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  1. Oh dear, this won't go down well for those who want to freshen up before heading downtown for meeting. I believe MH is one of the few airlines, or maybe the only one who does this. They can always not do those 2x/3x elite points promotion to control the crowd.
  2. MH has removed arrival lounge access/ benefit for those arriving into KLIA. Making a big hoo-ha now at social media. Any true?
  3. China Airlines (CI) has inducted B-18919 ex-SAS SE-RSA MSN 358 into service, the sibling of MH's 9M-MAH MSN 378. CI has uploaded its seat map on their website, but MH has not updated theirs though.
  4. SQ Group definitely has this in their mind. Just saw someone booked SBW-EWR, with 37 hours layover. LOL. They will definitely do KUA/MYY/SBW/KCH-PER/SYD/MEL/BNE. A walk in the park for them.......
  5. SKS Airways is now dead though, not sure if we can resuscitate it back as 'Frankenstein'. For Scoot, their flight are sold as SQ flight as well, not sure if SQ will bite the bullet, unless they set up a different team to handle flight to and from SZB. Also, SQ/MH are in JV, that would be complicate. The only party I can see taking up the offer is AirAsia, but they won't be able to offer FlyThru services. I can see them flying SZB-PEN, LGK, KBR, KCH, BKI, DMK/BKK, SIN and CGK. They would earn a bomb with these routes.
  6. Drove past the airport a few weeks ago, the area across the the airport, those ex-Malaysia Airlines buildings, and sports complex are now all hoarded up.
  7. Oh dear, Phase 3 the capacity will be expanded to 8 million. RIP Jalan Lapangan Terbang Subang. Btw, doesn't the MAHB senior general manager for strategy knows that Batik Air has stopped their ATR services last month? And they have made it clear they are not coming back to SZB with jet services? The whole NST article doesn't give any confidence any Malaysia-based airlines are interested in commencing jet service in SZB. MAG CEO Captain Izham last year has stated they need to engage with industry players and policymakers to avoid cannibalisation. Batik Air CEO also said they won't be returning to SZB. Really don't know what is happening behind the scene.
  8. AirAsia's first flight for the day start at around 5am (used to be 6am), ends around 11:50pm if I am not mistaken. In between the downtime, the engineering crew will fix as many defects as they can based on daily report. Each airframe will do around six to eight sectors per day. That's that much you can push with a metal tube, anything more your aircraft will be a hangar queen soon or God forbid falling off the skies if appropriate checks are not done in tween daily flights.
  9. Yes, definitely cheaper. The various fee and charges are cheaper at late night/ graveyard hours compared to those early morning, mid afternoon and evening departures. Cebu Pacific thrives in such areas to save cost, AirAsia Group wise is quite the opposite.
  10. Given how cheap the B737-800NG lease is nowadays, I don't see why MAG is reluctant to do so. They can quite easily induct two airframes from a same source to reduce the paperwork and pre-EIS activity. However this is MAG we are talking about, they have done stranger things. I have read some bad comments on the service KCH-MYY by FY vv. Certainly looks bad on MAG overall. Now that Maswings will be bought over by Sarawak government, will they be competing with MAG? That would be interesting to see. Many moons ago, MH domestic route map were quite extensive.
  11. Curious to know what makes FFF different from MLK and MLL since they are from the batch and manufactured at the same time. I landed last Sunday evening unfortunately I could not see much of the hangar. Based on the customer code -8FZ, there is only one available in the market Aeromexico XA-AMW in storage since October 2023, not sure if FY would like to stick to same customer code or they will randomly grab any random B737-800NG from the used market. There are a lot of used B737-800NG available now.
  12. My guess on the three additional B737-800NG 9M-FFF, 9M-MLK, and 9M-MLL?
  13. Gain some, lose some, can't satisfy everyone, unfortunately. Hopefully with this revision, MAHB has no more excuses for less than stellar customer experience when they use KLIA Terminal 1. The Anjung Tinjau is in a mess now. The mini Kidzania occupied the whole right side, and was not in operation at all last week when I was travelling through. Left side is occupied by Tabung Haji, which I can still make do with. They placed the coffee and drinks machine...arggh.....so messy.
  14. This was last Thursday March 7, 2024 17 00 hours. The Immigration Department of Malaysia should really take a leaf from those of their Singapore counterpart. There was no staff directing elderly family travelling with kids/ special needs individuals to the priority counters. Really feel bad for our guests. 00
  15. Not this year AFAIK, but from 2026 onwards. FY 737 will concentrate in PEN for now, ATR72 service at SZB will gradually draw down by 2026 before becoming full jet services. Batik Air has not indicate they will do 737 services from SZB as they do not want to spread out their resources between two airports KUL and SZB. Things may change again depending on how the government plans to re-develop SZB.
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