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Believe the range has been reduced by 200nmi or more due to some fuel tank pipping concern. A321NEO 3500nmi A321NEO LR 4000nmi(addition of 3 external fuel tanks) A321NEO XLR 4700nmi(on top of 3 external fuel tanks the main fuel tank is enlarged, strengthened main gear to support extra weight)(safety concerns with fuel pipping planned reduction to 4500nmi instead) Ranges are for configuration of 206-220 passengers. D7's high density config may actually hinder a large number of the range by almost 500nmi. Meanwhile Airasia's a321neo range seems to hover around 3000nmi with 240 passengers without the extra fuel tanks.

TPE is an occasional cargo heavy segment for MH mainly carrying electronics for the A330 and fresh goods for the 738. Once in a while they'll be medical equipment, construction material and agricultural related equipment and livestock feed. There's a report that some of the flights could make profit with just 30% passenger load as long the special cargo consignment is consistently above 9tonnes per flight for widebody and it has still been the case. Other similar sectors in terms of cargo are NRT, PVG, and PEK. Then there's also then shoopee lazada parcels but those are usually carried by other airlines as well. The B772's are a fuel gauzzler for todays aviation with the only advantage over the A330 being the range and crew bunk design for long haul or to max out the payload cargo which in today's market not many airlines are willing to do unless they're a dedicated freight operator like fedex dhl. The A359 has a near 17% cost advantage over the b777. Another additional advantage is on the A330 and B789. The issue back then with old MH via Maskargo, there were not keen to do low volume passenger belly segment frequently on the 734s and old a333s etc. I think it was only 2012 that there were attempts to gradually overhaul to what we got today especially with all the certification and rating. They cant rely solely on assembling up cargo when the volume suffice and then to slot them on the dc10f, b747fs, a300f to do the cargo. Nowadays the volume is smaller but more frequent rarely exceeding 20tonnes on each flights. Its one of the reasons why there was a downturn where SQ trim out a large number of B747converted freighters while MH disposes the 2 b744fs. The Covid pandemic also taught many airlines the importance of P2C and certifying large variety of stuff to carry.

Slots are limited for some of the sectors. 240 pax vs 377 can make a lot of difference on peak timing.

9M-VVA seems to be prepped again for BKI after months of hibernation.

No brainer seeing MEL and SYD runway length was temporary shorten to something about 2000meters(shorter than the extended runway at Sandakan 2500meters) occasionally on certain daytime periods. An aircraft needing to do flights of more than 4hours plus fully loaded with passengers would be risking overrun plus bonus risk if ground temperature exceeds 30c.

Standard Autopilot position the gov will have. "This is a dispute between 2 commercial party we will not interfere." Consumers and frontline staffs will just bear the brunt. On another note, Hot meals expected to come in month end however don't expect proper meals. None of the vendors(except Post aviation, Santan, Brahim) can cleanup cutlery none of the other vendors are expected to take certification for it due to cost. Enjoy having business class meal on disposable paper plates. Selection on all classes will also be limited due to meal volume constraint. Also the disruption will persist steadfast 6months unless someone concedes defeat ahead of schedule lol.

Gov too afraid to tinker up a bit with opening. A simple belly dance or stress crazed dance in IPTA grounds have already irked the local green wave that has been pushed to be more vocal by their local respective ulama's. Striving to avoid being too excessively conservative and excessively liberal seems to be on none of the politicians agenda. This "malaysia is only catered to family friendly" oriented tourism is not gonna last long term unless a replacement(mass manufacturing export, agriculture export plus food security, corporatism) is called in for the potential loss of neglecting other tourism segment and severely little to no marketing.

Yes slightly better in quality and a lot more variety than what the actual Plaza premium lounge serves and an improvement over MAS Awana's serving in the Golden Lounge. It shows Plaza Premium can actually put up a good selection in their own lounges but only opted to do so for external third party contract catering.

MAG willing to bear short-term pain as it vows to take on legacy contract MAG group managing director Datuk Captain Izham Ismail said its negotiation with BFS for an extension of the contract started in November last year, "but it was going nowhere". "We couldn't come (to an agreement), knowing the fact that BFS has a monopoly in the local in-flight catering market,” Izham said, adding that the contract terms with BFS were "lopsided". According to him, MAG had in its negotiation with BFS requested for a new clause where MAG will have a contractual right to terminate the agreement for any reason. “However, that negotiation is off the table now. To a certain extent, we had succumbed to a partner who is operationally inefficient and who tried to make margins by raising meals and handling charges to cover their inefficiency. So is it fair? “We don't cook at all. There is no kitchen. And we don't have the expertise to cook meals in bulk. What our eight F&B suppliers do is cook the meals at their own facility, transport them to us, and all we do at the distribution centre is stack and distribute the food items [according to the flights] and then uplift them onboard the aircraft. Our suppliers don't have the licence and vehicles to load the meals into the aircraft.” we had our ground handling subsidiary AeroDarat Services Sdn Bhd procure 20 catering high lifts. We currently have four high lifts [which is insufficient].” “The first 10 catering high lifts will be delivered in the third week of September and the remaining 10 will come next month. With the delivery of the catering high lifts, we will improve our hot food offerings,” he said. The catering high lift is designed to carry and load containers with airline food for passengers. Looks like the rough ride is up to October at least. Even past that meal consistency and offering is not up to mark until a proper vendor comes in. Service consistency is only when Brahim takeover or something similar to Brahim in terms of volume and production plan comes in. Another rumor about 2 more foreign airlines in KLIA may also be suspending its contract with Brahim and opting temporary catering in around November.

Most of the food and beverages in the Golden Lounge been recently switched to Plaza Premium.

Those snack boxes are there because non of the vendors are authorised to even cleanup the plates and utensils and are probably a trial run as well before actual exit. So its resorting to disposableware something that can be dispose immediately. Mas Awana was taken out of lounge meal duty is also in prep for this prompt exit but this company is not well equipped in certain license such as vehicle operation and so. I believe it was only early this year that MH knew Brahim would not budge in a peaceful takeover nor approve another set of catering contract renegotiation. The prompt exit from what i see from my point of view is an attempt to let Brahim die of hunger to let them know they cant survive with a loss of 20k meal uplift and as a result will force brahim to agree with what they put on the table in terms of takeover pricing.

Sure but my info needs a bit of adjustment after ive watched this below From the looks of it some of the extra info. 1998 to 2003 MAS Catering left a RM230mil debt hole that Brahim tookover. With no experience in airline catering Brahim was asked to join with LSG Skychef. MAS retains 30% share and signs 25 year contract with limited tinkering available during tenure. 2011 MH then CEO AJ who just came in noted the catering contract sign is a huge mess and misstep for MAS as a whole. 2013 Previous losses made by Mas Catering overturned and profit starts coming in for Brahim catering's revenue as a whole. Same time nationalization effort the gov forced Brahim to absorb the remaining shares LSG holds. LSG begrudgingly let go the remaining shares after Brahim paid them. 2014 MH twin tragedies. 2015 MAS act came in catering contract cancelled and redo with 40-50% cut with renamed airline MAB. 5+5 year deal with 1st phase renewal in 2020. SATS came in for 49% stake in Brahim tries some reorganization effort and investment opportunities in Malaysia aviation catering industry. 2016 SATS acquires 49% for RM220 mil. 2018 Further revision Catering contract pricing for MAB. Brahim begins to bleed. Should be the time where the regional economymeal has been reduced to RM18 per head. 2020 Pandemic from 50k meal uplift capability down to just 1k meals served per day. Further losses. MAB forces Brahim to sign new deal but for 3+3year meaning 2023 renew contract 2022 SATS disposes its 49% stake for RM10mil from the original. Brahim enters PN17. late 2022 Brahim informs MH they'll be a 30% increase in catering cost due to inflation. MAG argues other vendors have been able to keep cost near competitive. Brahim offers MAG to buyover the remaining shares for RM219mil. External audit deems Brahim only worth not more than RM50-60mil ringgit. Brahim argues MH owes them RM70mil meanwhile MH argues Brahim owes them nearly RM20mil for poor meal quality . Early 2023 MH starts preparing the catering mishap INADEQUATELY. mid 2023 MH promptly exits the catering contract without following any exit clause. Khazanah told them to follow the exit clause with at least 2months notice.

New info on catering fiasco Mh needs about 20k+- meals per day just for KUL -Brahim able to uplift 52k with about 10k reserved for foreign airlines. -Pos aviation currently able to uplift only 1.1k-1.5k meals for mh -mas awana able to uplift 6-10k meals but not authorised to enter airside ramp nor operate catering truck as they don't have license. -MAG currently only has 8 catering vans/vans able to enter airside. -MAG ordered 20 new catering trucks around march this year still haven not arrive. -6 other vendors also not authorised to enter airside or operate catering vehicles. So what happens with the delays is meals are being uplifted using aerobridge to slot in food causing delay. While there's only authorised 8 trucks capable of meal lifting just for kul and some from pos aviation. Some of the pricing issues Brahim regional catering charge issue Pak lah days regional charge u get rm50-70 for a economy class nasi lemak plus 25 years of very long contract. 2012 Ahmad Jauhari adjusted lowered but not significant. 2014 Mas to Mab with MAS act enforce price lowered to rm30. 2018 another revision lowered to rm18 Late 2022 brahim inform MH that it need increase by 30% from the rm18 but maintain same serving quality. Ingredient inflation by pandemic bas been cited as the reason for the cost increase. Mag was not happy citing MAS awana and santan can efficiently do a lower rate but Brahim has said it is still lower than the rates Suvarnabhumi and Changi charges. Also MAG was not happy that as per external financial evaluation Brahim should not be bought over for than RM50mil but brahim is adamant on selling for RM190mil. MAG Decides for hostile takeover.

Its basically 2 egotistical company that felt they've been conned by each other. 1 angry being conned by a severe bad contract since early 2000s. The other angry that the catering contract has been cut and adjusted few times now down to low ball level being unsustainable to the company as a whole and the main client decides to run off cause they could not agree to the buyover rate for years. Now they're just waiting to see who will mati katak first. Meanwhile passengers and frontline staffs are on the receiving end of this stupid mess. The longer this drags on gradually this becomes a national embarrassment. There was another rumor on about that renewing the contract with brahim would mean another 3 years with them. It just so happens mid this year was the day to renew and the gov ask MAG to extend a further 2 month exit clause.

Since when did Malaysia effectively organized things effectively and collectively. You would think Santan was willing to block 40% of its production for MAG? Note they have contacted many times even prior to pandemic and after as well. The industry here its every man for himself while the gov is on autopilot. Stuff that do not need an inch of tinkering they tinker but stuff in need of dire intervention is left out to rot. No one even bothered to expand Pos Aviation catering when Brahim was having problems.

Seems they contracted all foreign stations to cater the meals now for the time being. No more return flight catered is an obvious thing unless one wants to have bread and fruit on both legs lol. Exceptions for domestic for flights leaving BKi KCH which has its own catering from mas awana.

Nope they're unable to supply adequately unless an expansion is made on their end. As for other central kitchens there's certain standard guidelines that you need to follow. You also cant simply out of the blue contract 7e, mcd and family mart unless certain certs and procurement policy has been set. Ana's domestic inflight serving of KFC for example the meals are prepped very differently than kfc Japan's meals on the restaurant as one example. Ba's one off kfc meal was an emergency dispensory and waivered.

Regional flights some were given banana, bread on business class. Some were given rm30-70 vouchers to spend at klia. Some were unaffected as the flights got fully correctly catered especially for long haul. Then there's those on shorter flights being catered by pos aviation totally unaffected. The main issue is these alternative caterings combined do not have the volume to supply all the flights. Note most of them already started preparing 2 months ago but as u can see issues still persist. It may get slightly more consistent and stable in a few weeks later. There's rumor that the transition period will take up to 6months(not exactly confidence building). Instead of extending the contract with brahim until takeover. They rather outright exit promptly.

SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms Clearing up 16mil native trees and planting more than 16mil low value trees with poor carbon absorb type is not exactly a proper way of replacing 1 to 1 same with us replacing them with palm tree.

The notion that Eco tourism tends to be leaning towards the left ideals is not exactly true either. Most of the market eco tourism is after the nature outback tours. My former training place and its competitor back then occasionally had Russian heli charter flying in all the way to danum valley. There's also many sub category like cultural tourism, special interest tourism, Dark tourism(visiting haunted places supposedly). Renewable energy sounds good but like EV the process of setting such is still not environmentally friendly nor a stable platform much like most of the Go Green/ESG Gimmick i've been seeing circulating in the aviation industry. Recall somewhere up north of Europe chopping of millions of trees to build up wind turbine farms when external research shows loosing those trees is already more carbon damaging than using up some coal. Solar on the other hand does not provide adequate power cannot be used as a 1 to 1 replacement and can only be used a mild additional surplus/offset in power to lower coal/nuclear consumption. Note Sabah is only generating approx 1200MW(short of 1300MW to include manufacturing industry). The state needs 2800MW. Meanwhile Sarawak after the construction of the dam along with other power plants has a supply of nearly 6000MW and Semenanjung itself has a stable 25000MW output. Sarawak with 6000MW is already loaning some of the excess power to Kalimantan and Brunei as state income. Sabah originally had a dam project that was heavily protested in 2013 around Papar. Fast forward to today it was relocated to Tenom and again heavily protested.

+1 for me but still it should not be something to be thrown out completely. The issue msia does not engage in a wider area of tourism draw it is still stuck within "mass tourism" and "family oriented" which is not enough to keep the local job market afloat bundled with very with weak marketing budget and product placement. A small funding catered to eco tourism has started but facilities have not been build and with Malaysian culture we'll build something fancy expensive and then it would not be maintained nor replaced. Another issue i am seeing not sure why but it seems even locals are not keen on Sabah Sarawak increasing its manufacturing capabilities citing risk building these stuff out will irk the tourist away due environmental drawbacks. In the case of Sabah the current electricity supply is also not enough for local consumption but locals heavily hated the idea of building dams or coal power plant asking for very expensive wind turbines and solar at an entirely unsuitable terrain topography design and being completely oblivious that your local youths are leaving to find jobs elsewhere plus complaining about the constant power outtage knowing the state grid power supply is insufficient.

Looks like catering disruption already affecting a few mh flights out of KUL with delays today. Imagine if the catering ended 2 months ago as what was originally intended.

Definitely will be close to each other except CX may opt a more oriental meal preference. The other caterer Pos Aviation Catering while meals do look better its been noted the ingredients procurement in terms of quality and freshness have been subpar over Brahim, Options are also limited as POS infrastructure is still small. Brahim actually is the best one out of KUL especially after SATS came in and did a bit of procedural overhaul but dispose the shares at a loss cause it was not commercially viable long term. Not helping the main client "MH" has been tinkering over costs issue that lays solely on its passengers being very price sensitivity and poor yields. The contract it sign pre SATS Brahim that was very long and one sided also contributed. But overall again it goes back down to what type passengers Malaysia is attracting as whole and whether it can retain the same with what BKK SIN is attracting to even allow the flag carrier to contract similar meals to what those country cater when it comes to meals. On another note capital A's SANTAN is still the most efficient caterer in asia especially when it comes down to pricing but if it were to setup meal tray service with sides etc it will also be on the same end with the others.

Well thats half true. There was no mutual agreement on takeover price and it has been stuck since the pandemic. Now it seems the gov has stepped in. It wont be 129mil as well as Brahim was already bleeding. While people are blaming Brahim for MH lackluster meals one must wonder also cause meals catered by other airlines ex KUL with Brahim do not have the occasional subpar meal that MH has. It has been noted MH y meals for regional under 3 hours have been stripped bare bone down to RM18 per pax for whereas others have opted to stick with rm30 or more. EK contract for their segment was about rm56 per meal for economy. So its not entirely Brahims issue as well. SATS is also charging a similar pricing for ex SIN but in SGD. Meals in MH have degraded from constant cost cutting. The long one sided contract with Brahim did not help either.

Overheard that MAG is in process of acquiring Brahim but it will take months. During this period as reported by the media Mh will be sourcing multiple catering units including hotels etc. Dont expect it to be smooth sailing in terms of quality and consistency.