28mins on the KLIA express

[travellator]

recently took the klia express back from the airport to KL sentral. spent the 28mins taking photos
leaving airport, airport perimeter fencing






approaching Bdr Tasik Selatan station












opposite travelling train rushing pass


Sungeibesi aerodome with the city in the background


approaching KL Sentral Station and end of journey

[Skyprince]

Great Travellator !

Believe me, KLIA Ekspres/Transit is a superb and very exciting ride !

The interior design, the scenery out of the train, and most importantly the MUSIC

[travellator]

thanks sp, also liked your langkawi trip photos. like you i also went on a short trip to see Angkor Wat in Cambodia. If you can pls visit the thread here http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=510424

some photos of trip

[OshHisham]

travellator, are you involving in any conservation projects?i'm just curious...
"...i also went on a short trip to see Angkor Wat in Cambodia"

[travellator]

Originally Posted by oshkoshbgood

travellator, are you involving in any conservation projects?i'm just curious...
"...i also went on a short trip to see Angkor Wat in Cambodia"

no i am not involved with conservation but historical buildings & things interest me. old parts of a city or ancient ruins are what i enjoy visiting. am really looking to travel to egypt, jordan and other mideast places once it is safer to do so.

[fairul]

i miss taking the erl to work....thx for the photos..

[KING BOB]

Thanks for the photos, Great pics Travellator, what camera are you using???

[^tamago^]

Originally Posted by KING BOB

Thanks for the photos, Great pics Travellator, what camera are you using???

Canon Powershot S3 IS.

[travellator]

Will many passengers use this service...

ERL To Offer Check-out Service At KL Sentral Early Next Year

From Umi Hani Sharani

STOCKHOLM, Oct 1 (Bernama) -- Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd, the operator of the high-speed direct rail service between the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the city, plans to provide a check-out service at the Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station for passengers arriving on board Malaysia Airlines flights early next year.

Its chief executive officer, Dr Aminuddin Adnan, said this will be done via the installation of a RM100 million high speed conveyor belt at the airport which will enable baggage to be transported to the satellite building almost five times faster before being shipped off by the rail service to ERL's KL Sentral station.

"With this system, passengers can walk around KLIA, maybe do a little shopping, before boarding the train and picking up their baggage at KL Sentral," he told Malaysian media recently at the World Route Development Forum here.

According to Dr Aminuddin, the high speed baggage handling system to be built by German firm Siemens AG and funded by the government, will be ready by November and will undergo a trial run for a month.

Baggage will be tagged by bar codes which allow passengers to keep track of them, and there will be no time limit for them to pick up the bags.

"We are talking to Malaysia Airlines to package this service with their sales. We believe this will be more attractive to the foreigners," he said.

He added that ERL has yet to start talking to other airlines for this service until the service agreement is finalised with Malaysia Airlines.

Security, he said, will not be an issue as all the necessary procedures involving the authorities will be taken at the check-out counter.

"There will be a slight increase in baggage handling manpower, but security won't be an issue," he said.

Dr Aminuddin said the firm expects the check-out service to achieve, if not surpass, the volume of the check-in service currently operating at KL Sentral.

"About 20 percent of the passengers use our check-in service currently, and we hope to attract the same kind of passenger numbers, or maybe extra 5-10 percent passengers. It depends on the promotion by airlines as well," he noted.

He also said that ERL is in talks with several airlines including Thai Airways, KLM and Air France to open check-in service counters at KL Sentral.

[argory]

Seems like a good idea. Didn't know about that high-speed conveyor belt though.

[travellator]

Originally Posted by travellator

Will many passengers use this service...

ERL To Offer Check-out Service At KL Sentral Early Next Year

From Umi Hani Sharani

STOCKHOLM, Oct 1 (Bernama) -- Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd, the operator of the high-speed direct rail service between the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the city, plans to provide a check-out service at the Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station for passengers arriving on board Malaysia Airlines flights early next year.

Its chief executive officer, Dr Aminuddin Adnan, said this will be done via the installation of a RM100 million high speed conveyor belt at the airport which will enable baggage to be transported to the satellite building almost five times faster before being shipped off by the rail service to ERL's KL Sentral station.

"With this system, passengers can walk around KLIA, maybe do a little shopping, before boarding the train and picking up their baggage at KL Sentral," he told Malaysian media recently at the World Route Development Forum here.

According to Dr Aminuddin, the high speed baggage handling system to be built by German firm Siemens AG and funded by the government, will be ready by November and will undergo a trial run for a month.

Baggage will be tagged by bar codes which allow passengers to keep track of them, and there will be no time limit for them to pick up the bags.

"We are talking to Malaysia Airlines to package this service with their sales. We believe this will be more attractive to the foreigners," he said.

He added that ERL has yet to start talking to other airlines for this service until the service agreement is finalised with Malaysia Airlines.

Security, he said, will not be an issue as all the necessary procedures involving the authorities will be taken at the check-out counter.

"There will be a slight increase in baggage handling manpower, but security won't be an issue," he said.

Dr Aminuddin said the firm expects the check-out service to achieve, if not surpass, the volume of the check-in service currently operating at KL Sentral.

"About 20 percent of the passengers use our check-in service currently, and we hope to attract the same kind of passenger numbers, or maybe extra 5-10 percent passengers. It depends on the promotion by airlines as well," he noted.

He also said that ERL is in talks with several airlines including Thai Airways, KLM and Air France to open check-in service counters at KL Sentral.

update....

13-12-2007: ERL targets European passengers
By Sharmila Ganapathy
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KUALA LUMPUR: Rail operator Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd (ERL) says its checkout facility that will open at the KL Sentral city air terminal next year is expected to increase its passenger numbers by at least 5%.

The facility targets European and other long-distant travellers.

“Europe is a good market for us based on our research. Apart from the Asean market, we have a huge customer base from China and Australia,” ERLSB chief executive officer Aminuddin Adnan told The Edge Financial Daily.

Currently, international travellers make up 40% of the rail operator’s passengers.

ERLSB hopes the introduction of the facility and its collaboration with global travel distribution system, Amadeus, will improve the ratio.

Aminuddin said ERLSB would review the model Amadeus had designed for it next month before formalising a partnership agreement.

Amadeus is Western Europe’s largest online travel agency in 2006, with a 64.2% market share.

He added ERLSB was keen to work with similar operators, such as Abacus and Galileo, which have strong presence in the Asian and European markets respectively.

The rollout of the checkout system will be slightly delayed from the original date of January 2008, due to power supply issues.

“It will be happening only in March 2008, as the power supply to run full operations will only be ready in March,” Aminuddin said.

ERLSB yesterday celebrated its 20 millionth passenger. Seventy-one year-old Malaysian S Vellayutham walked away with an Emirates Airlines’ return ticket to Dubai.

Aminuddin said ERLSB notched an average of 5,200 passengers a day for KLIA Express and another 7,300 a day for KLIA Transit.

The operator has carried more than 4 million passengers this year, bringing its cumulative ridership to 21 million passengers.

[pynshi91]

nice..~

[taro_80]

i dont think it will work perfert becuz of the space in KL sentral...i rather pick up my baggage @ KLIA cuz there is more spacious and not so pack.

[rizalhakim]

ERL chief: We're better than Europe


The ERL plays an important part in raising Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s image, says Express Rail Link Sdn Bhd chief executive Dr Aminuddin Adnan


KUALA LUMPUR: Express Rail Link will help raise Kuala Lumpur International Airport's image as Asia's superior regional hub soon.


Dr Aminuddin Adnan

Express Rail Link (ERL) Sdn Bhd chief executive Dr Aminuddin Adnan said KLIA's image will be given a boost when ERL offers "check-out" service at KL Sentral's Air Terminal.

He said since ERL started operations in 2002, it had carried more than 20 million passengers.

Aminuddin said this when refuting claims by KTMB Workers Union president Abdul Razak Md Hassan that the service was not practical and cost-effective in a report in Mingguan Malaysia on Sunday when rejecting a proposal to start a bullet train service to Singapore.

"Overall expenditure on the project was RM2 billion, which remained the lowest cost per kilometre, or RM35 million, (20 per cent of the cost of Heathrow Express in London)," he said.

Aminuddin added that the ERL service was 99.7 per cent reliable, which was much better than similar services in Europe or local train services.

He also said the RM35 fee per trip was significantly cheaper than in London which charged STG17 (RM107) for half the distance.

He said the ERL was also environmentally friendly as its trains used electricity.

"Having had 20 million passengers to date, we have significantly reduced the number of road accidents," he said.

Aminuddin said the ERL project was completed on schedule, without cost overruns, and was operating smoothly.

"The achievements of this project clearly reflect the foresight and vision of its founders," he said.

[rizalhakim]

ERL jual tiket menerusi Sistem Pengedaran Global


EXPRESS Rail Link (ERL), penyedia perkhidmatan KLIA Ekspres, akan mula memasarkan tiket perkhidmatannya ke seluruh dunia dalam tempoh beberapa bulan akan datang sejajar rancangan pengembangan operasinya.

Ini susulan kerjasama yang dijalin ERL dengan Amadeus di bawah jenama ‘Airport Express’, yang mana tiket tren KLIA Ekspres kini boleh didapati di 380,000 pusat jualan syarikat yang berpangkalan di Eropah itu.

Ketua Eksekutifnya, Dr Aminuddin Adnan, berkata kerjasama itu menjadikan ERL sebagai penyedia perkhidmatan tren pertama di negara ini yang menawarkan tiket ke seluruh dunia menerusi Sistem Pengedaran Global (GDS) yang disediakan Amadeus.



“Perkhidmatan ini biasanya ditawarkan syarikat penerbangan. Kami berbangga menjadi antara penyedia perkhidmatan tren terawal di dunia yang menawarkan perkhidmatan ini,” katanya kepada media pada majlis penyampaian hadiah peraduan ‘Ride and Win’ di Kuala Lumpur, semalam.

Hadir sama, wakil dua rakan strategik peraduan berkenaan iaitu Pengurus Negara Emirates Airlines, Alban Lee dan Pengarah Pemasaran LG Electronics, R Paramesvaran.

Aminuddin berkata, pihaknya berbangga mendapat kepercayaan Amadeus untuk melaksanakan projek berkenaan yang dijangka mampu meningkatkan bilangan penumpang KLIA Ekspres pada masa depan.

Antara pengendali perkhidmatan tren lapangan terbang terkemuka dunia yang menjalin kerjasama dengan Amadeus termasuk Heathrow Express dan Stockholm Arlanda Express.

“Kami yakin ia bukan saja mampu meletakkan nama kami di peta global, malah akan terus menjadi pilihan pengangkutan yang digemari bagi laluan Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) ke ibu negara,” katanya.

Sementara itu, beliau berkata, peraduan ‘Ride and Win’ yang diadakan selama tiga bulan bermula 14 Jun hingga 13 April lalu adalah sempena meraikan penumpang ke 20 juta yang dicatatkan KLIA Ekspres Disember lalu.

“Hampir 70 peratus penumpang KLIA Ekspres setakat ini adalah mereka yang mempunyai urusan perniagaan. Kami tahu bukan mudah untuk menarik golongan ini untuk menggunakan perkhidmatan KLIA Ekspres,” katanya.

Aminuddin menambah, peraduan berkenaan berjaya menarik kira-kira 100,000 penyertaan atau 20 peratus daripada jumlah penumpang keseluruhan KLIA Ekspres sepanjang tempoh peraduan.

“Malah, sepanjang tempoh peraduan berlangsung, jumlah pelanggan yang pertama kali menggunakan perkhidmatan KLIA Ekspres meningkat lima peratus, sekali gus membuktikan keberkesanan kempen ini,” katanya sambil tidak menolak untuk menganjurkan lebih banyak kempen serupa pada masa depan.

[rizalhakim]

ERL tickets on sale worldwide


Grand prize winners Ahmad Faizal Sulaiman (left), Emmelia Nasir and Ahmad Firdaus Abdul Rahim receive a 42-inch LG Black Pearl liquid crystal display TV each.


KUALA LUMPUR: The Express Rail Link (ERL) to Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang will become part of the Amadeus Global Distribution System, one of the largest travel networks, in the next few months.

ERL chief executive officer Dr Aminuddin Adnan said ERL tickets would be made available in 380,000 travel agencies all over the world, especially in Europe.

He announced this at a prize-giving ceremony of the Ride and Win contest that ERL organised together with LG Electronics (M) Sdn Bhd and Emirates Airlines early this year.

The contest, which was to mark ERL's recent milestone of carrying more than 20 million passengers, saw three winners in the fortnightly category walking away with Emirates return flight tickets to Paris, Venice or London.

The winners - Azlul Shkib Arslan, K. Kalaiselvam and Carly George - said they were thrilled to have a chance to travel to the destinations.

The grand prize winners were Emmelia Nasir, Ahmad Firdaus Abdul Rahim and Ahmad Faizal Sulaiman.

Each received a 42-inch LG Black Pearl liquid crystal display TV.

[nazrey]

Kids get free KLIA Ekspres rides
Wednesday August 13, 2008 MYT 4:16:18 PM
By YUEN MEIKENG
TheStar

KUALA LUMPUR: Good news for families planning to go on vacation this coming school holidays -- children up to 12 years old will be able to travel with their parents on the KLIA Ekspres for free.

Under the "Kids Travel Free" package offered by the Express Rail Link (ERL), parents need only pay RM140 for two return journey tickets and a maximum of two children would be able to hop on board the train at no charge.

Children below two years old do not require any tickets.

This promotion enables families to travel from KL Sentral to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and is valid from Aug 16 to 24.

The first train departs at 5am while the last leaves KL Sentral for KLIA at 12.30am. The last train from KLIA to KL Sentral departs at 1am.

For more information, contact the ERL call centre at (603) 2267-8000 or log on to www.KLIAekspres.com.

[nazrey]

Kid's Travel FREE

[nazrey]

by fatinsg

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[nazrey]

KLIA Transit
by split.second

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