S V Choong
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HANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some airlines affiliated with China’s HNA Group Co Ltd are delaying aircraft lease payments to lessors, and Export-Import Bank of China, which is a long-term financer of the group, has formed a team to handle the conglomerate’s liquidity issues, several banking and leasing sources said. -
Heard an inside story that our then PM was pissed with the US VP at the time, Al Gore, and instructed MAS to buy the A380 rather than buying any big aircraft from Boeing.
So this kind of sway or award vs. punishment is actually not unique to China then. Through the media, you can only hear the Chinese government would punish the US or Europe by purchasing either Boeing or Airbus, depending on political interests, but not other governments.
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If the A380s were the 747-8i... thing would have been a lot easier. They could convert them into 747-8i BCF/ BDSF and whatever (converted freighters) and sell it to the freight operators or transfer it to MASKargo.
Should have ordered the 747-8i instead. **face palm!
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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, A359
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, B738
Vietnam Airlines (VN): A321
Air France (AF): B77W
Garuda Indonesia (GA): B77W
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL): B77E
Air China: B744, A321, B77W, B748, A333
Hong Kong Airlines: A320
Easy Jet A319, A320West Air (China), A320-200
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, A350-900, 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
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So is MH going to retain the A380s!!?? It seems that they keep flipping their decisions....
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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, A359
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, B77W, B748, A333
Hong Kong Airlines: A320
Easy Jet A319, 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, A350-900, 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
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Please, believe a lot of people don't quite appreciate this patronising and somewhat sexist remark. If you have a beef with another person appreciate if you could make use of the private messaging feature. Thanks.
why should you care what im inferring and why should you be sensitive if you had done nothing wrong and portrayed good and exemplary attitude which you can pass down to your good mannered children?? get it together woman all ppl could see you were trying to undermine my last statement about being able to secure the F seat, if you are not concerned about being relocated to other seats that's your choice why should you impose that on others and try to be sarcastic? and when people gave it back to you you couldnt take it???
JUST SO YOU KNOW, my problem with all these fiascos is not about not getting the F seat but its about how MH handled this issue, instead of giving us direct honest answer they gave me (and all those affected) twisted adulterated reasons for the change.
I was finally given an honest explanation during check in by the supervisor that there has been some system problem and F cabin is basically blocked off from pax, maybe they dont want to give written explanation on this which may implicate them, who knows but i dont care as long as i got an honest answer from the service provider.
Firstly I don't really understand why seat selection and being able to be upgraded is so important? If you don't wanna pay for F and expect to get bumped from paying J class ticket, that is just plain cheap skate.
Why bring other's children into the argument? And calling people woman out loud is just plain sexist and lack of respect, it is very unacceptable.
When people gave you indirect answer or be sarcastic simply because we think it is not worth reasoning with unreasonable people! We do not have the power or supernatural abilities to turn stones into gold. Think of it as a kind of respect towards you, the simplest form is to go all out on you, but we reckon it is not worth lecturing others. We are kind of shy as well as we are hoping through sarcasm perhaps they will realise they are in a bit of shame and will adjust themselves a little. That of course depends on the ability, intelligence and most important of all the maturity of the subject.
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Sounds like an over-entitled blogger, but what's new? MH at least sent him an e-mail notifying about the seat change (AFAIK, no airline has sent me a notification about a seat change, including MH this time around and I was bumped from my seat on KUL-BKI) and apparently it happens all the time (again, it's very rare for MH to move you from an assigned seat unless you are in F-cabin sold as 2-cabin flight). MH only opens up the F-cabin if J-cabin is full (hence you may assign a seat on the 380 F on 2-cabin service to NRT/ICN) but they will kick you out if they can accommodate everyone in the J cabin.
I've flown 2-cabin service in 3-cabin plane before (or 3-cabin service in 4-cabin plane). It's a YMMV situation. IME:
- CX blocks all F seats prior to check-in. They will open F cabin during OLCI to their Diamonds, OWE as well as pax connecting to/from F cabin
- TG closes the F section or the upper deck on the 744 (depending on your luck), but seat re-assignment is usually done at the airport
- BA also closes the F section but will open up if needed, but I don't fly BA that much - we should ask the GGL or GCH
Because those who uses social media to judge an airline usually don't buy revenue F tickets
Craig, there were actualy an occasion where I have flown with TG's A340-600... I paid for J, but was allowed to sit in A346's F class. I was sitting in Seat 1K between SIN and BKK.
There are indeed some exceptions but I believe TG was not selling the F product on regional route and A346 was about to be retired from fleet, hence they were selling them as J seats. The J and F seats were pretty full too during flight and I have gone down the aisles to check.
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To be fair no part of the message makes any sense to me at all. No solution, funny English (wonder who they hire for customer engagement), and to be honest, the first sentence sounds pompous and patronizing, or a really bad attempt at empathy. Looks a lot like passing the buck to me and you end up at a dead end.
Telling you to to call the 1 300 number pretty much sends you to oblivion. It's so bad that at the regional lounge the staff there told a foreign pax to call the number and select Bahasa instead of English, as selecting English would channel you to the outsourced call centre way out in the Pacific...
Agreed....
To whom do they outsource the calls in the Pacific to? Vanuatu or Fiji?
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From what i see here i can totally see that happening
But who are you to tell me that I can't do that?
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That was the initial objective - so they will be operating on regional routes in Asia.
From what has already been shared by nastar, we can see that this is largely implemented. The A332s will be flying to DAC, CAN, DPS, DEL, PVG and HKG.
Meanwhile, A333s will still be used to upgauge existing B738 routes if demand is there and spare aircraft are available.
But isn't the A332 a bit too heavy and wasteful for regional routes? I thought the A332 was perfect for long haul with less demand routes such as AKL.
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First A350 in BKI? Looks great!!
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In 1H 2018, the 6 A359s will arrive - these could also be deployed as substitutes for B738s, together with supersub, the A388.
Also, 1Q is usually a low season - so the need for additional capacity isn't so urgent.
Cool... thanks for your input, Francis!
So it turned out that the 6x A330-200s may become strays now that they have decided to keep the A388 and the incoming A350-900s?
Wonder if they will eventually order the B787-9s... or they may convert those order to 737Max 8 and Max 10...
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Why coming online in 6 months? Thought they are desperate?
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Was in Changsha yesterday and saw AK's presence there. Didn't know AK flies to Changsha!
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it looks like cathay and dragon's IFE just a updated, larger one?
see the usb port placement above ^
It has been 3-4 years since they introduced this size and seats for both KA and CX. I remembered I was on the same seat in 2014 on my A321s and A330-300s to mainland China. They have this interior on their CX B777-300ER and long haul A330-300 since 2013/14 too. For 777-200 and 777-300 non-ERs, I believe they have the old seats for awhile... and may have changed to these seats by now. Their B747-400 and A340-300 had the old bucket style green and blue seats though.
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Thanks, Waiping, for sharing!
Looks like I have an excuse to go to Tokyo again!
Did you go into the head section of the B747?
Plus the dots on Finnair A350 are not really rounded... wonder if this is done on purpose just as they do with their Finnair font or a case of poor stenciling during before the paint job. I like to think the former, but it looked a bit awkward as they are too random.
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Looking forward to more pics.
Do they provide transport to/from the airport?
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Must be a great pastime of yours! Good for you!
Were you ticked off by my comment earlier?
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my comment.
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Why are you on the thread then?
Just to see how many people will get ticked off by this comment.
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SV, you actually took part in the discussion upthread! Please see: http://www.malaysianwings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=20487&p=375061
I did, only about the rego sequence which began from 9M-MAB. But was not really paying attention on which registration will go on the body of the Malaysian flag bird before.
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Welcome back from wherever you have been. Sorry to burst the bubble but much of the "rumour" is already a fact many, many days (weeks) ago.
Fair enough, I don't really pay too much attention to MH anyway.
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MH's A350-900 standard "swoosh" livery.
http://a380.boards.net/thread/1569/a350-900-msn159-mh1?page=3
Rumour has it that this bird with test rego F-WZFG (MSN159) is going to be 9M-MAB.
I guess the National Flag bird with test rego F-WZHE (MSN165) is going to be 9M-MAC?
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Except residential property, most if not all China overseas acquisition were made by companies. Volvo and many of foreign assets were bought before current policy is in placed.
I beg to differ.
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Well those 2x742 (9M-MHI and 9M-MHJ specifically) before the 743 (9M-MHK) belonged to British Airways and it was NTU. So the engine choice was pre-determined by BA, hence BA customer code on the B747-236B. Do you know the political reasons behind the ditching of the RR, Mushrif?