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Extend refund policy to others, including airport operators, says Fernandes KUALA LUMPUR: The transport ministry’s new refund rule should apply to all stakeholders, including airport operators, and not just airlines, Capital A Bhd’s CEO, Tony Fernandes, said. Fernandes also said the rule should have some exclusion clauses, as there are possibilities that delays could be caused by suppliers, traffic control, and information technology outages. It is correct if the airline is at fault, but it is always easy to blame the airline. There are many issues like the recent Crowdstrike problem, where the system falls apart, and weather, he said after witnessing AirAsia’s inaugural flights to Sabah and Sarawak from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang today. Fernandes said there have been huge supply chain issues, and all airlines are suffering. “However, we do not need to be told that (refund to passengers) because we are already going to do it anyway. Running an airline is tough, and we rely on suppliers to provide us with engines and spare parts, for example, he said. He said the global CrowdStrike IT outage caused airlines to lose millions in revenue and had created chaos. Airlines need answers and compensation, he said, adding that the low-cost carrier has been in consultation with an American lawyer on the matter. On Aug 28, transport minister Loke Siew Fook announced that from Sept 2 airlines will be required to offer passengers the option of a full refund for flight delays of five hours or more. Last month, major institutions such as airlines, banks, media channels, and hospitals globally were hit by an IT outage linked to US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

Capital A's net loss swells in 2Q, aims to exit PN17 status by mid-2025 29 Aug 2024, 08:37 pm KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 29): Capital A Bhd (KL:CAPITALA) on Thursday posted a much larger net loss for the second quarter mainly due to higher foreign exchange losses and aircraft depreciation charges. Net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2024 (2QFY2024) widened to RM454.18 million, Capital A said in an exchange filing, marking its fourth consecutive quarter in the red. That compares to a net loss of RM91.55 million in 1QFY2024 and net profit of RM646.28 million in 2QFY2023. Capital A incurred RM403.9 million in foreign exchange losses and RM175 million in aircraft depreciation charges during the latest quarter. About 20% of the fleet was not in operation during the quarter and the company has 165 operating aircraft as at the end of June. Quarterly revenue, however, rose 54% year-on-year to RM4.86 billion as compared to RM3.15 billion a year ago, thanks to the strong recovery from domestic and international travel, which offset the higher fuel expenses and maintenance costs. Capital A is now aiming to exit the Practice Note 17 (PN17) status by the first half of 2025, said its chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes. “We are confident in the growth and value that Capital A companies will deliver in the coming quarters,” he said.

Validity of Malaysia Airlines operator cert slashed to 1 year Actually if you combined last year and the year prior of 2022 resignation its almost up to 300 seniors leaving. With them resupplying back the same amount but with inexperience technicians who just came out graduating.

If we had the culture of japan, MAG and a few board folks would be doing a press conference apologizing to everyone including staffs for the big mistake. CAAM and Mavcom would also be seen stepping in visually to make it look like there are attempts to rectify many of the issues. But alas we're stuck with an image and chat prompt essay blaming everything except themselves for the mess and CAM mavcom and MOT on autopilot with "do something pls". I think i recall what one of our vestige ministers was saying that "berdebat bukan budaya kita". 😂

They've finally hit the brakes.

Those china southern frames are firmed to be broken down for spare parts collection. It seems many A330 PW users will be eyeing for those frames bits and pieces to stock up. The current mess with dispatch reliability is the ticking timebomb already detonating and the worse part it has been warned repeatedly since last year to bulk up but the board and upper management are just too busy with collecting money and KPIs. Stuff like hoarding spare parts and retaining valuable talents to ensure smooth MRO process were never the managements main focus. Its "You dont like it! Get out!" and let all the scary responsibility be hold upon by the new underpaid, inexperienced folks who just are about to be grilled even more heavily onto the frying pan. At the sole end these new folks will also runaway asap with morale being so low bottom. But i can already anticipate mr.hr scientist would just open up another scam pool to mass hire more newbies and repeat the same mistakes just to score some savings that are most probably already derailed by passenger compensation and aircraft parking charges overseas lol. Worse part of it all it seems the ministry of transport and the msian press are in nyanyuk mode about the current state of air travel in Malaysia even the prospect of entering a career into the airline industry in msia is all scam like now. 🤣

There's quite a few of them. Problems those higher ups installed on the department are mostly from a finance background little to no background in aviation. Stuff like recurrent training and 1 take off landing min per 3 months on the a350 to retain the rating or its a mandatory sim, they do not understand and its a constant battle that management pilots and instructors have to tell the department higher ups and finance repeatedly. They even push the idea of shortening the line training by half but will probably get a club stick and hit the whole training dept if a shortcut cadet pilot damages an aircraft lol. I don't think it spells much confidence to switch out bolts and handles from a dodgy supplier. The issue pertains that finance folks were arguing why the mandated certified parts could not be priced the same as a hardware store item(with no known proper source of supply) that cost 10cents. The cost involving Parts manufacturer approved items have been repeatedly renegotiated ever since Christoph Mueler came in years ago it has significantly brought down the price rate. The whole mess we're seeing now is the finance department just trying to weasel any cost saving measures out of nothing.

These higher up folks are installed in just to collect as much money for the company as it can without long term planning on retention and logic. Typical chinamen bosses that are just there to cut throat in operation cost and to get stuff as cheap as possible. Arguing with engineers about an aviation certified mandated parts that the price of that said screw should be the same as the one from a kedai runcit hardware store in pricing. Then one arguing why pilots who are dual rated 330 350 need to be consistently be flown overseas for a350 sim base check as it incurs cost to fly them there while they assume the airbus common rating suffices in just practicing in the 330 sim in kl lol. Pretty basic stuff but these bosses seem to be not aware. It shows how out of incompetent some of these folks are.

Actually alarms have been sounded repeatedly since last year on the impending manpower and parts shortage. But higher ups just prefer to use up the Minimum equipment list and keep the planes flying until it legally cant. There was also a funny case where the finance folks were arguing with the engineering team about a freaking screw used in an aircraft costing a lot and comparing it to a screw being sold at a hardware shop. You also have a training higher ups who were arguing with instructors on why there is need to send the A330 crew to singapore for the A350 sim training thinking the Airbus A350 A330 dual rating is same same. You also have the revenue department selling flights it may not be able to honor cause money come come more important. Folks who are literally out of their depth.

More likely alarms were sounded repeatedly by staffs regarding aircraft and engineering vailability repeatedly that management partly conceded. Coupled with just 700 seats weekly, yields are likely on the low fence that its best to conserve the fleet.

With just a surplus of 2-3 frames by the end of this year it will be bad. One way if they don't want to operate spare operable aircraft like how our neighbors are doing then there is need to have slightly excess numbers of senior LAE manpower and hoard significant amount of parts. But with the global supply chain constraint means forex and supply and demand price hike will deter any attempts of acquiring massive amount of parts and stuff. Meanwhile HR is operating the washing machine by kicking out experienced folks and mass inserting freshies thinking the lower salary would keep the balance sheet leaner. The most dumbest thing is management blaming manufacturers and suppliers for the breakdown when statistically operating such constant deployment utilization rate for sure certain small things will break down. Deferring fixes and depending solely on the manufacturer's MEL item list to keep planes flying only for them to pile up to a point "NO GO" occurs is the dumbest move they can make when you dont have spares to deploy. Other airlines manual operates with some additional cushion above the MEL list as to avoid potential issues like this. But the only feedback i bet MAG's management will give is probably "its expensive bro" "Airlines from ULCC operates this way what cant you say a other carriers cant?".

HR: You guys kan overpaid bus driver and servants without degree. To new SPM hires since there's no decorum and an entire focus on making social media content you guys are worthy of the the Low Balled MYR 4-5K basic. If the world allows so we can replace you all with A.I 🤣 Finance: No money, target and msia market forces yada yada repeat rinse. Gov: Not my responsibility let the market decide but stupidly spends on unnecessary stuffs on the annual budget(Actual brain drain occurs)

USM runway is quite alike to ipoh amid USM being slightly longer. It wont be a problem for 738/a320 but yes flights out of USM cant fly far maybe restricted to no more than 3 hour routes or to trim down the amount of passenger payload. One thing is noted you may see them using more flaps than take off and landing consistently. TR probably waiting it out for the E2 than betting on the A320. In japan many third tier domestic airports have even shorter runway(some same length as ipoh's 2000meter runway) that are served by dense domestic configured 763 and 772 and recently 788 during holiday season. But those parts have the benefit of colder climate giving more performance margin to the aircraft.

FY has never launched scheduled international routes from BKI they only got the slots but never use them due to aircraft shortage. So far its been mostly TWU-china charters and an upcoming one from BKI. They've been pretty much 5 aircrafts. How they kung fu snake the network was basically trimming down the inter routes like SDK,TWU from supposed 1x daily to 3x-5x weekly. PEN also has some service reduction to some of its routes. Now with SZB it looks like they're just deploying aircrafts from PEN and BKI to do the routes. But looking at the turnaround spacing and aircraft utilisation rate its just a ticking time bomb waiting to happen for the passengers. A simple hiccup along the way the entire network goes into chaos. Again going back to MAG, looking at how constrained FY is and how rather not on timeline the 737max has been surely they should shopping for 2-3 spare second hand 737ngs out there. Either this company is one of those "auntie that haggles in the pasar" among aircraft lessors or just hoarding money but bare in mind being too overly conservative in spending also leads to losses in potential revenue.

That range is with around 310 passengers but does not include the penalties associate with winds, additional fuel needed to comply with diversion and holding then there's sometimes longer track miles. You add those up usually the max take off weight has been fully use up so you either install an even lighter cabin product onboard or cutback the amount commercial payload you take. Airasia's a339 should be able to handle the load if its flown from Thailand. If i am not mistaken each passenger is weight at 100kg by default and it includes the 7kg handcarry it however does not include checked bag which are calculated separately. So going from 280 to 360 an extra 80 passenger est thats penalty of potentially less 8000kg or 8tonnes of fuel that can be loaded if the max take off weight is at the near limit. Thats around 1hour and 15min worth of less flying.

If there is good tailwind and MH configures them within the 250seater range it is possible. Overall the A339 is still not a proper B772 replacement the right candidate is the A359. Even in the old days MH had to offload bags for the short B772 stint into LHR(During the B744 gone AOG period) due to winds while BA's had no issue.

Sources from FY seems to indicate it would not be transferred anytime soon. FY will only receive 3-4 frames next year while this year it will be 0. But again MAG has always been known to flip flop quite a lot.

Issues with how most tech companies run is stuff from R&D should remain strictly closed doors out of public use and will take many years. But board and shareholders are pushing for experimental beta like stuff to hit the market prematurely as long sales starts kicking in. Consumers are technically the beta participants now with mandatory unskippable update patches that may bring more bugs than intended always rolling out.

The right candidate is between E2 and A220 but looking at how lukewarm these manufacturers have been in providing freebies unlike the 737/a320 program the uptake will remain poor now especially with the engine teething issues that will take years to stabilize.

Fernandes demands answers with airlines losing ‘millions’ in IT outage I think the entire grid of how microsoft runs needs an overhaul. Its scary that even the 911 dial system in certain parts of the US went offline and so as our local msian MRT and KTM systems having headache days ago. Now i am hearing certain non core essential systems running on the military have also gone offline in the US.

Crowdstrike cybersecurity firm says its software update triggered worldwide Microsoft IT outages In Malaysia Airasia and MAG were partly affected with check ins reverted to offline manual check in. Staffs having issues even retrieving or accessing rosters. Meanwhile several tech companies in msia are also affected.

Some of the Airbus owned frames will be coming in next year as well down to 2026.

I heard they are currently in midst of implementing Wifi IFE based system for the 737s sadly will not be extended to the 330. Though content wise dont expect anything better. Many distributors have hiked the rates for content made worse now with Forex related issue with MYR. Some like Disney and Sony entertainment have hiked nearly 200% with only universal entertainment being on the lower end. There are even more expensive ones like HBO that even established airlines are finding it hard to maintain the contract. Even MH has trimmed content significantly as a result with very slow rotation.

First A339 rego's been comfirmed as 9M-MNG continuing from the A380

Mvc's currently otw back just arrived at hnl.