Craig
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Seems like MH operated 2 additional NRT services this week timed for great onward connection to US/Canada. And rather odd they used a 2 digit number instead of MH 7xxx series. Flight operated 1JUN and will operate again 3JUN.
MH48 KUL0600 - 1410NRT 333
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More like a question than an answer. Indian carriers can't seem to make Malaysia work. Perhaps we will see Indigo expand more here given that they signed codeshare/partnership to be implemented sometime in the future for beyond connections. 6E has since moved to T1 at KUL for easier connections.
QuoteIndian carriers have tried connecting Kuala Lumpur to their network multiple times. Back in the mid 2000s, Air Indiaoperated to Kuala Lumpur twice a week with the A310. These were supplemented with flights from Chennai by Indian Airlines and Jet Airways. The connectivity at the start of 2000 comprised just 14 flights, nine by Malaysia Airlines and five by Air India & Indian Airlines combined. Jet Airways and Air Sahara joined in when they got approval to fly international in 2005. The competition from the Malaysian side became intense after the entry of AirAsia in 2009. Gradually airlines from India started pulling out, with Air India, Indian Airlines, Air Sahara, Jet Airways all vacating the route while the last one Air India Express vacating the market in 2016. IndiGo entered in 2019, but has kept a token presence with a single daily to Kuala Lumpur from Chennai, long moving out of Delhi and Bengaluru markets.
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According to Singapore's MOT preliminary report, it appears that SQ 321 was likely flying over an area of developing convective activity (not too sure if that still counts as clear air turbulence). Media however are reporting that it's "rapid change in gravitational forces" which I guess it more click baity.
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8 hours ago, Robert said:what caused it? Cant remember at all
I don't think the actual reason was ever disclosed. It was just rumors here and there, but it was QF who sponsored MH into Oneworld (fact). And the rest are just hearsay. QF was planning to set up a more premium/full service carrier based in KUL called RedQ (IIRC) during MH-QF OW annoucement. There was some bad blood between MH and QF when MH was in the process of becoming a Oneworld member and it remained till today. There were some rumors that MH (or Malaysian government) wants QF to move their SIN hub to KUL (IIRC, including moving one of the LHR flights via KUL). QF obviously objected to that simply because the demand from SIN is much higher and garners higher yield than MY market. There were a lot more transfer opportunities from SIN (QF also transfer non-OW pax from AF, KL etc from SIN.).
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7 hours ago, KK Lee said:Then why BA and QF exited KUL?
QF left at the height of the AFC in the late 90s. Till this day, they have a lot of rights to Malaysia and beyond that aren't used. Doesn't mean Malaysia is not allowing competition. BA left and returned, left again and will return. There's some cooperation between BA and MH for beyond connections at both ends, so it makes sense for BA to return. BKK will be resumed from LGW, generally a much lower yielding airport. There's a tiff between QF and MH. IF they can get back in bed together we will see QF back at KUL. MY-AU is not a small market (excluding beyond connections).
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On 5/27/2024 at 2:32 PM, Alif A. F. said:I guess the livery might be back to standard SIA scheme. The media has been quite specific about showing that exact Star Alliance livery...
They might be secretly happy it's the Star Alliance theme. At least the media isn't showing their Golden Goose everywhere.
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9 hours ago, KK Lee said:In the contrary; when Asian tigers were prospering in the 1990's, a number of foreign airlines wanted to serve or increase frequency to KUL but was denied to protect mas or mas wasn't interested to reciprocate. When mas was under mr 019 control, besides a few 'south south cooperation' routes instructed by then pm, mas management had literally freehand.
Can you show some examples of this? Because AFAIK, BA had a daily LHR-KUL-PER at one point and LHR-KUL-SYD 3-4x weekly at one point. BA had free reign at KUL along with QF. JL/QF even had the exclusive rights to sell KUL-SIN-KUL last time. Lots of other European carriers were given fifth freedom, either to BKK or CGK.
33 minutes ago, kandiah k said:I guess the consequences has prevailed now that SIN has stepped in to provide that extra slots and what not. This was the motto of their leader then, SIN should be priority, even if it was at the expense of protecting SQ (or not)
Lol. SG not protecting SQ. They may not have protectionist policies by law, but they have other means to protect SQ. Ever wonder why 3K is in T4 at SIN or there is no Air Asia Singapore? I don't know if CX moved to T4 by choice. KUL previously had something similar too. SQ wasn't able to renovate their KF lounge at KUL because MAHB will not give them the permit to do so. SG just knows how to market themselves well. Just need to scratch a bit and all will be revealed
7 minutes ago, JuliusWong said:The rot started with Dr. M, like him or loathe him, one cannot deny he effing screwed up many things, especially when it comes to aviation.
Everything except cars/roads. He was the one who made Malaysia a car-centric country. Even in his second term by canceling a lot of public transit services.
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On 5/28/2024 at 8:58 AM, Pall said:I believe this is a consolidated travel agency scheduled charter flight. Usually services like this operate on a different yield strategy. Having 1-2 rows blocked does not affect P&L.
That makes sense. It's not open for sale on the GDS. But what about the 737 that will be in KUL? Are they doing 3x flights a week each way between PEN/BKI and KUL?
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On 5/24/2024 at 5:18 PM, Robert said:FIREFLY ADDS KUALA LUMPUR – NANJING SERVICE FROM LATE-JUNE 2024
Published at 0800GMT 24MAY24Firefly from late-June 2024 plans to add new service to Mainland China, based on schedule listing that lists Kuala Lumpur – Nanjing route, on board Boeing 737-800 aircraft. From 20JUN24, service operates 2 weekly, increasing to 3 weekly from 29JUN24.
More importantly, where else do they plan to fly from KUL? Can't see them just basing a 737 here. And maybe at SZB? So they'll have 4 bases (PEN, SZB, KUL, BKI) with <10 planes? lol.
On 5/24/2024 at 6:34 PM, jahur said:Neither here neither there. Plug in plug out. Rinse repeat 🤣
Is FY really going to overnight their crew there for 2-3 nights lol. Doesn't sound very FY to me. I am sure all hell will break loose if they do it as a turnaround. Deadheading will eat up quite a bit of real estate.
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8 hours ago, Alif A. F. said:I guess sums up about Malaysia - under-radar, under-rated, always in the middle-of...something and something...
What about under performing ministers / Tourism Malaysia staff?
12 hours ago, flee said:With Shell pulling out of Malaysia, even KL flights may be affected. The government should take note that their engagement with foreign countries will affect air services into Malaysia too. It is not just up to MAHB or the airlines.
I wasn't aware that Shell was flying people who work at petrol stations between Amsterdam and KL. AFAIK, Shell only wants to sell their retail business. You may not see ExxonMobil on the roads anymore but they are still actively hiring in Malaysia.
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Seems like 19th May MH318 to PKX returned to base close to Hanoi. Flight path showed that they circle Hanoi just before the Chinese border and the head out to South China Sea trying to go around Hainan Island before returning back to KUL.
Was there a problem with CN airspace or did the aircraft had a problem (seems a bit unlikely given the path but I am not sure).
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That means they have done away with the registration for first time e-gate visitors. Anyone holding a passport those 46 countries/territories can just use e-gates without pre-registration.
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11 hours ago, JuliusWong said:Immigration website says otherwise though.....
Malaysia government is known for updating their websites
We even listed Yugoslavia as a country on MFA's website not too long ago and we copied and pasted Singapore's equivalent of visitor arrival card.
10 hours ago, Kee Hooi Yen said:We have our fingerprint registered with Malaysian immigration during our previous visits many years ago. Each time during our entry to Malaysia, we are asked to verify our fingerprint at the immigration counter.
This is the first time we could head directly to the e-gate and waltz through without verifying our fingerprint.
So previously you had to go to an immigration officer so that they can inspect you on arrival in person. But this time (I assume this is your first visit to Malaysia this year?), you waltzed through the e-gates without having to register with an officer at the desk to the right of the e-gates?
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10 hours ago, Kee Hooi Yen said:Last I understand the foreigners need to go through the immigration counter on their first entry for their finger prints to be collected by the officer.
Previously yes but from what I read, they have abolished the fingerprint or at least registration as a first time user recently. First time users can just waltz through the e-gates now and I was curious if that was the case with you.
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21 minutes ago, Kee Hooi Yen said:
I am not sure if I have missed it but I don’t recall I have seen any sign mentioning the passport holders of the 10 countries that could use the e-gates.You have to look for the yellow color A4 sized paper maybe at about waist level as you approach the immigration counters. And you have to look for the word "Australia" printed maybe in font size 18 along with the 9 other countries lol. They actually have a 32" TV on top of the health check area asking passport holders of those 10 countries to use the e-gates. But most are unaware of it.
Did you have to register for it manually at the counter (if it's your first time) or did you just fill in your MDAC and head straight to the e-gates? From what I gather, they have done away with the registration for first time users and passengers can just use the e-gates once they have filled in their MDAC forms.
But Malaysia being Malaysia, they haven't learned to be concise yet. If you've ever driven on a highway in Malaysia, try looking at those electronic advisory boards. They expect you to read a novel when you are driving through at 100 km/h.
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2 hours ago, Robert said:Thats when they say that they need a new bigger airport in a new location
Maybe we'll build one in Johor and have HSR to both SG and KL 🤣. KLIA land bank is huge. Just that a lot of it is palm oil plantation.
I am curious if there's a mirror image of current T1, wouldn't the rail service be affected as well? The current line is at grade and they can't really do much around there (unless they plan to reconstruct the line and demolish Aeropolis which is highly unlikely). If they were to build a T3, it'd need to be west of current T2 or east of T1. Assuming T3 is for full service carriers, it'd be a pain for transfer then.
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3 hours ago, Robert said:was also playing around with google earth and flipped a copy T1 to show what the it could look like if they didn't scrap the original plan. Can see from this how the road encroaches.
The could probably redo some of the plan. The development rights for the Aeropolis by MAHB to KLIA Aeropolis (a subsidiary of MAHB, somewhat common to set up a subsidiary for tax and liability reasons) will last until 2121. So the mirror image will not be possible. I am curious what happens when 50MPPA is reached when both satellites are full. Maybe Terminal 3 will be to the west of current T2.
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BKK e-gates was already functional for certain foreigners. Malaysians and Singaporeans are eligible for BKK exit e-gates. The need staggered e-gates at KUL soon. The area is still quite small for immigration.
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1 hour ago, Robert said:Earlier this month it seems that the PM rebuked the Immigration Dept over tourist entry congestion. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2024/05/02/pm-rebukes-immigration-dept-over-tourist-entry-congestion
Yesterday it was announced that 36 more construes can use the auto-gates from 1st June https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2024/05/17/more-can-use-autogate
He and Johor MB can rebuke all they want. It's not going to change things.
Hopefully they'll print 2 more A4 sized sheets with these 36 new countries included 🤣 I am curious if they'll put a EU flag or those 27 individual states individually. And if they put a EU flag, will Germany's flag be removed from the initial A4 paper. That seems like they need to print 3 pages instead of 2. Macau seems to be the stepchild in Malaysia's OneChina policy 🤣
On a more serious note, I hope they will build more e-gates. The current ones are OK but at peak time, the queues can be quite long. I don't think it'll be sufficient when these 36 countries become eligible for e-gates.
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6 hours ago, kandiah k said:So I suppose MTB can handle 50 million ppa if Satellite B is built? Or do they have plans to also expand the MTB to accommodate more capacity in view of Satellite B?
Each satellite can accommodate 20 MPPA. But the problem doesn't just end there. The bottle neck will be outbound and inbound immigration (as if both aren't bad enough on some days). That area is permanent. They could do what BKK did and doubling the counters by making one front and one to the back. I think there were plans for this at KUL now.
However, immigration will still be a bottle neck at BKK because they just opened a new satellite concourse, the S gates. Whilst this will alleviate gate availability and floor space, it wouldn't alleviate the immigration bottleneck. Because everyone from satellite will be using the same immigration counters. They needed a new terminal but they got a new concourse instead. Much akin to KUL T1 and T2 sharing one huge immigration hall.
1 hour ago, Pall said:MTB is facing shortage of parking bays especially during the morning wave. In some cases change over times between departing and arriving aircraft are as low as 5mins. Due to the nature of airline operations and inefficacies of KUL ATC (poorest ATC management) in the region, unnecessary delays are caused due to this. It's not going to get any better with OD and MH adding more capacity from here. Perhaps open bay operations are a short term fix, but our climate is not welcoming anyways. Rains and heatwave will not be conducive for passengers. KLIA users are paying the price for the lack of planning by MAHB.
It's quite nice for a MH737 to park at an even numbered C gates in the morning lol. I thought I read somewhere that they upgraded their ATC about 2-3 years back and it's one of the better ones in the world? There are more airways available than before. It's not common to see a plane circling in the air compared to before unless there's weather.
Malaysia rain is not just a rainstorm but more often than not, it's a thunderstorm. No one is allowed outside a building during a thunderstorm (I hope this applies in Malaysia). Passengers can't disembark or board a plane parked remotely during a thunderstorm, neither can ramp agents be outside during a thunderstorm. But yet Tony wanted all remote gates for his terminal lol.
Lack of planning or lack of funding? Maybe that's why they are selling their stake to raise funds
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6 hours ago, kandiah k said:Yeah I guess so but MH could code share heavily on JL for their flights out of HND. I recently flew on a flight from KUL-JFK on JL via SIN and HND. Oh well maybe yields, slots or more could be the main reason(s) why we do not have a KUL-HND-KUL on the Oneworld carriers. Star Alliance works well on that route.
Problem is MH doesn't fly to HND anymore. They said they are planning to return to HND but who knows. A daytime slot would work well but that 22:00 arrival is not the best. Any delays and passengers will risk paying an expensive cab fare to the city. And without daytime slot to HND, most pax will have to overnight at Tokyo anyway for US bound pax on JL.
If you look at JL's schedule, they aren't really keen on US/Canada bound pax. All pax will have to overnight at NRT on their return. JL is happy to serve just the JP-MY + beyond traffic at KUL. And MY-US market is tiny. More than half the plane will be connecting pax if they serve say KUL-LAX nonstop (the largest market US-MY market).
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59 minutes ago, kandiah k said:Wonder why MH or JL don't utilize the KUL-HND-JFK/Beyond? Any connection now on MH or JL requires a change of airport from NRT to HND and beyond vice versa. Yields? Slots?
They don't even have daytime slots lol. And I don't believe Japan has granted foreign carriers 5th freedom at HND.
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39 minutes ago, Robert said:Im curious how close they are to needing an additional satellite terminal.
Very lol. When they built T1 as it is, it was meant to handle 25 MPPA. I think they tweaked it a little and it can handle. T1 handled 7.224 MM pax from January to March this year. Assuming the same number of pax travel for the rest of the quarters, it will hit around 28-29 MPPA.
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3 hours ago, JuliusWong said:I would like to ask, has Malaysian carriers exhausted our allocation for Japan, especially to Narita/ Haneda and Osaka? Tried reading MAVCOM document but got confused.
Semi-open skies. Unlimited 3rd and 4th freedom traffic between any points in Malaysia and Japan. Only exception is HND where Malaysia based carrier are given 14 weekly night slots (7 of those slots must be used to code-share with a Japanese carrier; night slots are 22:00-06:00). Malaysia carriers are also limited to 4x weekly 5th freedom flights beyond NRT to SFO, LAX, and ICN (hence MH's former, MH92/93, KUL-NRT-LAX operated only 3-4x a week whilst the rest was via TPE). Also why Air Asia X operated to HNL via KIX.
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The PEN-KUL-PEN is timed for the KUL-NKG turnaround.
FY2954 PEN1600 - 1700KUL 738 246
FY2955 KUL0700 - 0800PEN 738 357
FY3842 KUL1740 – 2315NKG 738 246
FY3843 NKG0015 – 0545KUL 738 357
Good luck turning around FY2954 to FY 3842 in 40 minutes. I have a feeling FY 3842/3843 will be delayed quite often. I assume crew will operate FY2954-3842. Not sure if they'd deadhead back or stay in Nanjing for 2-3 nights.