Students and teachers can now enjoy a 20 percent discount off domestic airfares with Malaysia Airlines when schools reopen, announced Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Discounts were also extended to lecturers and students of higher learning institutions, he said. This comes after a special ministers' meeting in which cheaper flights were discussed to help the education sector reopen post-Covid-19.

"Some teachers (on the peninsula) have to...