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Airasia will be unveiling 1 special A320 livery with an event scheduled for BKI on December 4th if anyone is interested to spot.
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12 minutes ago, flee said:MVD made a flight today: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/9MMVD
Is this the beginning of the delivery process?
Should be part of the acceptance flight. Delivery planned on dec 4th now. Supposed to be 2 days ago i recall based on old scheduling 1 month ago.
Some of the schedules listed on aeroroutes
Malaysia Airlines during the week of 30OCT23’s schedule update filed additional changes to its planned Boeing 737 MAX 8 operation, for Northern winter 2023/24 season. As of 14NOV23, latest update to the carrier’s planned 737 MAX service as follows.
Kuala Lumpur – Kota Kinabalu eff 20NOV23 2 daily (3 daily from 04DEC23)
Kuala Lumpur – Kuching eff 04JAN24 1 daily
Kuala Lumpur – Miri eff 04DEC23 1 daily
Kuala Lumpur – Penang eff 04JAN24 1 daily
Kuala Lumpur – Phuket eff 04JAN24 1 dailyIt is likely the Miri(MH2584) and the 3rd daily KK(MH2610)flight to be using the usual 737-800 on dec4th. Aircraft delivered on 4th december they'll surely be a period of it sitting in the hangar pending checks before handing off for commercial operations. Meanwhile websites still selling them as 737-8 on dec 4th.
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11 hours ago, KK Lee said:For domestic sector, there shouldn't need regulatory approval. the more regulatory, the more corruption and the higher cost.
How many times deregulation have screwed up multiple essential industries and given us subpar or greedy profit driven products and services. Deregulation of the banking and finance industry cause a few mortgage and financial crisis in the past.
While MAVcom is inefficient and should be consolidated into CAM since day 1 i see certain checks are still needed especially domestic where it is still under the sensitive essential services. Its stupid to allow anyone to come in and pull out less than 3 months into the operation. Even Japan, Indonesia and thai domestic air travels are subjected to route permits from regulators.
https://iclg.com/practice-areas/aviation-laws-and-regulations/japan
https://iclg.com/practice-areas/aviation-laws-and-regulations/thailand
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MVD delivery slightly delayed to dec4th. Passengers who booked with the original intention to try them out on the Miri and 3rd daily KK flight on dec 4th are unlikely to experience the aircraft. Also it seems MVB may be coming in this late dec though still no photographs from any spotters at Renton.
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16 hours ago, flee said:I wonder what happens to the lease payments when this kind of Aog happens?
Still ongoing regardless how broken or inefficient an aircraft is the lease tnc is tnc tenure u need to abide. Though i suspect no parking charges as the aircrafts are parked on MAG ground around the hangar vicinity which is not under MAHB.
As for the 6 MH A350 those are probably due for C checks and the new recommendation and AD by airbus on the SSA probe and probably more unspecified stuffs for older frames is also stuff that is fairly common in the airline industry. Last time MH also got the same restriction on the 6 A380 dugongs that needed inspection that they had to quickly dig out 1 B747-400 as a standby aircraft but in the end they manage to ease their way out without needing the 747 in actual deployment. The a350 though may be a bit more tight as i think the airline deploys them more often around its network than the A380 which back then has been only doing LHR with seasonal ICN,NRT back then.
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3 hours ago, Craig said:I understand the frustration of passengers getting stuck in a foreign airport but some of them need to calm down.
Unless her parents are wanted by India, they are probably safe on the ground somewhere. And India isn't one of those countries that passengers can just waltz into (especially if you or one your parents have Pakistan background) and like most developing countries, require a lot of paperwork.
I think passengers nowadays are just too naive. People are pushing for mass frequencies and affordable flying but they never thought to have all the convenience one must have the contingency *s#1t happens scenario* planned in replacement except usually there is none. Also many still holding the karen complex whenever there's an inconvenience. Some abruptly having short visits only to throw tantrum when the airline screws up their appointment like the SQ A380 stuck at gate scenario a while ago. Flying costs have not gone down but majority would just look at the other side.
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13 hours ago, JuliusWong said:9M-MAB is grounded to have its SSA probes removed. The process requires the airframe to be grounded for a long period.
The other 5 frames would probably be in queue for the long maintenance process as well. Looks like the airline would be operating 6 a350 for many months if thats the case even with MAH delivered. In the end still 350 constrained lol.
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39 minutes ago, JuliusWong said:Yes, they will cancel your flight a week before the actual date due to low load and offer you option to either move the flight a day earlier to next available flight. Or you can opt for not-to-seen again refund.
Their target markets are often those pissed off at MH for being too expensive "but-soon-no-more-IFE, horrible-plastic-meal and only-10kg-for-cheapest fare" and AK for always nickel-and-dime and "cancelling and delaying" but yet want cheap ticket with maximum benefit. LOL. I am joking. They know they can be cheap as AK, but network is not as wide with high frequency as AK, and they can't fight with premium airline MH. So their selling point is cheapest fare with free 20kg luggage, sort of like Southwest in the US. Best of both worlds I guess. Their inflight meal ain't cheap cost an eye watering RM25 for a nasi lemak!
Their Taiwan-Japan vv are mainly tour groups from Taiwan and Japan. Denpasar to Australian routes obviously to target the Aussies going to Denpasar for weekend getaway. Pakistan route cause no one else from Malaysia dare to do it due to safety reason........Istanbul and Uzbekistan they will have the first mover advantage. Istanbul will be a hit with Muslim community especially.
As for advertisement, yes we rarely see one within Malaysia. The only one I can remember was the one after toll at ELITE highway heading to the airport. The ad is no longer there now. They have a huge billboard in AKL though.
For those B737 without proper J class seat, they will block the middle seat to be quasi J class like those European airlines. Tough luck you paid RM2000 for J class but get a Y class seat. Batik Air is low cost value airline...LOL, not sure what that means.
MAG and AAGB would also cancel flights or reschedule a lot nowadays. It aint like it used to be before.
OD's IFE content is also only 20-30% in entertainment content volume compared to other asean peers. Licensing for movie content from multiple studios is pricey. Also more than half of the 737s delivered are without IFE or with IFE but no contents installed. The pissed off MH crowd probably is not OD's main appetite as well the main appetite is the south asian transit market some small splinter aussies which the carrier is leveraging on now since no one else bothers about it.
The only plus side i can see they probably will be the only 738/737-8 carrier(shared with batik indonesia) in asean to have an advantage in more legroom.
All in all its a give take in most carriers. Same same but diff diff.
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Efforts to bring home stranded passengers in Mumbai still ongoing: MAS
QuoteKUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is trying its level best to bring back passengers who have been stranded in Mumbai, due to an unforeseen rerouted flight bound for Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Friday (November 24).
The airline’s group communications unit, in a reply to Scoop today, confirmed that flight MH165, which was scheduled to arrive in KLIA after a layover in Doha on Thursday (November 23), was rerouted to Mumbai International Airport (BOM).
They also confirmed that the redirection was due to unforeseen technical issues onboard, where the primary focus during the incident was on ensuring the passengers’ and aircraft’s safety.
9M-MTN gone aog since late nov 23rd. Saw some circular on twitter pax got fed up and quarrel only for the indian police to be dispatched over. 2 nights and no rebooking or rescue aircraft is slow.
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2 hours ago, Craig said:If Semporna islands are charging RM300-1200 per person per night, they better be clean and sanitary, but most of the time, they aren't. There are a few resorts on the islands that I can tell they cater exclusively to the Chinese tourists (either as day trips from Semporna or overnight stays on the island), so much so that another European couple and I felt very out of place at this island. It was very different from say 10 years ago when I went there and those islands caters mostly to locals and Europeans. I can't imagine a resort that relies 90% of their revenue from one market, because if anything happens to China, they will lose significant amount of revenue.
That's if the government allows the airline to hike 200-500% during a long weekend/festive season 😅. People in Malaysia don't realize how subsidized our living is and any new taxes / subsidy removal / price increase will almost always end up in a call for government intervention.
How do we promote our country? Well, we need to do damage control first. Politicians need to stop making a mountain out of a molehill on social issues like alcohol, dress code in public, concerts etc. I can't think of a single country that discusses this in parliament. And worse, even some Malaysians are confused by it and will warn tourists not to wear shorts in Langkawi or that you can't order alcohol in a restaurant or hotel for example. Europe and US are way more socially progressive than Malaysia but Middle Eastern tourists have no problem visiting those countries. Even countries like UAE/KSA is trying to portray themselves as a socially progressive country where as in reality it's not. But it's the perception that matters.
I am more concern if they let in many flights but facilities are scarce you would see room rate hikings across. It was one of the issue langkawi faces stupidly high prices but so so offering by their resort only for them to suffer now with a tremendous low season recently. The same yoyo effect may be in for East Coast Sabah if it solely relies on mass tourism from one specific market.
The gov's go to whenever people complains of pricey ticket is to take a rotan stick and beat up the airlines with statements like *TAMBAH FLIGHT LA APA SUSAH?*. Yea lets surplus the seats by the double to tripple but when holiday season is over where do we send the excess aircrafts? So far AAGB and MAG do not operate flexible seasonal flights and our govs ability to procure such flexible slots overseas has been abysmal. Same time allowing dodgy startups run by millionaire when we all know airlines are usually started by giant conglomerate or billionaires(still with very high failure rates) thinking the market will fix itself.
Currently i am not sure if this unity gov can steer itself independently. It has been waving the carrot sticks trying to appeal the conservatives and the other side while doing poor populist moves that irked either side no matter what it does and its pretty much all in vain.
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26 minutes ago, BC Tam said:For 9M-MXE, it's probably because she was stranded at BKI during past five days for some reason or another ..... 😀
There was one 738 stuck at the hangar at BKI. Should be MXE.
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1 minute ago, flee said:Well I think competing with LCCs does not only mean competing on price only. There are so many other aspects of competition that can be addressed. We see Scoot and Singapore Airlines as well as Jetstar and Qantas managing to secure their own businesses without hurting each other. As I said before, FY and MH should be complementing one another and competing in the market together in a coordinated manner. Right now FY just get thrown some crumbs from MH and does not seem to have its own development plans. This is not sustainable!
Well Singapore already has the upperhand when it comes to forex and currency not to mention Passenger yield as well.
If MH and FY were to do coordination yields must be there. You cant ask MH to let go half of its flights to FY on the same destination you dont even see SQ deploying flights with scoot on quite a few routes. Those were offloaded in its entirety to scoot something firefly does not even have enough aircraft to do so.
Mag currently does not have enough finances to procure proper amount of aircrafts to facilitate FY's expansion unlike our neighbors. Thai smiles was also reabsorbed back into thai airways.
Then on the transfer of flights currently even FY does not allow multi sector check in, many present pending stuff have yet to be addressed.
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2 hours ago, flee said:I think MAG needs to re-strategise their Firefly operations. Right now, it is like the stepchild of MAG.
For this they need to look at how SQ group splits the businesses between SQ and TR and perhaps emulate their business model. FY should have bold plans of its own as its competitor is Capital A airlines. They should complement MH instead of getting hand me down routes to operate. They should pioneer innovative LCC routes and they should order their own aircraft and not just take MH hand me downs.
People have been asking MAG to go head to head with the LCC market using its subsidiaries but the problem is the market in Malaysia especially for domestic has been very cut throat. Going for basement fares for multiple months and then hiking up to crazy 200-500% when seats a scarce during peak season to make up for the poor seasons. Airlines are not flexible enough to redact seats and increase seats out of the blue based on demands nobody is also operating spare aircrafts nowadays.
It still goes back to how this country is promoting itself and improving the economy. At the current pace its heading even duopoly operations is not sustainable for both groups.
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1 hour ago, Craig said:I'd have thought something like SDK/TWU-PVG/CAN or BKI-NKG/HGH, a tertiary city to a primary city but a tertiary city to another tertiary city is wow. Guess Chinese must love the seafood in Tawau/Sandakan. There aren't really major resorts in either. Most island resorts fit about 20-40 rooms max, if they even have such big resorts. I saw a lot of tourists staying in Semporna too but that place is rancid.
Are we expecting to see KUL-TGG/KUA/AOR completely dropped? Or maybe the new narrobody order taking over?
Yes accommodation facilities at east coast Sabah is poor. So not sure how is the plan viable for airlines in the long run. For SDK there's only Four points reopening and Semporna its either overpriced tiny resorts at the sea or low budget homestays. No big chains 4-5 stars anywhere.
The thing is FY only plans to operate bases from BKI and PEN. No mention of KUL nor SZB for the 737s. So sectors like KUL-KBR, KUL-TGG, KUL-JHB etc will either be maintained by MH or dropped with no replacement this one is up to MAG to see.
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45 minutes ago, Craig said:Is there a typo on MAVCOM's October ATR bulletin? FY applied for 3 weekly TWU-NKG services? Not BKI, not PVG/CAN/HKG but from a tertiary city to another? Unless there's a spike in ocean delicacy demand in NKG that I am unaware of.
Seasonal scheduling that was suppose to start early next year if not for the delays due to lack of aircraft. SDK direct china is also being thought of. FY's focus market for Sabah will be oriental while PEN will be ASEAN.
Meanwhile the Domestic takeover of 1 to 1 from MAB's non domestic trunk routes which was hinted at during MCO will now rather be lackluster takeover as the market has been diluted by ak's dominance that duopoly operations is also not sustainable. You might expect to see some routes let go by MAG with no replacement or rather a replacement but severe capacity drop.
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looks like 9M-DAF is wearing the same hybrid paint now. That makes it 2 former myairline a320 transferred to airasia.
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Some images from 9M-MVA's first commercial flight.
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7 hours ago, JuliusWong said:Good news! Apparently they will receive another three additional B737 MAX 8 next week.
Only likely to get 1 more for this year or if extremely lucky 2. An aircraft out of assembly will usually take 1 month of trials and customer acceptance flight. So far 5 frames have registration booked but only 2 photographed outside with 1 already delivered yesterday.
The person who wrote article must've misheard or got the older info during the event. From what i am seeing only MVD will be delivered without delays.
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1 hour ago, Craig said:The whole SARP banked on SKS and MAG's SZB plans? I'd have thought they invited AK/OD along as well.
Fares ex-SZB are generally 20-50% higher for the same airline group ex-SZB. And let's not forget other regional carriers who may be interested to serve SZB as an O&D (SQ Group comes to mind).
They did but it seems AK is waiting it out. As for OD they have no interest in regional jet operations. Currently MAG's SZB regional jet operation will not even involve FY. If SKS exits that means theres vacant space for another half. Only issue pulling back now is the reliability issue pertaining the PW leaps affecting both a220 and e2s.
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20 minutes ago, Craig said:I am curious how does SKS survive during the northeast monsoon when those islands are pretty much closed. They could fly to Pangkor but I guess the demand is pretty low as it's somewhat accessible by cars easily compared to Redang and Tioman.
SKS had a very reliable funder. But like Myairlines i think the appetite to keep pouring funds on an empty barrel continuously in hoping the market or something changes into their favor is not really how an aviation business is suppose to run. If the SKS e jet program collapses it may derail part of the gov's plan on SZB unless MAG is willing to stay on and follow up its plan.
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SKS Airways hits snag in funding for aircraft, temporarily halts flights to Tioman, Redang
KUALA LUMPUR: New airline SKS Airways Sdn Bhd is scrambling to secure funding to pay for the delivery of 10 leased Embraer E195-E2 aircraft and is believed to have halted flight operations to two of the destinations it flies to, Tioman and Redang, according to an aviation insider.
SKS AIrways was to start taking delivery of the first Embraer aircraft in January 2024.
On another note they were suppose to have launch 1-2 former firefly ATR's 2 months ago but none of the aircrafts have even undergone painting. Hoping this does not become another flymojo.
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42 minutes ago, Craig said:So it's more of a LCY/HLP instead of a HND/SHA. Assuming SKS takes delivery all of its 10 E2s on order, there won't be much RON parking room left for AK/MH/FY/OD plus foreign carriers? I remember vaguely they announced that it was meant to accommodate jets up to 320/737 or has that now changed.
Something from MAG might be stirring up for SZB and its not something most would expect thats all i could say. It has something to do with probably 1/3 of the open ended 35 narrowbody order thingy(not included the 10 widebody which technically cant fit in szb) that the group plans to order. It is not going to be the 160-180 seater 737/320.
16 minutes ago, Alif A. F. said:I would be excited if non-stop flights from East Malaysia to SZB reinstated (by any airline) as an alternative to KUL. If that happens, can potentially saves us travellers extra MYRs on ground transport to KL.
There will be domestic flights just don't expect it to be multi frequency nor cheaper tickets than going to KUL. I think Loke mentioned they envisioned SZB more towards the premium side and its main aim is to connect ASEAN.
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Former myairline 9M-DAB spotted in hybrid airasia livery.
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4 hours ago, Craig said:I saw the fleet page on Going Places and it didn't mention wifi on the 7M8. I hope those will get external wifi too.
IIRC, the Subang Airport Redevelopment Plan (SARP) was supposed to be completed within 3 years (or was it supposed to begin within 3 years, which if that's the case, nothing will come to fruition until 2035?). Current T3 doesn't seems to be able to cope with the planned extra capacity. Anthony Loke mentioned that the Subang Skylink (KTM) will be revived once SZB realizes it full potential (I guess they aren't really moving far away from T3 then?).
I think i saw a circular by MH a while ago and a new strait times article. Internet Wifi to be installed on the 737-800 on later stages. As for the max 8 those are delivered fitted with and u can see the hump dome on the fuselage probably needs some configuration by engineering before the wifi is introduced.
Some of the airlines recent townhall plans regarding SZB operations in the future might shock quite a few. I dont think i can state it out here. It will probably a few months after when more direct announcements by proper channels have been made instead.
Overall from what i see SZB reconfiguration and redevelopment will not be for big operation like 30 narrowbody combined parking as what some people might've assume.
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Apparently the livery is to honor a important person from Sabah.