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Believe Collins Diamond was the seat selected for the MAX 10 based on the brochure forms ive sighted months ago. Unfortunately the max 10 is in limbo until certification is sorted. MH main idea is to have 10 units of max 10s to be flown as the 2nd daily flight into India and Perth sector after the 330neos. Also it seems MH will retain the same economy class seats seen on the a350 for the 330neo. Difference will be a revised panasonic X ex2 IFE with bumped processor and resolution(Unlikely to be 4k though). One thing the article got it wrong or more likely the CEO was not telling the actual est entry of service for the 330neo.

Interesting its the Collins Aerospace Super Diamond selected for business class wonder whats the seat for economy.

In the case of Sabah pre pandemic PRC and Koreans are only accessing west coast beach and semporna for the islands. Sepilok, Danum, Tabin, lok kawi wildlife park is not their pallate. Former target crowd for Sepilok were formerly Japanese and Australians the same for Sarawak's Mulu with small numbers of europeans occasionally coming over. There was talk about setting up a haunted attraction for dark tourism also resulted in nothing as we barely attracted those kind of tourist. In the old days when i was working in a GA company they would talk how russians and european travelers would charter helicopter on on nearly daily basis for island hoping paying 10k per charter sheet most of them coming from MH and MI connecting flight and layang layang and sabah air would pick them up from the hotel all the way to the hangars. Some of them would be requesting for a direct flight towards danum valley or even all the way to semporna. Fast forward to today 90% of the bell 206 are sitting rotting and only remnants of the flying doctor as355 fleet are still active as the state has been targeting a different sub crowd. All in all We just lack the effort to push in the variety to support the economy. Even on youtube you would occasionally see youtubers on sponsored trip from thai and indonesia but Malaysia its mostly on self volunteer basis. Mark Wien's was invited to Singapore and Indonesia during the pandemic and his event was plastered all over discovery asia.

Budgeting is the main concern i am seeing. Operating expenses is only increased to account for inflation but never further up to try out new markets. Promotion materials are affected by this. I mean even Zoo Negara is dried up with no available expenses to upgrade the facilities hopelessly waiting for NGO, GLC donations. Its the same for sepilok took 10 years for them to beg state gov to finance and complete a jungle walk. Then there's the culture of Malaysia in buying fancy stuff but never planning on renewal and replacement. "If its working it aint broke" is not a good concept to use.

Need to ask our government what they have in mind. Family friendly oriented does not exactly attract farang youths who are eyeing on the night and wild scene. Lack of refined premium facilities also does not attract the high paying crowd some of these crowd are also flocking to our neighbours for the night scene. Even dark tourism(haunted places) was not well accepted by our locals and budget was not put forward to set it up. We haven't even gotten to how underfunded it is in protecting our wildlife diversity which irked quite a lot of aussies and japanese who were former visitors. Prcs have no interest in sepilok or danum. We have to contend that Malaysia is only attractive towards mass tourism as it requires very low effort in financing and will not try out wider array different groups.

Don't think we will receive any 330neo in q3. Late Q4 or mid november seems feasible. There were even speculations that we will receive 330neo ahead of the max 8 this is most likely false as well. The 4 units of max 8 even with delays will still be coming this year.

As a tech geek, the most likely scenario with nearly 200 connected devices, this would constrict the available bandwidth. Goodluck trying to get stable 5mbps connection on an a380 when this goes free. In the days of 4K and higher video bit rate streaming even dedicated 30mbps barely runs smoothly.

The A350s have advance the the signing stage from what i last heard 3 weeks ago. It now lies to cabin config selection and many pending things. Apparently they were 53 a359s from lessors up for grabs since mid march with deliveries(minus cabin plus depending on which production slots are kept by lessors) ready mid june to late november. Some slots are pricey but fully customizable some are very cheap but allows very limited configuration(e.g the 6x ex airberlin a332s). The only issue i see with MAG is everything is locked tight that outsiders and even employees are speculating as it feels that management have not been forthcoming. Unlikely we will see anything that early. At most the 330neo will be deployed on adhoc(nearby sectors less than 3hours on random rotation) for the first 2-3months with reservation only appearing 1 month in advance on the website. Even OD's A333s will be flown that way, overhead them planning Dhaka and domestics holiday seasons during the proving flight.

I've recalled seeing the Interested clients list from Bombardier when the project was announced in 2012. It includes Thai Smiles, Hong Kong Express, Bangkok Airways, Garuda, Lion Group, Mab, Firefly, Airasia Group, Scoot, PAL Express, Vietjet, Vietnam airlines. It basically looks like almost all of the asian carriers were keen. Even airasia was quite close to getting something signed in 2018 when Airbus tookover the CS series but decided to wait for more reliability reports from other carriers.

A220 is a very good plane and would've already snag a few orders from asean during launching if the cfm leap was an optional offering instead solely depending on the problematic pw 1500g. That engine has been a headache and it seems to operate like a beta state product.

Some pictures for the proving flight. It seems we may see them plying into KK and Kuching for Kaamatan and Gawai brief period before flying them internationally by late June.

Malindo a333 proving flight will be arriving later eta 11.10am etd 12.30.

We have seen the likes of "cant afford dont buy"/ "buy early why wait" being discussed everywhere. But I've seen colleagues and relatives who literally cant and never will get leaves approved for holiday seasons unless they change profession or leave. Where do these folks go apart from contributing to the brain drain. You also have to accept that the airline potentially screwing up with "retiming/reschuling" will be the norm as well. LimA 2023 dates were never fix 6months ahead like it used to and we have stories of homestays cancelling peoples advance booking and hiking up the rates once the dates were confirmed.

Sceptical on the mechanism. You need to buy 3 days before holiday season. But we all know people will binge buy tickets at inflated rate weeks to months before travel date hence seat availability may actually be little. Gov to block 12 seats per a320/738 for this? Also the from the article "As of May 17, Loke said there was a remainder of 17,708 flight tickets from Peninsular Malaysia to Sabah and Sarawak. “There were 8,903 tickets to Sabah and 8,805 tickets to Sarawak,” he said." Its very likely maybe only 10% of such tickets will be subsidized from the looks of it. Those wanting the rm300 ticket its gonna be tough actually getting them.

Last recall od downsizing their atr operations. The 737 routes to south asia were more lucrative than expanding the turboprops head on with Fy and fighting east msia against airasia. Now coupled with additional feeder services to australia, Od has found its nice sustainable spot.

Hm seems to mention 277seats capable of 6350nmi range. So they're planning to reconfigure to that config in the future?

Aerotrain replacement underway, one rail line on track to operate next year - MAHB Article Eta June 2024 one track. I give maybe 3-6months more of additional delays by malaysian standards.

Its pretty much the standard to always give way to crew and charter based guests first everywhere there's no need for signs. The only thing i see here is the lawyer as usual is not happy that certain groups(at most 17pax for the aw-139 helicopter) can bypass queueing the immigration. Well he is in for a rough ride if he is in the US.

Latest exhibit Lawyer asks why O&G workers allowed to cut queue at Miri Airport https://www.theborneopost.com/2023/05/10/lawyer-asks-why-og-workers-allowed-to-cut-queue-at-miri-airport/ All O&G helicopter operators have their own inhouse ground support team and avsec. Prescreening immigration checks are also done landside unlike commercial passengers. So why this lawyer is all chalked up or are passengers so offended nowadays.

Garuda has already replaced their seats on some of the 738s with a different model. Most airlines undergo refurbishing once the seat has hit certain cycle for full service within 10 years. Even MASWings twin otter viking have already replaced the original delivered seats that came with the aircraft using recycled material from unused b772 and B744 seats. I do have to agree though the new seats that airline are refurbishing to are just there for revenue increase not to improve comfort. Cant source back the old original seat models anymore unless it was 5 years ago. Even the old seats under Haeco that MH took with 9M-MXA onwards the current Model is Haeco economy and is reported to be 1inch thinner in cushioning and 36% lighter. https://www.timco.aero/content/haeco-cabin-solutions-vector-economy.html There's an even thinner model called Haeco light. https://www.timco.aero/content/haeco-cabin-solutions-vector-light-0.html Almost 92% of the airline industry opted the lighter seats in exchange of adding more rows of seats very tiny numbers of operator resorted to retaining the same amount of seats as per pre refusbish config. 160 seater b738 was the norm in 2010, in 2023 more than half of 738 operators full service carriers are changing to 178 2 class cabin. Even Airbus tossed the idea with space flex galley and toilet redesign in 2013 for the a320 series which from a 148 norm 2 class to a now 166 2 class config or 188 1 class.

Pretty common for LHR With social media and tik tok on about airlines are pressured to give useless statements explaining aviation terms that normal people would not understand. Just weeks ago airasia had an air turnback that required holding and some local city council cinabeng could not understand why they had to hold and was confused of air pressurization issue not being the main point to the tech fault. https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2023/05/03/airasia-passengers-up-in-arms-after-china-flight-scare Infact even Ryanairs nasty hard landings are by the books.

The old seat model under Haeco brand were under circa 2007 selection will no longer in production within 2024. by 2019 most of the economy class seats offered by manufacturers nowadays are slimline light with only minor customization applicable to postering skin type, headrest, arm rest length, recline angle. The sad thing is even cushion padding for business class got thinner by average on the last survey check done by qatar airways and singapore airlines product department and they have a hard time deciding.

Flew with tbe cabin twice. My moms ipad pro kept disconnecting while my android phone was connected. Then somehow they rebooted the thing and my phone kept disconnecting and the ipad maintained connection. Only good part of the intranet ife is it easier to skip parts of the movie/tv show previously the panasonic ife seeking was very laggy. GUI is also a lot better on android chrome and ios safari browser than the previous panasonic. Another issue is they seem to only enable the wifi at 30000feet above and they turn it off 10minutes after descent. So if it were a 1hour 30minute flight you're probably subjected to only 30-45minutes worth of ife content with the other parts of the flight without wifi during climb and descent. The procedure needs a complete overhaul. Seat wise not much to complain as i got more knee room than the previous cabin. So far i flew a 1 hour 30minute flight and another 2 hours 15 minutes on economy. Not sure how i will tolerate on a 4hour flight though.

After PMX approval 'Sarawak-owned airline to start operations after acquiring four planes' KUCHING: Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg today said the state’s boutique airline will begin operations after it has acquired aircraft. He said the airline will acquire at least four turboprop planes, each with a seating capacity of 120 passengers, that will be operating within the region. https://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/211682/sarawak-owned-airline-to-start-operations-after-acquiring-four-planes-/ Have yet to hear any turboprop aircrafts capable of handling 120 passengers single class. The Q400 is 90 pax and the atr72 is 78. Either he is hearing wrong info or he was babbling. Even the C130 can only carry 92 passengers. More than that requires removing seats.

Yea that was the plan. Super app will be a it based e commerce+aggregator ecosystem listing all sort of stuff to sell from food, hotels, air tickets etc. Ak d7 and other airline subsidiaries airasia group will then be selling tickets on it exclusively or something like that. Too ambitious honestly.