Re: First Dubai-New York City non-stop pre-EK is by Malaysia Airlines!?

The flight operated well apparently till EK started their own service, which then flourished and soon MH gave up DXB-EWR-DXB for ARN-EWR-ARN. Similarly, their initial operations into LAX was also threatened when they were the only widebodied airline operating LAX-MEX-LAX (around late 80s or early 90...

Re: 777 - 25 years in commercial service

A record breaking event for the B777 in 1997

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/1997-04-02-Boeing-777-Breaks-Speed-and-Distance-World-Records

Re: Malaysia Mulls Shutting Down or Selling MAS

Qatar, Japan Airlines amomg suitors for Malaysia Airlines

https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/10/533593/qatar-airways-jal-among-suitors-malaysia-airlines

Re: Malaysia Airlines Announces Codeshare Agreement With British Airways (Finally...)

I think this is a good start for a cooperation between the two oneworld members. Hopefully it expands further into their other routes on both sides. BA used to fly into KUL till 2001 using a B772 and it used to be one of their furthest routes at that time. I believe before that, they flew the B747; ...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - April 2019

The issue with Brunei is that if didn’t enforce sharia law decades ago when the world wasn’t as progressive. It’s implemented a barbaric punishment like this in 2019. I don't agree that's the issue. Getting back to STA's ban, I don't believe their ex AU sales on BI are significant- don't know about...

Re: MH an opportunity for IAG?

Actually, lots of issues at MH began when they were sold off to a certain local Malay businessman who eventually drove it to its downfall. Sadly, prior to that, MH was a very established carrier and was On eof the pioneer in what is now known as alliances such as OW, Star and Skyteam. They formed, t...

Re: QR to withdraw its A346 fleet

KUL was one of the few destinations QR considered when refurbishing this aircraft to a two class configuration including BKK, CMB and FCO. Today, KUL has a mixed variation of Airbus and Boeing aircrafts for their three daily flights. I guess KUL is a very mixed market for them. It is indeed sad to s...

Re: ANA expresses interest to Chennai

Great news for MAA and PER and of course NH for carrying out a thorough research on the market they will be serving later this year.

Re: Malaysia Airlines drops first class, rebrands it as Business Suites

Probably, which might benefit the national carrier in the long run, especially in the event of too many unwanted upgrades

Re: Malaysia Airlines drops first class, rebrands it as Business Suites

Apparently, the F suites were often empty so they decided to put it to good use by rebranding it to Business Suites. The price will not be the same as F but at least it will be affordable and worth it.

Re: ANA expresses interest to Chennai

They could also be targeting traffic between North America and Southern India, where many IT professionals originate. Good news for MAA; hopefully they can improve their airport transfers between the city and the airport and within the terminals.

Re: Qatar Airways CEO threatens withdrawal from OneWorld Alliance

I don't think that such an important, rich and excellent airline should be part of an alliance with lower members such as AA, IB and of course Latam. It is interesting to note that the "good" airlines in OW are all big money-loosers except QF and sometimes JL. Haha I meant that they are g...

Re: Qatar Airways CEO threatens withdrawal from OneWorld Alliance

I don't think that such an important, rich and excellent airline should be part of an alliance with lower members such as AA, IB and of course Latam. Of course, they have different circumstances yet AA wants to compare themselves to the likes of QR. I think QR is an excellent airline in terms of pa...

Re: World’s most internationally connected airports list for 2018 revealed, LHR/ORD/FRA taking top 3 spots

Pe@rson wrote:

DXB is number 18 per their methodology.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2018

QF can easily depend on the airline they sponsored to join Oneworld aka MH (Malaysia Airlines) to operate code shared flights between Australia and India through KUL and of course through UL via SIN and BKK and CX via HKG. I doubt QF have code share agreements between KUL and Indian cities. Slightl...

Re: Qatar Airways reveals loss for 2017/2018

The flights times have increased too especially getting into and out of DOH

Personally I feel QR has a better inflight product than EK, especially their cabin service.

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2018

Seems QF is taking out a little insurance policy in case 9W falls over, it's rumoured 9W isn't exactly flush with cash. QF are now offering fares to India via HKG in conjunction with CX and KA. All Indian carriers are suffering at the moment, although 9W has put cost cutting measures in place. With...

Re: Australian Aviation Thread - September 2018

MH to use A333 on MH126/127 to PER from 14 Dec to 22 Dec 18 https://twitter.com/Airlineroute/status/1039649876777283584 Summer increase for KUL-PER-KUL. They are already competing with D7 which uses an A330 on their daily D7236 flight from KUL to PER and will increase it to 11 weekly during the sum...

Re: Emirates expansion in N. America

RIC

Re: Worlds Busiest Air Routes

If you want the top 10 international routes ... https://www.oag.com/hubfs/Free_Reports/Punctuality_League/2018/PunctualityReport2018.pdf?hsCtaTracking=355de328-d17a-4f61-9f5b-137270b39310%7Cf2bdd8b5-dbe9-49fd-9563-aa256d348cfa 1) HKG- TPE 2) KUL - SIN 3) CKG - SIN 4) CKG - KUL 5) HKG - PVG (Shanghai...

Re: Jet Airways: reports cash running out

6E dumps capacity on almost every route, granted they created many new routes, there has to be a moratorium on domestic flights from BOM, DEL and BLR (and may be even MAA, CCU and HYD) due to congestion unless it is to a destination not served previously. This might help Jet and AI who have hubs in...

Re: Services to Pakistan from Asia/Australia

PK flies to KUL almost daily using a B772/B773 from various points of Pakistan.

Re: Malaysian Aviation 2017

A Malaysia Airline flight, MH128 bound for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has diverted back to its origin of Melbourne, Australia in what is said to be an attempted entry into the cockpit by a passenger while the aircraft was climbing at 6000ft. More news here: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/06/...

Re: Malaysian Aviation 2017