SkyPark Terminal is the first airport in Malaysia to work with Grab, and has made it the terminal’s official ride hailing service.
Ride hailing service Grab has inked a four-year agreement with Subang Skypark Terminal, Kuala Lumpur, allowing it to pick up passengers arriving at the airport.
SkyPark Terminal is the first airport in Malaysia to work with Grab, and has made it the terminal’s official ride hailing service.
It is also the first time a ride hailing service has been allowed to ferry passengers from an airport. Malaysia’s airports do not allow city taxis to transport arriving passengers. Instead they operate a coupon system for taxis.
However, after complaints from passengers at KL International airport and budget terminal klia2 in Sepang on the lack of couponed taxis, city cabs are allowed to pick up incoming passengers.
This collaboration is unlikely to go down well with taxis operating from Skypark Terminal using the coupon system. As it is, public taxis have protested against Grab and Uber numerous times, citing unfair competition, and have called on the government to end their services
Subang SkyPark Sdn Bhd executive director Tan Sri Ravindran Menon said the agreement to allow Grab to operate from the airport was for the convenience of the passengers by providing them with safe and cost-effective rides.
Arriving travellers will be able to book Grab rides in the arrival hall at a Grab kiosk.
In a related development, Ravindran also revealed that Skypark Terminal 2 would be launched in the first half 2017. It will increase the airport’s capability to serve five million passengers by 2020 from the 3.1 million currently.
Skypark Terminal, also known as Subang Airport or the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, was the former international airport for Kuala Lumpur before it moved to Sepang. It reopened in 2008 for domestic and private flights and handled 300,000 passengers then.