Alif A. F.
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10 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!
But Sarawak is also embarking on other economic enhancing projects at the same time.
The state gov wants to acquire majority stake in Affin Bank.
The state gov invested heavily in energy sectors.
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15 hours ago, KK Lee said:If automation is the solution, MNC need not outsource or set up shops in low cost labour countries. Besides, most local companies lack the market size or scale for automation. Investment need money, if company don't make decent profit, where to find money to invest in new technology.
Japan, Korea, PRC, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, etc are all without fuel subsidy and are more competitive than here. Personally, I believe gomen should remove all form of subsidy.
Everyone engaged with local authority know, it takes many months if not over a year to obtain planning approval that is before building plan approval. For the same period of time in Thailand, would have completed the factory. For reasons, MNC preferred to set up shops in Thailand.
That depends on the government agencies involved in the technical compliance. Local authorities depend a lot on other technical departments for compliance. Six months approval are norm while one year is too long, while three months is considered quick already by Malaysian standards.
And local authorities in Malaysia are governed by four separate laws, if I remember correctly. So, rules and procedures do not quite aligned. In Sabah for example, planning approval still needs to go through state government level, even for projects on small plots of land. This is because none of the district land use master plans (the basis of planning approval) in the state have ever been approved by state level to be used by local authorities.
And technical agencies have differential bureaucracies - most of them work in silo with minimal interaction with each other. Hence, local authorities have no actual power or 'teeth' to implement real changes. And I argue there is no meaningful investment made to make local authorities more competent.
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20% capacity reduction seems significant. What will happen to those affected staff?
8 minutes ago, flee said:Malaysia Airlines completes flight cancellations under network reduction exercise
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The fact that MAG has to make such statement, the problem must be so serious.
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17 hours ago, Robert said:3/7 A350's are AOG and things are messy again. Silence from the MH management and media. Nobody seems to care
9M-MAB - AOG KUL
9M-MAG - MRO
9M-MAH - AOG DOH
LHR and DOH ops are a mess and reports from DOH are that the QR staff are not dealing this with very well.That's like half of MH's long-haul fleet already. Imagine if such ratio happened to SQ, that would instantly paralyse the airline already.
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1 hour ago, JonathanFong said:When you think about it, the way MH is being run is a bit of a microcosm of Malaysia as a whole. Expecting results on a shoestring budget while the higher ups make bank despite not being the most qualified for the job, but I digress. What still surprises me is why MAG management thinks shoring up the accounts is more important than a loss of goodwill, loss of reputation, loss of revenue arising out of the former 2, increased compensation pay out due to disruptions, etc etc etc.
As long as the government saves the day…
Seems like this is the general mindset of government depts in this country, only act when ministers told them to or reactive to current situation but seems no forward sightedness to solve overarching issue.
Their benchmark seems to be who got higher position grade than who - ‘performance belakang cerita’.
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5 hours ago, jahur said:Actually alarms have been sounded repeatedly since last year on the impending manpower and parts shortage. But higher ups just prefer to use up the Minimum equipment list and keep the planes flying until it legally cant. There was also a funny case where the finance folks were arguing with the engineering team about a freaking screw used in an aircraft costing a lot and comparing it to a screw being sold at a hardware shop. You also have a training higher ups who were arguing with instructors on why there is need to send the A330 crew to singapore for the A350 sim training thinking the Airbus A350 A330 dual rating is same same. You also have the revenue department selling flights it may not be able to honor cause money come come more important.
Folks who are literally out of their depth.
How competent are these people in running the airline?
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Apparently Malaysians can enter Guam, visa-free.
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5 hours ago, Arthur W. said:Hmm... If SZB is supposed to target business passengers, why mostly LCCs? Why Firefly not MAS? Why Scoot not SIA?
I wonder how the fares would be like? Maybe about RM100-200 higher than ex-KUL.
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I guess the livery might be back to standard SIA scheme. The media has been quite specific about showing that exact Star Alliance livery...
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I guess sums up about Malaysia - under-radar, under-rated, always in the middle-of...something and something...
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If that translates to even higher passenger service charges (and any other airport related charges) for the sake of higher quality services, then so be it. I've been hearing the calls from outside (i.e. IATA) for MAHB to increase landing fees too. KLIA has the lowest rate in the region, but still no reputable long-haul airlines going to come here.
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On 5/22/2024 at 9:41 PM, jahur said:A lot of crew from the B767 B777 who moved to the A330, B738, A320 mentioned the same thing the ride handling when going into bumps seems to be smoother on the 767 777. Its something likely related to the broad and large wing size and sturdier fat fuselage ratio.
There's also this on the 787 and something similar on the A380 and A350.
What is a gust alleviation system?The older aircrafts and the A320, B737, A330, A340 simple wing design as a result makes the ride a bit more wonky.
Still throwing any aircrafts into moderate to severe turbulence regardless how much inhibitors or alleviation system is installed wont be a nice ride. People would still get tossed into the ceiling if they dont have seat belts fasten.
56 minutes ago, Pall said:No manufacturer will produce such documents on turbulence penetration performance between one model to another. Except for procedures on dealing with severe turbulence during different phases of flight. (I.e climb/descend speed, ignition setting and thrust selection)
This are based on feedback of Pilot's who have flown both types as well as Cabin Crew's experience operating those types day in and day out.
Perhaps you can try speaking to them, they have real world experiences on this as part of their daily routine.
Thanks for the responses.
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Just an idea, why not put seatbelt sign-on text announcement on IFE screens so all passengers can see. Say, if passengers watch movies, the announcement text can be placed on the screen edge from time to time...slightly annoying but it keeps them always reminded. Also, can add weather or cloud layer in navigation maps too so passengers get rough idea how the weather like surrounding the plane they are in 😅...
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3 hours ago, jahur said:Interesting document for any readers to download this one more on mountain waves which can cause something intense moderate turbulence.
Inside The Hidden Dangers of Mountain Wave Turbulence
Actual aircraft killed by mount fuji without even crashing into the terrain.
Mountain wave is a common phenomenon in Crocker range region of Sabah. Sometimes, lenticular aka 'UFO' clouds can be seen at early mornings. Used to frequent flew between KK and Sandakan. Pilots would sometimes take long detour around Kudat/Kota Marudu area to avoid those huge thunderstorm clouds hanging above Mt Kinabalu/Crocker range region at late afternoons.
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5 hours ago, Pall said:Lucky its a 77W. God knows how bad things might have turned out if its A359 or A388. 777s generally withstand turbulence much better than their European widebody competitors.
Can you point the technical evidence suggesting so?
I always think wide bodied planes in general can withstand turbulence better than small regionals (like ATRs for example) ...
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7 hours ago, jahur said:Indonesian Government Revokes Status of 17 International Airports, What’s Up?
Indonesia downgraded the following airport to domestic that our local airlines are currently plying or planning to fly in.
- Makkasar(mag target, airasia)
- Manado(airasia) [indon DGCA in process of negotiation with few foreign carriers before downgrading]
- Tarakan(ex maswings)
- Pontianak(airasia)
- Bandung(malaysia airlines)
From what i can see once capital relocation has occurred its quite likely international travelers are restricted to just Kalimantan/Manado.
Oh, wait I don't think UPG is downgraded as domestic. I read the article and UPG is still maintained as international. The way the article was written is confusing (for me) at least.
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39 minutes ago, flee said:I think it is about time that technology used in car seat belt design is used on aircraft. We keep hearing how expensive the seats are to the airlines. As such, fitting inertia reel seatbelts and a reminder system for pax to fasten seat belts should not be cost prohibitive.
It is more costly to airlines when you got smashed overhead panels, bodily injuries and worse - death.
And also, wouldn't be too far off to say that climate change has made flying more turbulent?
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1 hour ago, jahur said:Indonesian Government Revokes Status of 17 International Airports, What’s Up?
Indonesia downgraded the following airport to domestic that our local airlines are currently plying or planning to fly in.
- Makkasar(mag target, airasia)
- Manado(airasia) [indon DGCA in process of negotiation with few foreign carriers before downgrading]
- Tarakan(ex maswings)
- Pontianak(airasia)
- Bandung(malaysia airlines)
From what i can see once capital relocation has occurred its quite likely international travelers are restricted to just Kalimantan/Manado.
I think UPG (Makassar) has the potential to be eastern Indonesia's international aviation hub. Went pass through the airport in 2013 and it was already an important hub for the region.
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7 minutes ago, jahur said:Clear air turbulence. Unseen on weather radar 99% of the time, You then get a rough wave get something that jolts u up like crazy and then throws u down quite after usually even causes the autopilot to disengage. Again so many people are not wearing their seatbelt. This is something you should always wear regardless how blue sky clear it is outside.
Since this incident happened about 2 hours from Singapore, meal service could have commenced then and most passengers waking up from slumber, and some lined up for lavatories. But then could also be some pax not wearing seatbelts while in their seats.
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8 hours ago, Pall said:They are more familiar with MASwings compared to FY.
Could have just repaint those jets in MASWings colour scheme 😁...
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3 hours ago, jahur said:DXB is more of the city not financing planning proper drainage system for a torrential rain that originally happens once every few years. But same time their gov is doing 180ish annual cloud seeding to secure water and agriculture stability. So even 45minutes of torrential rain is enough to put the city into a halt now made worse with unintended result potentially from cloud seeding.
Also, I was shocked after knowing that until few years ago Dubai didn't have extensive sewerage pipelines. Meaning that all those human wastes were transported by trucks to designated treatment plants. There was a video that was showing sewage trucks lined up the highway in the outskirts of Dubai. It was claimed that Burj Khalifa didn't even have the sewerage pipeline installed.
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Can't be that MSA split alone that many years ago cause recent MH's predicament - his statement seems like a lame excuse.
A lot of things happened since then (especially involving decision making parts) that have turn MH into what it is today.
If SQ isn't managed well, it would not be as successful as it is today.
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I believe Pan Borneo highway Sarawak section is close to completion. Now Sarawak gov. is constructing coastal highway with several bridges under construction. Seems progressing well.
Heavy industries already investing in Sarawak especially in OGE sector.