Craig
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2 hours ago, KK Lee said:Provided everyone travel on MH.
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.
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39 minutes ago, Adam Lawrence said:The LOT charter flights should be to Langkawi instead of KUL
Opps. My apologies. The article mentioned LGK but I typed KUL.
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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.
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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?!
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13 hours ago, Izanee said:The closest they can even try to be would be royal Brunei.
Emirates is just aiming too high. Kuching is lovely but does come close to the financial, economic and tourism clout that Dubai has!
Well maybe they'll be Royal Brunei but with Doha Hamad Airport as their inspiration.
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10 minutes ago, JuliusWong said:If UA is really keen in flying into more SEA destinations from SFO/ LAX, MNL would be higher in the priority list, given the Filipino diaspora in Sunshine state, BKK may have a shot again, but not KUL since UA can channel its pax via NH at NRT and SQ via SIN.
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.
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13 hours ago, Robert said:Did United Airlines Just Drop A Hint That It Will Start Flying To Kuala Lumpur?
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.
6 hours ago, Adam Lawrence said:I know UA will be flying to BKK in Jan 2025: https://www.mightytravels.com/2024/08/united-airlines-expands-routes-to-southeast-asia-new-direct-flights-from-chicago-to-bangkok-starting-january-2025/
I don't believe this is accurate. No flights were loaded for sale.
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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).
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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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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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3 hours ago, Chris Tan said:IIRC, VIE-MEL was via SIN. Boy was that a different era…
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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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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2 hours ago, Kee Hooi Yen said: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.
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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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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7 hours ago, Izanee said:I think KUL-MXP-MAD would be a nice one to fly, or maybe KUL-FRA-MAD (Germany is probably our biggest trade partner in Europe, and MAD is the home to OW partner, IB). That will kill 2 birds with one stone and regain their visibility in Europe.
makes sense to leave AMS to partner KLM - shame that KL809 is still operated by 789 rather than 77W like previously. Perhaps with MH expansion in Australia, there will be space for larger aircraft on the AMS route. I know KLM over the years have stopped completely relying on KUL for onward feed and has added codeshare connections via SIN/CAN.
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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In an exclusive interview with Australia's Executive Traveller, Capt. Izham mentioned that MH intends to increase SYD/MEL to 3x daily (back to their peak SYD/MEL flights a few years back) and double daily to AKL to "support the new daily A350 flights to CDG". Their Aussie flight loads are in the 90s! No surprises on the A339 routes rollout: MEL, AKL, NRT, DOH with CAN slotted in unofficially.
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MAVCOM latest ATR traffic bulletin indicates that OD applied for 4x KUL-AKL to begin December?! Since Mavcom didn't indicate any stop in between, I'd have to assume they are using their A330s on this route. That's ambitious and also shooting destinations with a dart?
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Latest MAVCOM ATR application indicates that SKS applied for SZB-SIN/JHB/PEN/KCH 7 weekly flights each 🧐
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4 hours ago, jani said:I would have delayed the announcement, but I guess they were chasing MATTA Fair. Not sure if entirely smart decision, as many of my friends and relatives seem to just ask "Eh big discounts for what if flight is cancelled later?"
Under normal circumstances, now is the best time to reveal Summer 2025 expansion. Gives them about 6 months lead time to promote the new route. They can't delay it much longer. Every week they delay, is every week they lose potential revenue. If there are any new long haul airlines to KUL, we should hear about it within the next 1-2 months depending on when the airline plan to fly to KUL. Remember BNE was snuck into the schedule about a month before being pulled out.
Speaking of BNE, MAVCOM latest limited air traffic rights spreadsheet (current as of 13 August 2024) indicates that MH is still holding on to their 727 seats. Still no idea where they'd get the 294 seater A333 from and an airline relinquished 566 seats back into the pool. If MH grabs those, they'd have more than sufficient seats for 4x A330 weekly services.
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11 hours ago, KK Lee said:For companies to pay high salary, companies need to make good profit first[...] After considering of low productivity, wages in this country is expensive.
You sound like one of those Chinaman bosses another poster was talking about.
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2 minutes ago, jahur said:That could be Da Nang's french like village though.
Could be. But I remember seeing something along the lines of new destination announcement for 2025 at Matta Fair 2024.
Don’t know if now is a good time for a new route announcement because a lot of people were affected by the recent cancelations. But from an airline’s perspective, now is the time to announce Summer 2025 expansion. Gives them time to promote it and also for forward booking.
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It seems like MH released a hint for their new European route set to launch in 2025 on their social before deleting it. According to the teaser, it should be announced at Matta fair this week. Or maybe they are canceling that route now due to the mess they are in. MH intern is back!
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2 hours ago, JuliusWong said:MH now turns off comment on their advertisement. Aiyo!~~~~~~
This is probably to curtail dumb people who keep putting their PNR and real name on social media. Anyone or organization who has nefarious intents can easily access the booking and obtain a lot of information about the passenger. I've seen quite a few people pretending to be from MH and trying to "assist" stranded passengers.
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1 hour ago, KK Lee said:Unless don't have choice, why want to take risk with mana ada system.
Schedule, price, alliance for miles and status, halal meals, familiarity, nonstop flight.
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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).