KINIBIZ Malaysia Airlines has cancelled one out of two daily flights on the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route effective May 1, presumably due to a drop in demand for flights between China and Malaysia in the wake of the MH370 tragedy.

The daily redeye flight with the flight number MH318 departing Kuala Lumpur for Beijing at 12:25am has been removed from Malaysia Airlines’ online booking engine for departures from May 1 onwards.

MH318 was previously tagged as MH370. Malaysia Airlines retired the MH370 Kuala Lumpur-Beijing and MH371 Beijing-Kuala Lumpur flight codes on March 14 as a mark of respect to the missing passengers and crew of MH370 which departed on March 8, 2014.

The halving of flight frequencies would cut the number of seats offered by the carrier to Beijing from 4,000 to 2,000 seats per week. Malaysia Airlines has been offering passengers two daily flights between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing since early 2012.

Malaysia Airlines was not immediately available to explain why it was halving the number of scheduled flights on the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route.

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