PUTRAJAYA: Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai had urged AirAsia to stop raising the issue of renaming the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2).
He said the matter was a non-issue and reiterated the government's stand that it would not be changed.
"It is a non-issue. The airline should not muddle the two issues - airport name and and their promotion exercise as a low-cost carrier. The two are different matters," he said after presenting MCA's contribution worth RM100,000 to the Malaysia Sinology Association today.
Liow, who is also MCA president, said he would be willing to sit down with AirAsia to deliberate on ways to continue promoting their low-cost carrier brand.
But he stressed that he would not have any discussion with AirAsia regarding the airline's request to change the name of klia2 to the Low Cost Carrier Terminal 2 (LCCT2).
On the recent MH370 high-level technical tripartite meeting, Liow said the committee had been updated on the bad weather at the 120,000sq km search grid which had hampered the search operation for the missing aircraft that supposed to be completed next month.
In this respect, he said the technical committee would propose to continue the search in the area until October.
Liow said he expected the ministerial-level meeting to be held tentatively in mid-July.