The Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Terminal 1 aerotrain is expected to resume service by the end of this month, reported The Star. All tests have been completed by Malaysia Airports Holdings (MAHB), and the full report is being prepared for the Land Public Transport Agency (APAD), transport minister Anthony Loke has said.
“Once it is verified by APAD, we expect the aerotrain to resume its 24-hour service by the end of May. In fact, it is still running now, although there are several hours in the night for track maintenance,” said the transport minister.
After the suspension of service in March 2023 as a precautionary measure following a major breakdown, the aerotrain service at KLIA Terminal 1 resumed service in July 2025 following a RM456 million upgrade exercise as part of a RM742 million initiative by MAHB. However, the service has since been beset by disruptions, and an independent assessment of the new aerotrains followed.
On November 10, MAHB had announced a scheduled suspension of aerotrain operations between midnight and 5 am daily to facilitate routine maintenance and system checks. Shortly thereafter, the aerotrain service was scheduled to include a nightly shutdown until December, for inspection and rectification works. As of February, the operational service availability of the service improved to 100% in December 2025 from 98.67% in July, according to MAHB.
The aerotrain service has transported more than 6.55 million passengers and taken more than 95,000 trips, according to the latest report by The Star.
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Complete and utter waste of RM456 million upgrade and the more than 2 year wait.
Guaranteed to breakdown soon again.
Someone needs to be responsible for this fiasco.
MAHB and Pestech bigboss cronies earning big fat million ringgit salary to produce this sort of nonsense.
The Aerotrain service started when KLIA opened in 1998.
From 1 Nov 2010 to 15 March 2011, the Aerotrain service was suspended for upgrading works.
On 25 Dec 2017, one of the two trains broke down between the two terminals.
As far back as over 15 years ago, they already knew that the Aerotrain was starting to have problems, but nobody then wanted to provide a long term solution.
i wonder whats the issue with aerotrain. the track is not as far as our LRT/MRT, but looks like it caught more problems than those with longer downtime. why dont just hire prasarana to maintain?
we dont hear of any problems about KLIA ekspres, govt should have hired that same contractor YTL to upgrade and maintain KLIA aerotrain
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You’re too sick and too tired to realise that the transport minister represents the Malaysian government, which is a shareholder of MAHB and also the owner of KLIA, and you can’t fire the shareholder and owner.
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The genuine rakyat Malaysia know that KLIA is already in Malaysia, and thus, the Malaysian transport minister has jurisdiction over it. Are u sure u are really rakyat Malaysia?