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Centrum Air Adds Langkawi in NW24 Uzbek carrier Centrum Air during Northern winter 2024/25 season schedules new service to Langkawi. Tashkent – Langkawi eff 01NOV24 1 weekly A321neo (216 seats) C65547 TAS0430 – 1420LGK 32Q 5 C65548 LGK1550 – 2000TAS 32Q 5 https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240916-c6nw24
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Passed through KUL T1 a couple of days ago. Checkin was a mess with MH queues spilling onto the information counter area. Looks almost like a Disneyland ride queue without the efficiency. QR was also very crowded. Didn’t help that quite a few check-in islands/counters were closed for refurbishment. And it appears that MAHB is refurbishing the arrival baggage belt (I don’t know what’s being done but there are quite a few things done to the ceiling and also installed an X-ray machine just before the bags gets dropped onto the belt). I am curious if they are scanning all bags upon arrival so they can tag those with suspicious belongings for secondary screening.
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There is lots of missing bits of information - MAG is loving their position of being an unlisted company as disclosure requirements are a lot more lenient with no Bursa rules governing them. What we know is that KUL-MEL is their premiere route as they received A359 (9M-MAH) for a while and now that is going to be the first A339's route.
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One 339 in one 333out,how can they make it to triple daily SYD MEL
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Question here is are there still seat not allocated for SYD and MEL? I think Malaysia side has maxed out? Or Capt Izham knows something that we don't know (Malaysia gomen is negotiating a new bilateral agreement with Australia gomen?)
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Bahrain is expected to implement direct flights to Malaysia as early as 2025.
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SZB Taxiway V
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Malaysia Airlines boss pledges work culture overhaul after 12 engineers join Singapore carrier 1 leave 10 join and then 10 while another 2 seniors left in less than 2 years with bonds paid off in a hurry. How is that sustainable lol? Meanwhile management has been mounting flights as if company has a large workforce and parts are in adequate stocking and there are spare planes. The CEO has finally said it outloud. The current salary level is unsustainable(but still remains lowest in Malaysia) and they will gamble with breaking the ratio of seniors to freshies to reduce costs. "Tak suka you boleh keluar". That is why they reduce the basic pay but increased the supposed allowance(but this is hindered by staff mental and health limitation plus global aviation regulation) in the end the take back home pay is not up to par locally hence significant attrition occurs. Even Banks don't look at take back home pay they look at your actual basic pay. Meanwhile the Dato HR was quoted for famously telling every one in townhall "tomorrow you fly Boeing the next day you fly Airbus, Head of pilot department say regulatory forbids it, i say to him then we need to change the regulation! disrupt the authorities! change how airlines should be run!". Delulu in all sense. Even the gulfs were started with experienced crew being the largest in ratio. The airline and healthcare industry does not run with a majority of fresh workers. It seems most of the bosses and investors in the stock market are in a delusional phase on the idea of the so called tech start up dream that is run by fresh college grads can be used on so many industry even down to military industry.
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Anyone knows why MH20/21 was reversed? Usually it’s even numbered flight for northbound and odd for southbound. Did the intern forget that convention? 😂 It was MH20 KUL-CDG and MH21 CDG-KUL last time.
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It was 6-7 x weekly I’m sure - VIE-KUL-SYD, in addition to MH VIE-KUL which was 3-4 weekly
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Unless mas to market kangaroo route aggressively, o&d pax volume on kul-cdg and many EU destinations is unlikely to make daily a350 service profitable.
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I thought it was 3x VIE-KUL-SYD and VIE-KUL-MEL each before splitting to VIE-KUL-SYD and VIE-SIN-MEL 3x each. I maybe wrong tho.
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Boeing strike: Workers overwhelmingly backed the walkout (bbc.com) That prospect just got dimmer I guess 🙄
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Missed this news earlier this month. It was during NZ PM Christopher Luxon's visit to KL. And with the latest Capt Izham's interview, MH is committed to stay in NZ. Perhaps we will see MH increasing its frequency to AKL and establish a new route to CHC. MH would need all the pax numbers they can get for its LHR and soon CDG route. Resumption to BNE is essential too.
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IIRC, VIE-MEL was via SIN. Boy was that a different era…
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Yes, it was OS1 and OS2 VIE-KUL-SYD, one of their flagship route. Not sure about MEL, was it via KUL or SIN ?
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MH will resume BKI-HND. A rather odd and expensive route with 2 weekly flights to a new airport in Tokyo. I am curious if they are just sitting on slots at this time for future KUL-HND. Maybe they should do BKI-ICN to preserve MH 34/35 slots.
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Yes. For airlines that don't have the luxury of idling their planes in Australia for half a day. The ideal schedule would be similar to BA15/16 (LHR-SIN-SYD) with about 9 hours ground time at SYD. I believe Lauda's flight numbers were NG 1/2 and 6/7 (one to SYD and one to MEL).
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It reminds me of Lauda Air we took two decades ago with departure time from KUL at around 5am for SYD, and arrival time from SYD to KUL at around 11pm. It was good price though. Just checked on TK website. The reservation for SYD to IST is open but on SYD to KUL sector it shows the flights are full, at least for Dec to Feb that I have checked.
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Not too sure if there are that many ex-KUL pax taking this TK's fifth freedom route tho. Aeroroutes posted TK's schedule; KUL-SYD leaves KUL at 0740 and SYD-KUL arrives KUL at 0155. And it's eating into KUL's capacity. TK's IST-KUL-SYD is temporary tho - they plan to launch nonstop IST-SYD in 2026.
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Those 1 stop flight, especially if not flown daily, are very costly to operate. And for pax to say MAD, they'd have a one stop service which pretty much will drive down air tickets price (because they'd be competing against the likes of ME4 + TK). And for a traveler going beyond MAD or connecting at KUL, that's a 2-stop service. MAD is too far south and west for EU connections (same case with LHR) but great for LatAm and US connections. I have no idea what the demand between LatAm and KL is like but I doubt it's high. In fact, there are no good OW connecting hubs in Europe for European connections. At its peak, we had 17 weekly flights KUL-AMS. 7x KUL-AMS on MH 772, and then 7x AMS-KUL-CGK on KL 777 and 3x terminator AMS-KUL on KL 777.
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flee replied to flee's topic in General Aviation
Thanks for the excellent detailed summary, Julius. Aren't they expecting more A321Neo deliveries later this year? -
Frankly I don't think finance is an issue as the government can set up SPVs, as in the past, if commercial financing is difficult. Bottom line is MAG business development and fleet planning sucks big time.
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I think the credit ratings and credit terms were not in MH's favour. They were technically bankrupt back then, no financial institutions would give them a low/ lower interest rate for loan. The A330 was on its end of production run, Airbus would have offered them a good deal to take them. The only issue was they didn't firm up the additional 10 options going for the cheap, which would be helpful now due to operation mess. They could have also traded in 31 A330ceo for 40 A330-900neo, instead of just 21 A330ceo.
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Had mas ordered a350/787 instead of a330 a few years ago. Routes expansion to EUR and fleet management could be easier.
