News & Reviews:   Travel

Recently, we shared a few essential tech tips for post-pandemic international travel, including familiarising yourself with a specific country’s contact tracing app. Well, that includes our country’s own MySejahtera app, which until today requires those entering Malaysia to fill in its Traveller Pass feature.

However, the requirement will be rescinded starting this 4 July 2022 for Malaysians coming back home from overseas, though it will still be enforced for foreign nationals entering our country. This was announced by Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin through a Ministry of Health statement yesterday.

The airasia Super App today announce its partnership with Trip.com, one of the world’s leading online travel agents and a brand under the Trip.com Group. The partnership gives airasia Super App access to over 1.2 million additional hotels from 200 countries and regions.

airasia Super App lauded the partnership in a statement today and said that it would strengthen its position as one of ASEAN’s top online travel agents (OTAs). Furthermore, it would provide travellers with even more choice and value to complement their travel plans.

Good news to those who are planning to travel! Today, the Ambassador and Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Malaysia, Michalis Rokas, tweeted that the European Commission (EC) has decided to recognize the MySejahtera certificate. 

Today, our Minister of Health Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar just announced a new website about travelling protocols amid the pandemic. Launched as covidprotocol.moh.gov.my, the web portal's purpose is to facilitate Malaysians and travellers entering in and out of the country.

Based on a statement by bbc.com, it seems that AirAsia Founder Tony Fernandes wants to develop an all-in-one app to take on Grab, Gojek, and more. With that said, the aforementioned app that Tony wants to work on will come equipped with various services ranging from transportation, delivery, e-wallet, and potentially more.

Earlier today, AirAsia X has officially announced that they will be offering the AirAsia Unlimited Pass exclusive to AirAsia Big Members which allows you to fly as many times as you want for a year at the price of RM499. The offer will be available starting from now until 7 March 2020, so act fast if you’re keen on travelling!

After many problems and bumps along the way, Putrajaya has finally said yes to legalising both Uber and Grab in Malaysia. The government has tasked the Land and Public Transport Commission (SPAD) to iron out the terms and conditions.