Wilson Kook

sad day for all malaysians. saw a video of 370's flight path on the mirror.co.uk. anyone who has seen it notice the aircraft made a right bank prior to vanishing? any possible explanations? I cannot tell the gap in time between the path adjustment and the disappearance from radar. hope someone with more expertise can enlighten me.

Isn't that one of those balloon-like aircrafts?

Well. The French are back. The Turks are back. Soon, the Aussies and British

Didn't realize the thread was started here. Thought it'd be in Foreign Carriers and Malaysia. My bad

Surprised no one has posted about Turkish Airlines operating 3 weekly flights between Istanbul and KL from 25th Feb onwards? http://www.businesstraveller.asia/asia-pacific/news/turkish-airlines-resumes-istanbul-kl-route Another big player coming to town!

Local press running out of things to publish?

I guess apart from connectivity, they brought in more "frequency" across destinations in Asia.

Haha. What did I tell you guys! Look who is coming to town now. Just have to be patient on TK. I think they will eventually make the trip down. I dunno about BA and QF tho. But the more options we have, the better. Not that MH provides the best frequency and connectivity in the world.

http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/50677/air-france-possibly-to-kuala There is some truth to the rumour. AF and possibly TK to launch flights to KUL in 2013. Fingers crossed

So.. Did MH make it back into the top 10 or not?

Apparently not to Skytrax

Taken from: http://bernama.com/b...s.php?id=645872 Cathay Pacific to go 4 times daily on Kuala Lumpur - Hong Kong and 10 x weekly on Penang - Hong Kong. Great news!

Well. No more direct flights to Bahrain. Gotta opt for Dubai or Abu Dhabi and then make a short hop over lol.

Now MH's remaining A330s on order don't seem like a bad idea. By the time we get our A350 (if they did order) it'll be 2020 and people are probably flying to space for fun.

Well well well... What do we have here... Link from The Star

This airline has Air Asia X painted all over it. That's what I think The younger generation might find this airline catchy. Also, I don't see how they are able to compete with D7 for now. I am waiting for D7 to mount flights to SYD. Then we'll see....

Any chance that they (EK) deploy the A380 for the tag on to Melbourne? It would make more sense since this particular flight from Dubai makes two stops (one in KL, one in Melbourne), as compared to the regular DXB-KUL shuttle. Then again, EK flights from Melbourne to KL depart around 3:40am. Maybe that's the "potong steam" factor. There's literally NOTHING you can do in Melbourne Tullamarine once it's past 12am. Can't be doing duty free shopping for 2-3 hours. I recently flew back to KL from Melbourne and my flight was delayed for 2-3 hours. We managed to board the plane at approximately 6.00am. I had to loiter around the terminal for a good 5-6 hours. Eventually ran out of things to do and resorted to paying for wifi services (and the internet was crap!) Load was pretty good since many students were going home for the holidays. But during non-peak seasons, flight load on the 773 is about 60-70% tops.

Add value to MH my "That man" can claim (if he does) all he wants that the new airline will target a totally different market / complement MH. As if MH's premium product is not good enough. What complement you want some more!? He's a parasite. A little greedy, and cunning, in my opinion. Hope I'm wrong about him. Have looked up to him after what he's done with the Air Asia brand.

Is there any well-known airport in the world with a dual mode runway as of today? Never really thought about it until this was brought up.

Funny guy.. He's the one who told us that premium airlines should stick to premium services and LCCs stick to providing low cost services. All bull**** lol.

Caught my attention while I was web-browsing for fun facts.. Link via The Chief Officers Network Food for thought perhaps? Every Tom, Dick & Harry Airline is going to want to have a share of the Sydney-KL-London market/route.

He wants MAS and Air Asia to merge into what?! Then of course the government will lay their itchy hands on the airline and take them downhill.

MH aren't the only ones to place orders for new A333 aircraft tho. CX for instance, have placed orders for another 20 birds. Pretty sure MH will have to replace the workhorse 772's with the 787 or 350 variances in the future (probably serve most European routes). I guess the A333 will be suitable for high volume regional and Asian routes? Probably a couple of Aussie destinations? Tho I agree, they will probably be at the bottom of the waiting list when that time (placing orders for 787 or 350) finally comes.

I've got a question tho. Imagine if you're playing "virtual golf" and the flight goes through some severe turbulence. Early halt to your progress. Kinda "potong steam"

That's some unbelievable stuff.