Mohd Suhaimi Fariz
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Might as well just close down MH. This stinks of a D7 bailout...
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More details of AK's bid emerging
1) A380 is gone, and Khazanah to bear the cost of the debt. Leased A332 also gone. 737MAX will not be taken up.
2) Khazanah to bear retrenchment costs
3) No golden shares, AK to call the shots fully
4) FY not included in deal, MASwings sold.
5) MH branding is gone.
All in all, Khazanah will have to bear RM 8 billion in costs...
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AirAsia, JAL front runner to take over MAS - Air France-KLM & Malindo also bidded.
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As long as the question of ownership of MH is not solved, forget talking about buying/leasing new planes to replace the A330s.
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6 minutes ago, jani said:This should be Khazanah's job though, not the CEO.
True, but if the CEO is cool towards selling to foreign investors, then that would be a problem as well.
Already rumour has it that Raja Azmi is being replaced because he is opposed to a sale of MAHB to Vinci Airports.
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25 minutes ago, flee said:The 78X will give them improved CASK and will also allow them some room for expansion. They are certainly a viable replacement for A333s
No point having improved CASK when your RASK is not improved.
The A380 has low CASK but yet MH can't make scheduled flights profitable.
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1 hour ago, flee said:The MoU was just a politcal stunt for the former PM. If they had considered it carefully, the 78X would be a better fit for MH (as A333 replacements) as they don't need the range - they already have the A359 for long range.
As for the options with ALC, do you know when they expire? It does not look like they are in any hurry to take them up.
The 78X carries way more passengers in 2-class arrangement than the 789, so I honestly don't see how it could be a perfect replacement for the A333s.
Besides, the 789 were ordered for expansion as well as replacement. Yes they have A350s for long range, but they only have 6 to serve LHR. How are they going to schedule the 6 for expanded flights when they already use 4 of the 6 for daily LHR rotations?
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All they need is a CEO that can help facilitate the sale of MAHB to foreign investors.
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On 1/3/2020 at 12:47 PM, Craig said:That's what I thought, but SOC-KUL arrives around 02:45. Trains aren't running (not too sure if buses are) and they probably have to wait for another 3-4 hours before things start moving both at KUL and KL city centre. The 02:45 arrival won't connect to either EK/QR 02:00-ish departures either.
Probably the travel agency had arranged for buses to take them into the city.
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2 hours ago, Craig said:MH up gauged their Surakarta flights to A330 according to Airlineroute. Anybody knows why this twice weekly, almost zero connections at KUL for the return sector (connection ~6 hours for non-ASEAN flights, longer for flights to JED/MED) warrants an A330?
Demand for those who want to go for Umrah but at the same time want to take a stop at KUL?
Given the long layover they can go into KL, spend the entire day, then go off to JED.
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Interesting talking about the marketing stuff.
From what I heard internally, things aren't exactly on the mend.
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Interesting that LATAM & MH is tying up now, given how LATAM is severing connections with big OW carriers on the account of it leaving OW for SkyTeam after DL took a large stake in the company.
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On 12/13/2019 at 8:23 PM, flee said:E-hailing and aviation are different industries - aviation has all the rules and regulations already in place. MoT were merely catching up with e-hailing because there were no proper rules and regulations for that industry.
It's not the rules that's the problem. It's the implementation.
I honestly doubt that they would be able to do the same as the UK CAA.
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I'll save the applause when it's actually proven that merging MAVCOM and CAAM will not erode consumer rights.
I seriously doubt that it will be more efficient & cost effective. I mean, just look at e-hailing and how it was screwed up by the MoT's arbitrary actions.
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10 minutes ago, jani said:Are you sure? I seem to remember AirAsia not wanting to list on Traveloka. Whatever it is, am not familiar with the whole model so perhaps I am wrong.
Will airasia.com just sell routes AirAsia doesn't serve? If no, what if JL is cheaper to Osaka? Customers will buy JL instead of D7? Actually I should research all this myself but too lazy haha
Technically that's the case. Not sure if the airline can still list on Kiwi.com & ask them to stop listing on AirAsia's site.
From the looks of things they only sell tickets to select routes - AKL, BCN, DOH, DXB IST, LHR & MAD. Funny thing is you can actually buy MH flights to LHR!
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1 hour ago, jani said:Personally I feel this idea will fail quite terribly. Can't imagine airlines wanting to share their inventory with AirAsia. Will be interesting to see if proven wrong.
I don't think the airline has any say if they are okay with listing on Kiwi.com.
In any case, the airlines still wins because they get extra revenue from an additional marketing channel.
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5 hours ago, Craig said:This probably affects a lot of airlines that doesn't fly to/from Malaysia (e.g. QF/AF/LH/LX) or flights that just overfly Malaysia (e.g. AU/NZ-DXB/DOH/AUH, HKG/CAN-PER/DPS).
Does anybody knows if Thailand have exorbitant fees for using their airspace? KA, CZ, Fedex/UPS seems to enter Malaysian air space near Kota Bharu and then fly close to the MY-TH border and then northwards towards PEN and sometimes even LGK instead of cutting across Thai airspace (or are there no air ways around that area?). Even KA's HKG-KNO avoid Thai airspace.
The charges are a bit convoluted compared to MY.
https://www.caat.or.th/en/archives/25480
http://aip.dca.gov.my/aip pdf/GEN/GEN 4/GEN 4.2/Air Navigation Service Charges.pdf
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1 hour ago, flee said:Transport Minister: Last FAA audit was done in 2003, not 2016 as claimed by Najib
Najib never said FAA audit. He was referring to the ICAO audit - which is basically the standard to which the FAA IASA is following.
16 minutes ago, jahur said:Heard caam being instructed to study the possibility of increasing air space charges to airlines. Wonder if this will affect consumer ticket prices.
It will.
Took them long enough to form a task force.
https://www.theborneopost.com/2019/11/18/task-force-formed-to-oversee-caam-corrective-measures/
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On 11/16/2019 at 10:59 AM, flee said:Mavcom's budget is huge as it is based on a collection of RM 1 per pax at all of Malaysia's airports.
Really don't know why Mavcom cannot be part of CAAM. However, what is really needed to be separate is our version of the NTSB. We do not have that kind of expertise to investigate air crashes and we do need it now because we have so many airlines and we also have many aircraft in their fleets.
Because the remit of ensuring air safety should be separate from the act of promoting aviation in the country. There may be conflicts of interest there.
Rather than combining them, make their roles clearer, in that MAVCOM should focus on the front end portion - that is, airlines, passengers & airports, while CAAM focuses on safety, regulations & navigation systems.
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1 hour ago, Craig said:For anyone who's curious what the shortcomings were:
Taken from The Star. Apparently they almost got downgraded to Category 2 back in 2003 too.
What's more important is the fact that they were able to rectify the situation quickly so that didn't happen.
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8 hours ago, flee said:Why not? Mavcom will just be a department under the CAAM and both will be financed by the tax on the travelling public together with fees that the CAAM levies for its services.
I sort of anticipated this move: CAAM mulls higher fees on aviation industry services
Not going to work that way. Pretty sure that someone (and you know who that someone is) is going to argue that now that MAVCOM is under CAAM, they should cut the tax, which undoubtedly will happen to curry favour with the voters, and thus CAAM ends up with less funding & more to do.
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2 hours ago, flee said:Merge Mavcom back into CAAM and use the combined budgets for the advancement of Malaysian civil aviation.
Won't work.
Why be the jack of all trades and master of none?
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1 hour ago, Craig said:This is concerning to say the least. This problem won't be resolved in a year or two if it's true.
The problem with this is that the technically minded won't want to join the government because of less than lucrative pay. Why would they, when they can join the private sector & earn so much more.
On another note, maybe this strengthens the case for MAVCOM's existence, given how the FAA IASA program focuses only on the safety aspect of things.
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2 hours ago, kandiah k said:Interesting how we have a standard or quality measure based on an American benchmark which does not even meet their own standards. This is the way the world works I guess, living to the American benchmark 😄 This is just my personal opinion, no offence meant.
On the new downgrade, it also states no code share agreements; so I wonder what happens to the code shares between MH and AA? Are they affected by this downgrade?
No new codeshares. Existing codeshares will remain. As for standards, the FAA uses ICAO standards actually.
To say that this is a slap in the face would be an understatement. If this had happened in 2014, then it would have been understandable, even if it's not forgivable.
What happened in the intervening years that led to this?
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According to this report, AF-KL wants to buy a 49% stake in MH and would like to setup KUL as an MRO hub. Would the term be like DL's purchase of VS?
JL meanwhile only wants 25%
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-airlines-m-a/air-france-klm-proposes-buying-49-of-malaysia-airlines-jal-seeks-smaller-stake-sources-idUSKBN1ZK0DX