JuliusWong

MH could not make the third slot work well for them since the timing and frequency were highly not desired, and had tried many different pattern. KUL-LGK-LHR vv. and KUL-PEN-LHR vv. at different times 20 years ago. It was bleeding heavily in red. It was finally leased our to Air India in 2007 for free during Idris Jala's period as MH CEO. Managed to dig out this information in airliners.net, I believe he was a member here before:

Opps, sorry, DLI is Dalat in Vietnam, but AirAsia is indeed planning to enter DLI. Not sure if it is Malaysia or Indonesia operation.

There are so many B737NG out there, they dun need to be aunties that haggles in the wet market. LMAO! MAG, please have some dignity. All these mess by FY and MH previously is the main reason why Sarawak gomen wants to buyout maswings. MAG is just to messy and ever changing due to political interference, change in strategy and hoards of other reasons.

Yes indeed, I was surprised by Port Blair assignment to AirAsia. Not sure if they will operate the route in the end, but still surprising nevertheless. Edit: There are some Youtube video of A320 landing at USM, so I think it can handle A320/B737NG now. At this point of time, it seems only A319 can do a landing there, TG used to keep two B734 solely for the route, but dropped the route after the B734s were retired. The airport will be undergoing expansion in the next few years to increase its pax capacity as well.

Aero Dili Airlines, the local airline in East Timor has raised objection for AirAsia Malaysia's entry. The irony is Indonesia AirAsia and Aero Dili has a partnership for DPS-DLI-DPS flight. One thing for sure, the KUL-DLI route won't be able to sustain 4x weekly. Seem like everyone is battling to get into Koh Samui (USM), previously reserved to Bangkok Air only since they owned the airport. Batik Air and AirAsia....USM can handle both B737-800NG and A320. After Batik Air's venture into Karachi (KHI), AirAsia X is also venturing into it. I hope the security is better there now. For Chongqing (CKG), will they be taking back the allocation to AirAsia Malaysia? It was D7's destination initially. CEI is Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport, serving Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand. IXZ is Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair serving the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Is there demand for 4x weekly service?? COK is Cochin International Airport is an international airport serving the city of Kochi, Kerala, in southwestern India.

PEN and BKI bases like previously, although BKI ones are now smaller than it initially started, they lost a few pilot to ME3 recently. For some reason, outbound flight to China first titer cities PEK, PKX and PVG are not doing very well. The demand is very weak. Different stories to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities which are partially sought after by tour agents. They booked the whole aircraft, still make money even though the flight is not full.

PEN-KMG is charter flight, FY is now doing a lot of charter flight via PEN and TWU. Makes you wonder where are they getting all the aircraft to do so. BKI-MYY cancellation is the last hurrah of MH's heyday. if I am not mistaken, MH used to fly 3x daily? weekly? using B737 and F-50 in yesterdayears. This route was only commenced back in November 2023 The route will now be monopolised by AirAsia with 2x daily service. .

9M-XAD was a first generation A330, line number 330, A lot of equipment were from early 90s generation or not installed due to regulation at that time and was not upgraded since it was a leased frame. I was told its operation was confined to very much overland or need to fly near land since its navigation system is pretty limited. It has 233 tonnes MTOW, definitely can't go LGW non-stop.

Actually, AirAsia X initially placed an order for three GE-powered A330-200 to use specifically on their LGW routes, but the order was cancelled last minute. Two were completely built when the order was cancelled. One is now flying with Iraqi Airways, another now operates as ACJ. MSN 1321 Was to be 9M-XXI, now with Skytrooper as VP-CKQ F-WWKM 9M-XXI A330-202 AIR ASIA by Antonio Doblado, on Flickr MSN1339 Was to be 9M-XXJ, now with Iraqi Airways as YI-AQY F-WWCC // 9M-XXJ AirAsia X Airbus A330-202 - cn 1339 by Florent Péraudeau, on Flickr Thereafter, Tony persuaded Airbus to launch A330-900s following the success of A320neo family. They launched with 50 orders from AirAsia X at the July 2014 Farnborough Air show (that's a decade ago, and currently 2024 Farnborough Airshow is on-going). Then, they added another 5 by end of 2014 when they firmed up the airshow order, total 55. In 2018 Farnborough Airshow, they firmed up order for 66 (+11) and added another 34, to a total 100 A330neo. However, the 34 are merely LOI. It did not managed to go through the voting by shareholders. In 2019, it added another 12 units, bringing to a total to 78. Post pandemic, the order now stands at 15 (-63). Back in 2018, when Airbus was trying hard to keep AirAsia X as customer since the latter was flirting with Boeing for a potential B787-10 order. Airbus has promised the 251 tonnes A330-900 will be able to do KUL-LGW non-stop B787-10 looks good in AirAsia X's colour though. It only exists as an aircraft model in RedQ when Boeing gave them after the B787-10 pitching.

I don't think they have any particular superstition, just random assignment. With A330-900 taking over A330-200/300 role, we will see them all over Asia Pacific destinations soon enough. Hence, the 20 units they have on order now is definitely not sufficient. Even at 40 units is still a bit of stretch.

Hahahhaha.......typical Tony! Now trying to copy Firefly giving out free meal and extra luggage.....

Life goes on.........

Still can recall MH was bombed so badly in the social media for offloading pax bags during winter during its last few months of B777-200ER operation to CDG. The aircraft was packed to the brink, still need to offload. https://www.facebook.com/malaysiaairlines/posts/statement-malaysia-airlines-confirmed-today-that-normal-check-in-baggage-allowan/852660238180504/

I think it was demolished to build the Spirit Aerosystem factory, and also Sapura Engineering which came later. They are maintaining Malaysia gomen A319ACJ and A320ACJ at their hangar now. They will be demolishing Terminal 2 soon or they might have done so, it used to serve KUL-SIN shuttle flight during its heyday. The terminal building has been vacant since November 2009, when MAHB moved its corporate headquarters to Sepang. https://theedgemalaysia.com/article/beginning-end-subangs-terminal-2

Finally, I found this complete old Terminal 1, 2 and 3 (Left to Right) of the old Subang Airport. Malaysia's international airport by Travelling Man from Singapore, on Flickr