Gavin Andrew David

Oh dear. what a mishap.. where are the details when you need them ...

Bold ........

must have been a hard landing. the gear collapsed!

I'm all for this idea. These days more and more people flying for business purposes are sitting at the back of the bus. Therefore, this is a very good idea Btw, would you think that some airlines actually place all these small children in a certain section of the aircraft ? Somehow I don't come across screaming children on my flights on SQ.

Wow! The coverage has improved drastically in Malaysia!

I believe time will tell. Don't forget the level of involvement CAE has in all training aspects in AirAsia. Believe me, you'd definitely want to be in the MPL program instead of anything else

Cadetship under CAE to get an MPL license

Very interesting choice! The price works well and with the deal to involve some manufacturing in Indonesia, its win-win

the IFE on MH makes me never take them unfortunately

What an amazing turn around

this article is written by someone who writes without doing their homework first.

RWY 22 does not have ILS. VOR approach is used for that runway. Its normal for RWY 22 to be used for arrivals especially towards the latter part of the day. There is a VOR approach for RWY 22 , and there is no problem shooting an approach into an airport without an ILS especially in good weather.

Am bound for Montreal in February but trying to push it so that I can attend the air show. I've trade passes for all days so I haven't decided what are my plans... Everyone else ?

Joint venture with CAE has taken off , hope it's a good and profitable JV for both CAE Malaysia and AirAsia !

AUTOLAND. Nice.

They must have made a very good case against the pilot.

I like this. Interesting service!

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Eddy Leong (pic) has called it a day at Malaysia Airlines (MAS). Sources said he submitted his resignation letter to the new management of the airline yesterday. Leong is believed to be negotiating on the date he could leave because there needed to be a transition period for the handover of duties. Eddy Leong He was chief executive officer of Firefly and chief operating officer of MAS’ short-haul operations. Leong had been given the task to help the new team drive Firefly’s turboprop operations and at the same time operationally lead the new short-haul operations of the national carrier. The reasons for his resignation after nine years with the airline are unclear but it is learnt that he had another offer. He is the fourth top executive of MAS to resign within five months. In July, senior general manger of marketing Datuk Bernard Francis announced his resignation after six years with the airline. On the day the share swap with AirAsia was announced, then managing director Tengku Datuk Azmil Zahruddin resigned. Early this month, chief financial officer Mohd Azha Abdul Jalil threw in the towel after 4½ years with the airline. His last day is the end of next month. – By B.K. SIDHU A better offer ?

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) posted a worse-than-expected net loss of RM477.59mil for the third quarter ended Sept 30, on higher fuel cost, derivative loss and unrealised foreign exchange loss. This compared with a net profit of RM233.23mil for the corresponding period last year, and market's expectations of a less than RM300mil net loss for the third quarter. Operating loss for the national carrier stood at RM156mil for the third quarter compared with an operating profit of RM35mil a year earlier. During the period under review, MAS saw its revenue grew to RM3.57bil compared with RM3.4bil in the year-earlier period. The company attributed its revenue growth to a 3% growth in passenger load on the back of a 6% capacity growth, reduced seat factor by a 2.7 percentage point to 76%; and a 6% improvement in passenger yield. Loss per share stood at 14.29 sen for the third quarter compared with an earnings per share of 6.98 sen for the corresponding period last year. MAS said its total expenditure for the quarter in review rose 10% or RM357mil to RM3.72bil, mainly to the increase in fuel cost by RM396mil, while non-fuel cost was lower by 2% or RM39mil over the same quarter last year. MAS' net loss was inclusive of a derivative loss of RM70mil and unrealised foreign exchange loss of RM195mil, compared with a derivative gain of RM156mil and unrealised foreign exchange gain of RM88mil. For the nine-month period, MAS net loss stood at RM1.25bil, with a loss per share of 37.30 sen, compared with a net profit of RM8.55mil and an earnings per share of 0.27 sen for the nine months to September 2010. Revenue grew to RM10.24bil for the first nine months of 2011, compared with RM9.91bil for the corresponding period last year. In a statement, MAS said the operating environment remained challenging for the remaining three months of 2011. It expected the fourth quarter operational results to be weaker than the current quarter. “Not only is jet fuel price staying high, the worsening economic situation in Europe is being translated into weak forward booking profiles for our long-haul routes,” it said. MAS said its management was undertaking immediate counter-measures to address the situation via heightened revenue management activities and other commercial initiatives. The company said it was embarking on a significant network rationalisation exercise to withdraw structurally weak, loss-making routes and to possibly embark on new higher yielding routes focusing on Asia. “With the adoption of a leaner network, the management shall also be accelerating the return of ageing aircraft and in so doing, improve the fuel efficiency of our fleet,” MAS said. “We expect the full impact of these initiatives to begin bearing fruit in 2012,” it added. MAS shares closed at RM1.36, down four sen yesterday. http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/22/business/9951484&sec=business

not bad in a photoshoot, but I wonder how well it will turn out in the day to day ops

well, the MTB looks horrible and run down and so last decade. I wouldn't mind the hike if we're going to see an upgrade that makes it similar or better than T3 SIN

really weird, but if you look closely on the flare, it looks to me like there was a sudden gust there

bombshell indeed! they seem to be doing particularly well!

5B4 better for short field performance perhaps ?

what a child! i've little or no respect anymore for him