JonathanFong
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^^ I remember when T2 first opened, some of the gate directional signage on the walls were actually thin plastic/polystyrene panels. If you took a closer look at them, you can see it starting to peel. IMO T2 needs a rebuild, it just seems too flawed to retrofit further.
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MH's Facebook page has uploaded a video showing, amongst others, the new seats and A339 renders.
The A339 renders are back to showing the Wau with songket patterns and straightened word marks vs the video uploaded by Airbus yesterday. So the question is what exactly is MH's brand identity now?
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3 hours ago, jahur said:Negaraku is the standard.
The initiative to refresh the liveries coincides with airworthy maintenance and came during the Covid-19 pandemic when close to 80 per cent of aircraft were grounded due to the worldwide travel ban.
At the end of the programme to refresh the liveries, 58 of 76 aircraft would be decked in the liveries, Eke Nazri said.
Only issue now it seems the songket wau coming in will probably overwrite the current scheme. Even though both are negaraku the wau logo's are very different so as the company name font styling.
Is the 737-8MAX and A330neo versions of the livery officially the new standard now? If it is, I hope we start seeing them on existing a/c. Or else we're going to end up with a very odd visual divide between the new and old planes. 9M-MAH for instance was painted with the older version of the livery despite coming online around the same time as 9M-MVA.
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12 hours ago, Sandeep G said:Would perhaps be a little too simplistic of my assuming - but given that the current Aerotrains operate on a wheel based (not railed system) platform, would a temporary use of these devices (modified perhaps by way of ensuring the platforms may accommodate the train rather than vice-versa) to temporarily run on one (or both) of the aerotrain lines to keep the service running conveniently.. but at least in my thoughts, it seems more plausible/realistic having such a service ready perhaps even by year end as oppose to the end-2024 projections for the new line - and would be some degree of respite for the airport and passenger/customer feel alike.
The Aerotrains are actually guided by a track in the middle, so nope they can't just run any rubber tyred vehicle on it.
Best for MAHB to buy more of the wider low floor airport buses. I'm surprised it took them so long to procure them when they seem to be standard equipment for airports.
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I must say that although the original red-white livery had a straightened wau, it doesn't seem as "weird" or distorted in pictures as compared to this new one.
Maybe the white disc in the original had a framing effect that mitigated the distortion. This new one feels like it's slanted forward instead of straight.
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^^ With less a/c active than before, I guess that's the reason for their current delays.
I'm not privy to why the ATR72-600 were disposed off very young, but I wonder what the turboprop fleet expansion plans for FY are now, if any.
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Hi everyone. Here are a selection of shots I took on 2 separate days from the Runway Visitor park at Manchester Airport. Not a very fancy setup, merely a kit lens, as well as the typical inconsistency of British weather as demonstrated.
20/4/2018
CS-TTS, Air Portugal
CS-TTS by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrD-AIAH, Condor Flugdienst, now sporting standard Thomas Cook Group livery
D-AIAH-4 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrAn alternate angle:
D-AIAH-6 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrFollowed by Lufthansa's D-AIUA
D-AIUA-2 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrEI-DLC, One of many Ryanair 738s
EI-DLC-3 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrAn attempted close-crop
EI-DLC-4 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrEI-GJM, yet another Ryanair 738
EI-GJM-4 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrFlybe Dash 8 Q400 in old livery
G-ECOF-2 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrAnother Flybe Q400, except G-ECOI formerly flew for Brussels Airlines, hence the colour scheme.
G-ECOI by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrG-KKEV in Flybe's new livery
G-KKEV-2 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrAnd the highlight of the day for me personally, TUI's G-OOBN making the turn off Runway 23R
G-OOBN-2 by Jonathan Fong, on Flickr
G-OOBN-4 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrThomas Cook A321
G-TCDB-3 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrHelvetic Airways Fokker 100. Spot the captain waving.
HB-JVH-3 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrFinnair E190LR
OH-LKO by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrAnother rarity: a Dornier Do-328JET
OY-JJG by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrClosing off with a Dutch baby Boeing.
PH-BGH-2 by Jonathan Fong, on Flickr---
22/4/2018
Lighting wasn't that great after the sun a few days before, but the proximity makes up for it.
OE-LDC, Austrian Airlines A319
OE-LDC by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrHere's a rare one. An ERJ-145LR owned by Pan Européene Air Service. I'm assuming its for corporate charters.
F-HBPE by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrThe highlight of the day slowing down on Runway 23R. PIA's AP-BGJ, B777-200ER
AP-BGJ by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrWhile the B777 takes an exit further down the runway, Easyjet's OE-IJA manages to slow down in time for the high-speed turn off nearer to the viewing spots.
OE-IJA-2 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrWhile the PIA B777 lumbers along slowly
AP-BGJ-2 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrMum and son
AP-BGJ-4 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrJet2's G-JZHP. Jet2 was apparently ranked as the best airline in the UK early in April. A bit mind boggling to be honest...
G-JZHP by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrEasyjet's G-EZRI eyeing a departing Lufthansa Airbus sibling.
G-EZRI-3 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrAnd a non-sharklet A320
G-EZDA by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrThe sole Speedbird I spotted that day.
G-EUPL by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrA new one for me: B738 with split-scimitar winglets.
G-TAWM by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrClose up of the scimitars.
G-TAWM-3 by Jonathan Fong, on FlickrCompared with the traditional B737NG winglets.
G-JZHB-3 by Jonathan Fong, on Flickr---
That's all folks! Thanks for viewing!
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Hi all. Here are some pictures from when I dropped by Berlin Tegel Airport for some spotting during my summer vacation in 2017. Real life and all intervened and I've only got round to editing the pictures I took.
It was my first time doing proper spotting with a kit lens setup, and the lighting was mostly favourable. The most prominent airline seen here, however, is no more.The album can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127562257@N05/sets/72157690786734261
Turns out I can't embed flickr images here. Sorry about that!
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I've flown BA on the morning LHR > Belfast City and LHR > MAN sectors. I noticed that for some reason on the MAN sector they didn't serve food, whereas on the Belfast sector they served breakfast for the morning runs, while at other times they served snacks only.
Not quite sure why there's a difference in service, but on one of the Belfast runs I heard the Captain refer to the flight as a "Shuttle" service which is relatively old, so maybe there's that.
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^^ I did a quick google on 9M-XAD and turns out its been returned to Aer Lingus. I was previously under the impression it was new or something.
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^^ If we ever had plans for a nice transport/aviation museum, T1's original plans would make for a nice exhibition centre
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Aint he the same guy who resigned because he wanna took responsibility for the death of Bangladeshi workers on site at Sungai Buloh depot?
No not him. The current CEO of MRT Corp is DS Sharil Mokhtar. The guy who quit was the previous CEO before him Datuk Azhar Abdul Hamid.
Tbh, MRT Corp isn't a train operating company but merely handling its construction, so I don't see what experiences he can bring in. Its different if they appointed someone from ERL, which is what KTM did for the ETS.
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1991- VIP lounge I guess??
1989- baggage claim area..I wonder there are how many baggage claim conveyor in T1 as T1 is not that big by juding the pictures of it..
1979 before the renovation
check in counters 1983
1992 fire
1993- I don't know which part of the terminal, I was not even born yet....
1994
1994- I guess the blue columns and the roof above it is not part of the original construction, I meant it was added after renovation..
1994
1995- travelator area, departure hall I guess??
Those pictures are taken from the internet..
I have not seen T1 before as I am too young for that, but my dad used to work in T1 before I was even born that's why I knows that it was the ex international airport of Kuala Lumpur. I feels very sad when they demolished such a beautiful terminal building...
BTW where does the airtel located?? is it inside the terminal building itself or a separate building? It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could show pictures of the airtel...
Ahh I think I did link these pictures in skyscrapercity from the NST archive.
I wasn't born yet at that time too so I'll just make a guess:
The 3 1994 pictures (blue columns and stuff) were probably the pickup areas
And the final 1995 and 1993 pictures is probably in one of the 2 wings with aerobidge gates that was added in the 1983 renovation.
Oh and I think the 1989 picture of the conveyor belt is of Terminal 2
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^^ No wonder Pelangi had Dorniers.
I remember flying Pelangi F50s from Kerteh when I was a kid, and there was a framed picture of a Pelangi Dornier in an office in the terminal.
I always thought Pelangi was a separate company leasing MH F50s O.O But their financial performance was extremely bad apparently.
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The formatting in the "Notes" portion for the 737-800 has an error in it..bad editing probably points to..yea probably a joke
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In September last year I flew a BA 772ER to LHR..Aircraft was full: Economy full of students, Premium Economy onwards was full of Brits hehe. But we got the old cabin interior.
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Sharing my KUL-Belfast City transfer experience. The first time I flew I got randomly stopped by a very free customs officer and had my bags checked. The second time I flew I just walked straight through since there were no customs counter and officers.
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I had experienced an aircraft arriving early by 15 mins and had to wait in the aircraft for 15 mins. The Captain had announced that they had to wait for the aerobridge handlers as the aircraft arrived early.
Only experienced this in KLIA
I've experienced something similar too. We arrived on a flight from BKI at night on time, but there was nobody to open the gate doors or something, at least that's what they told us.
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Thanks. It is a way of misleading passengers, unfortunately.
As for the camera, they were switched off sometime last year due to complaints from passengers post MH17, according to the cabin crew when I flew in October 2015. However, in August and September 2014, they were still displaying the camera view on-board. Such a shame!!! .
Shame indeed. I wish they could have an added an option to activate it (per seat) in the IFE for those who wish to view it. For my earlier flight I actually shied away from selecting a bulkhead seat because I was hoping to see the camera *shakes head*
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Why doesn't MH update the customers on the revised flight time?
I flew MH1 2 weeks ago and about to fly MH2 in 2 days time. They also pushed forward the departure time of both flights by about 30mins, so on MH1 we were scheduled to depart at 930pm instead of the original 10pm, but due to a delay we left at 10 anyway. AFAIK that's the only timing update we got.
Also, do MH 380 flights still switch on the tail cameras now? The cam wasn't on for takeoff and landing for MH 1.
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Actually, why didn't MH transfer all their pax bound for AMS, CDG and FRA through MH2 and MH4 instead and connect on BA regional? Or are they always packed to LHR?
I'm about to find out how its like to transfer from a BA domestic flight to an MH flight soon enough, though transferring from a BA international flight to a domestic flight was bad enough.
(Long time lurker here)
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It would be quite the product if that was the economy setup, provided the seatbacks themselves are comfy enough. Imagine: Premium layout as regular econ class at a slightly higher price.
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I drew a red version of soorox's livery proposal when i was bored a few months ago haha, and also recently came up with a different blue version. They're rather crude though..drawn with Paint.net
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^ Quite a sad decline though. Anyone remember the Super Ranger? And the time MH launched their new Business seats on the 777? Better times eh.
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The Prestige Sleepers would work for shorter regional hops, but are outdated and a return to MH's older Business Class seats on the B744, B772 and current A333s, they are the same base model too if I'm not mistaken. The Prestige Suites would be great for the longer haul routings to SYD, MEL, DOH etc.