Craig

Is anything at KUL T1 not on the brink of collapse? 😬 I don't know what's going on underneath the floor but the baggage system looks fine to me as an end user. Bags are usually out before I get to the belt if I am parked in the contact pier. I think most people just want to avoid schlepping up and down those stairs only to take a city bus to get to the satellite terminal.

0720 departure from HAN.Ouch. VN pulled out of HAN-KUL, so I guess there's room for VJ now.

I got the suspension year from a news article is I take it for what it's worth. I do recall that MH has not served CCU for a very long time. Now we are dumping China for India. But MH should consider an interior city like Chengdu (or if you work at MAHB, Tianfu. Who lists airport as the city on the FIDS?!).

MH will resume Kolkata, India beginning 2 December 2024 with 5 weekly 73H flights (only 3 are loaded for sale so far). MH last served CCU in 2015 and CCU will be the 10th city in India for MH. MH184 KUL2135 - 2310CCU x34 73H MH185 CCU0010 - 0645KUL x45 73H

We have a lot of new investments from US tech giants recently, and just yesterday, Oracle announced they will invest $6.5B USD in Malaysia. However, I am not sure if those will lead to corporate travel between US and Malaysia. If it does, maybe we will see UA at KUL. We just need a daytime HND slot. It's ridiculous that we didn't get any where as other Southeast Asian countries has one other than the lesser countries. With current MH/JL schedule, there are almost no JP domestic connections available to Malaysia (or at least an overnight in Tokyo with NH). KIX/NRT has very little domestic connections available (unless you do a self transfer).

You realize those numbers doesn't include potential beyond connections on MH or people who currently self connect at say SIN/BKK/LHR/AMS etc. And most importantly, it doesn't include potential untapped market passengers who want a nonstop service? It's Paris, France, not Paris, Texas. People will want to visit Paris, France. The same can be said for people living in France/Belgium wanting to visit Malaisie.

Opps. My apologies. The article mentioned LGK but I typed KUL.

Aviation week did a route analysis for MH's upcoming KUL-CDG flight. I think there's a typo in there as MH will operate from CDG T2C instead of T1. The O&D demand between KUL and CDG in 2023 was 93,407 (I suspect 2024's number will be higher than 2023) and 2023's demand was only 5.7% lower compared to that of 2019. So we are looking at around 256 pax traveling between both cities each day in 2023. Looks like the prospect of this flight is quite good with the 286-seater A359 with beyond connections available on MH at KUL.

An article from the Dayak Daily mentioned that there'll be 20 new routes/flights to/from Malaysia has been introduced or will be introduced till end of 2024. A few of them are announced like BA to KUL, Scoot to SZB/MKZ, MH to DAD, AK BKI to SGN/MDC etc. Some of the rather out-of-nowhere routes seems to be the ones introduced or will be introduced by China Eastern (MU) including KUL-Wenzhou (WNZ), Xian (XIY), Yuncheng (YCU), Changchun (CGQ), and Harbin (HRB). Other than XIY and HRB, I had to look up where those cities are. And another airline (no mention if it's Malaysian or Chinese) plans to introduce TFU/KMG-KUL next year. And I must have forgotten about this, LOT has charter operations from WAW to KUL this winter?!

Well maybe they'll be Royal Brunei but with Doha Hamad Airport as their inspiration.

UA already has a daily 77W SFO-MNL for almost a year now and I don't think there are a lot of Filipinos in Florida.

I read that magazine and just thought it was just a skyline typo or something, but they are very good at giving hints at future flights. Having that said, I think it'd be very far fetched for UA to start a non-stop US-KUL flight. I can't see that happening unless one of the major corporations signed a contract with UA for nonstop flights to KUL. US-MY traffic is pretty thin. I don't believe this is accurate. No flights were loaded for sale.

There are 972 seats available to CCU. That should be 5-6 weekly flights for MH 73H (if they do 5 weekly, they can sell 100% of those seats but 6 weekly flights would be slightly restricted with about 12 seats that can’t be sold per flight).

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.

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.