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S V Choong

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  1. The "subsidiary" of Malaysian Airline System Berhad? What might that be? Firefly or MASWings? Thought it has been renamed to Malaysia Airlines Bernard?
  2. Except that they are not going ahead with the 788 purchase anymore...
  3. Good move! Every other airlines should follow suit.... but then again... which other airline would force their pax in that manner?
  4. Most mainland Chinese prefer to fly direct these days as mainland airlines are reaching out for more destinations. Either that they will fly Korean Air or Asiana, or even ANA and JAL. Many of them are becoming more and more uncomfortable of the unnecessary cocky attitudes of Hong Kongers too, so they are staying away. Many Hong Kongers are flying Chinese airlines too as the fares are sometimes unbeatable. Return fare to US starts from HKD 3600 including tax even though if it means laying over at Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai for a day or so. Return fare offered by China Eastern or Shanghai Airlines to Japan have been pretty unbeatable too compared to CX's fare. I, for one, prefers not to fly with CX/ KA unless it is business trips. For personal trips, I always opt for airlines other than CX/KA.
  5. Wake turbulence while at holding pattern just outside of HKG/ VHHH, another aircraft was flying too close above. http://www.airlineratings.com/news/1167/qantas-747-was-struck-by-wake-turbulence- Aircraft involved in the incident was VH-OEF "Sydney", a GE powered Boeing 747-400ER, in One World livery, which I caught last year too from MEL to HKG as QF29.
  6. http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/15-injured-in-serious-stall-alert-incident-on-qantas-flight-from-melbourne-to-hong-kong/news-story/395bccd81f1e3729ee176cbe8fea2a78
  7. Airlines and authorities do have the rights to remove people from flights. You would have agreed to it too on the conditions of carriage too.
  8. Yep, Delta is definitely better and consist of more interesting fleet types than UA, even if it means they will Deliver Every Luggage To Atlanta (DELTA). It is funny that in China, people think this is a racist case and now mainland Chinese are boycotting UA... how stupid! Even in HK... the news headlines read "Chinese American was dragged off from the plane by force - why did they pick a Chinese person?". Many in this part of Asia are quick to judge this case to be racial discrimination and are often reminded how racist western countries can be towards Chinese............. Yep, Delta is definitely better and consist of more interesting fleet types than UA, even if it means they will Deliver Every Luggage To Atlanta (DELTA). It is funny that in China, people think this is a racist case and now mainland Chinese are boycotting UA... how stupid! Even in HK... the news headlines read "Chinese American was dragged off from the plane by force - why did they pick a Chinese person?". Many in this part of Asia are quick to judge this case to be racial discrimination and are often reminded how racist western countries can be towards Chinese.............
  9. Wonder if he will remained at CX. I watched one of his speech and his English was the thick Hong Kong (high tone and low tone fluctuating) accent, sometimes very hard to understand. I fell asleep half way through his speech lol
  10. I thought they pick people on the fare they paid... for example... heavily discounted economy class fare, rather than randomly select people and bump them off. I certainly would not be happy to be bumped off the plane if I am paying higher grade Economy class fare if I know there are passengers who paid cheaper fare than I did. The victim in this case is an East Asian looking person, could have been Chinese, Mongolian, Korean or Japanese. That could easily escalate or be sensationalised to be another case of racial discrimination.... I have been to the US just last month... and I don't feel it to be any different from my previous trip years ago. So... it could be media spin-doctoring... or demonising Trump.
  11. Depends on the perspective, doesn't it? Malaysian girls are ho**y for some. Local knives aren't sharp enough....
  12. Those BA has a handful of them for operating into LCY London City Airport? IIRC... Qatar has some A318 for pure business class config to Europe?
  13. Very cool photos there Francis!! and Chaity, of course!
  14. I remembered in the 90s TG used 737-400 for the BKK-BKI route?
  15. A330s are 8 abreast and 787 has 9 abreast in standard format, IIRC! I am saying I would prefer MH to get the B787!
  16. I made a quick transit at ICN on both ways during my tecent trip to the US two weeks ago, it seems that Incheon Airport will open a new terminal and a satellite terminal (called Terminal 2) very soon. Construction is almost finished and looked to be ready by end of the year. Current terminal will be renamed as Terminal 1. ICN already has three active runways. They are building runway 4 to the west and another runway, runway 5, to the east of the cargo terminal will be built and become a dedicated runway for freighters. http://kojects.com/2012/02/26/incheon-international-airport-to-open-second-terminal-by-2018/
  17. Updating: Malaysia Airlines (MH): F27, F50, B732, B734, B735, B738, B744, B77E, A300B4-200, A332, A333, DC-10-30 Air Asia (AK) - B733, A320 Singapore Airlines (SQ): A312, A313, B742, B743, B77E, B77W, B744 (-412, -4H6), B773, A388, A333 Cathay Pacific Airways (CX): A343, B773, A333, B744 (-412), B77W Dragonair (KA): A320, A321, A333 Korean Air (KE): A333, B743, B744, B77W, A388, B748 Philippine Airlines (PR): A300B4-200 Shenzhen Airlines (ZH): B733, B738 Xiamen Airlines (MF): B737-700, B738 Shanghai Airlines (FM): B738, B752 Qantas Airways (QF): B733, B734, B763, B744, B747-438ER, B712, A332 Qantas New Zealand (QF): BAe146 Air New Zealand (NZ): B732, B733, B762, B763, A320, ATR72-500 Ansett New Zealand (AN): BAe146 Pelita Air, Indonesia (6D): Hercules C-130 Freedomair, NZ (SJ): B733 Origin Pacific Airways, NZ (QO): DHC-8 Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF): B752, Hercules C-130 Jetstar.com (JQ): A320, A321 LAN Chile (LA): A343 Polynesian Blue (DJ): B738 Pacific Blue (DJ): B738 China Southern Airlines (CZ): ERJ145 Japan Airlines (JL): B763 Emirates Airlines (EK): A345, A388, B77W Air Pacific (FJ): B763 V Australia (VA): B77W VirginBlue (DJ): E170 Virgin Australia: B738 Tiger Airways Australia (TT): A320-200 Silk Air (MI): A320-100 China Eastern (MU): B733, A300B4-600R Royal Brunei (BI): B77E, A319 Thai Airways (TG): B772, B744, A388, B77W, A346, A333 Hainan Airlines (HU): A346, B788 Vietnam Airlines (VN): A321 Air France (AF): B77W Garuda Indonesia (GA): B77W KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL): B77E Air China: B744, A321 Hong Kong Airlines: A320 Types: Airbus: A300B4-203, A300-600R, A310-200, A310-300,A319-100, A320-100, A320-200, A321-200, A330-200, A330-300, A340-300, A340-500, A340-600, A380-800 ATR: ATR-72-500 British Aerospace: BAe-146 Boeing: B717-200, B737-200, B737-300, B737-400, B737-500, B737-700, B737-800, B747-200, B747-300, B747-400, B747-400ER, B747-8i, B757-200, B767-200, B767-300, B777-200, B777-200ER, B777-300, B777-300ER, B787-8 DeHavilland Canada: DHC-8-300 Embraer: ERJ-145, ERJ-170 Fokker: F-27 Friendship, F-50 Lockheed: C-130 Hercules McDonnell Douglas: DC-10-30 Quote
  18. So officially it will be Batik Air Malaysia and not Malindo Air right?
  19. Full Wau please, not the cropped version Would be the 777-300ER.... and 787 over A330neo please!!
  20. The population vs. cost simply do not justify the viability of a bridge. Labuan is not Penang, the latter has a pretty important IT industry and substantial population size. On top of that, Malaysia is not China, where massive infrastructure projects are used to justify GDP....
  21. I believe the 757-200 landed in SDK is not a surprise. The 757 has a pair of powerful engines which is prefect for short runways. The 757 has indeed landed at the previous TWU airport which I believe the runway was 5500 ft, it was the Boeing 757-200 demonstrator (N757A).
  22. Thanks Jahur. Was only joking about the Brunei's entourage. By the way, fantastic analysis. I would imagine TWU's airport at the current stage is not long enough too. I remembered our 737-800 from KUL took nearly the entire length of the runway to come to a stop (8,809 ft).
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