected Malaysia Airports Berhad as well as a Civil Aviation Department to insist a incident to a state cupboard during a subsequent meeting.

"There is still no certainty if a runway lights complaint will be solved as well as this is an emanate of great concern to Sabah. This should poke those in authority like a Transport Ministry as well as MAB to rught away take movement as well as safeguard it does not occur again.

"KKIA is a busiest airport after Kuala Lumpur International Airport as well as it is utterly inconceivable that a operations could be knocked out by runway light complaint with no apparent behind up strait plan," he told a media.

About 40 flights were disrupted upon Thursday affecting about 5,000 passengers.

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