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One of new routes seems Firefly will fly to Hat Yai (HDY) from Subang (SZB) 4x weekly on Sun, Mon, Wed and Fri starting on May 2012. SZB-HDY FY3614 12.00PM-12.20PM HDY-SZB FY3615 12.50PM-03.20PM For new domestic route a big suprise for sector Kota Bharu (KBR) to/from Johor Bahru (JHB) 3x weekly on Sun, Tue and Thu starting on April 2012. KBR-JHB FY2231 08.30AM-10.10AM JHB-KBR FY2232 10.30AM-12.10PM

Yup, all blue looks a bit weird and to plain. Hopefully MH will consider to make it in 2 tone colors on our new A380. I just imagine on graphic illustration if they using blue + purple like this LINK

On Sunday 11th March u mean? Which flight number because I'm onboard 9M-MQF for flight MH1427 KBR-KUL on early morning but never heard this incident.

Got answer by FY regarding fuel surcharge. Firefly Airlines Regrettably, we've had to do so due to rising fuel jet prices. But please rest assured that we will continuously monitor jet fuel prices to ensure that the fuel surcharge is fair and that it is benchmarked against other airlines.Monday at 15:59 · Like

Rumour has our 1st A380 will get her final paint job in Toulouse. Yup, blue + purple looks nice.

According to Etihad Airways is official FB.. Etihad Airways Etihad Airways and airberlin have announced plans to integrate their Boeing 787 Dreamliner programs, affecting a total of 56 firm aircraft – which is more Dreamliners than are on order with any other airline. A combined Etihad Airways-airberlin team will oversee the integration program, which will see the two airlines share infrastructure, pool maintenance, develop joint training programs, and streamline purchasing activity for engines, rotables, avionics and inflight entertainment systems, as well as work jointly on product development for the new aircraft type. Etihad Airways is scheduled to begin taking delivery of the B787 in 2014, and airberlin will take delivery of their aircraft in 2015. Source :

Just my graphic illustration, i'm still prefered 2 tone colors combination (example : blue + purple or dark blue + light blue) on wau logo for rebranding and it would be nice on our new A380. Crayolas like this?

No more red for MH, red button already replaced with purple color. Combination color of blue + purple looks great and modern.

KBR spotting last week..MH B738 rego 9M-MLH, 9M-MLJ and AirAsia A320 9M-AQB

Maybe the lower part of tail reserved for some livery to touch up thats why wau logo a bit upper.

According to FY's official FB, its confirmed two new routes which one domestic and one international.

They mentioned new routes, so I guess it's not a new destinations..maybe KBR-LGK, KBR-JHB, KBR-SIN, PEN-BTH..

Firefly will be launching 2 new routes soon.

It's looks like eygpt air livery color too.

I think looks like Oman Air livery too..video our new A380 painted..

MH reveal on their official FB..new livery and new brand? Source : http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151355734890386&set=a.10151018108470386.774586.548145385&type=1&theater#!/malaysiaairlines

Here closeup picture for nose our new MH A380..looks like all blue livery applied on wording..

Why don't learn from Singapore Airlines rather than learn from AirAsia? Frankly, Tun Dr M should told and advise this solutions during he was a PM and got the power but not now.

Idham, they still using -400 for KBR but slowly they send more -800 now. AOR I think will getting more -800 soon.

In Utusan Malaysia paper today. Here the link. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2012&dt=0227&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Korporat&pg=ko_01.htm

Malaysia Airlines Has No Plans To Discontinue Aerobridge Service KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Bernama) -- Malaysia Airlines has described as inaccurate, a report in a local Malay daily, which stated that the airline is considering discontinuing aerobridge services. "We have no plans to discontinue the aerobridge service for jet flight operations in our network," said its Acting Head of Strategic Communications, Nor Zalida Ahmad in a statement. She said Malaysia Airlines will continue to provide the facility as part of delivering its branded customer experience to passengers towards becoming the preferred premium carrier. -- BERNAMA Source : http://bernama.com.my/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=648418

Last Saturday on 25th Feb 2012 onboard B738 9M-MLG for KUL-KBR. Hopefully they send MX series again soon to KBR. As usual spotting at anjung tinjau after landed.

Not bad, total rm402 for return.Good news for those hunting SQB747 farewell flight HKG-SIN on this 6th april. Depart by CX, return by SQ.

Yup, really working as promised. Just login into my enrich account and 1000 miles (MHbuddy promo) was credited per sector and appeared on account statement as Promo From Facebook Malaysia. Hope they will extend this promo until mid of year. Thanks Malaysia Airlines.

Malaysia Airlines Top Priority To Stem Losses by M. Saraswathi KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 (Bernama) -- The top priority for Malaysia Airlines now is to stem its huge losses and a return to profitability soon, besides striving to regain its stature as a preferred premium airline with better services and newer aircraft, its Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, said Thursday. Its recent senior management shake-up and drastic route cuts are among the many strategies being taken to put the national airline back on track towards profitability from the 2013-14 financial year onwards, he said. He also said it was imperative that solutions be found to address issues at the national carrier, as the Malaysia Airlines name, invoked much pride among Malaysians. For the nine months ended Sept 30, 2011, Malaysia Airlines incurred RM1.209 billion in pre-tax losses as compared to a RM23.73 million profit for the same period in 2010. It is scheduled to release its full year financial result next week. To avoid "rivers of red ink" for a considerable period if nothing drastic is done, major shareholders of Malaysia Airlines decided to undertake a top management change, as well as a landmark share swap deal late last year between Malaysia Airlines and its closest local rival, AirAsia. Under the deal, AirAsia's major shareholder, Tune Air Sdn Bhd, took a 20.5 per cent share in Malaysia Airlines while Khazanah Nasional Bhd got 10 per cent of the low budget airline. As part of the revamp, Ahmad Jauhari, 57, an engineer by training and a corporate figure who had made his mark at Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd and Malakoff Bhd, was appointed CEO last September. "We have to stem losses first before moving forward. So, the first thing we did was to review all the "bleeding" routes, then on managing costs and finally, relooking our network," he told Bernama in an interview today. The company's new board of directors, he said, had also looked at how other factors could be improved, including, increasing frequencies on certain profitable routes such as to Manila, Jakarta, Shanghai and Beijing. Although the move by Malaysia Airlines to cut off certain routes had caused lots of rumbling, including from employees, Ahmad Jauhari said such decisions were common in the aviation industry. "It's a norm for airlines. You must get the volume. Japan Airlines slashed 40 per cent of the routes when it was in trouble," he said in citing an example. But he said Malaysia Airlines may relook some routes that were cut if profitability could be ensured in future. Route cutting, he explained, would also help Malaysia Airlines to slash its maintenance and operating costs, as 36 aircraft in its fleet were at the end of their leases, and this meant it need not ground them as they would be returned to the lessors. At the same time, Malaysia Airlines will be receiving 23 new aircraft, thus reducing its average fleet age to eight years from 14 years previously, and improving cost efficiency through newer and fuel-efficient engines. In refuting claims that the route cuts had benefited its strategic partners, AirAsia and AirAsia X, he said: "Both airlines (Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia) actually act (separately) in terms of their own networks. Just as we cut and introduce new routes, they also do the same all the time." Ahmad Jauhari said Malaysia Airlines withdrew from Capetown and Johannesburg but neither AirAsia or AirAsia X were flying there. Similarly, AirAsia X withdrew from London, Paris, New Delhi and Mumbai but these routes are still serviced by Malaysia Airlines, and when AirAsia X stopped flying to Abu Dhabi, Malaysia Airlines did the same with Dubai. "So, it is completely an independent decision of both airlines. But whenever airlines cut routes, the incumbent get the traffic. That could be any airline," he pointed out. On suggestions by some quarters that the partnership with Air Asia may eventually turn Malaysia Airlines into a low cost carrier over the long haul, Ahmad Jauhari said emphatically that it would always remain a full service carrier. Commenting on plans to revitalise the airline as a preferred premium airline and attract more passengers, Ahmad Jauhari said it would embark on a major advertising and promotion campaign from mid-2012. This would be just as Malaysia Airlines receives the first of its A380 jumbo aircraft, which would be deployed for the Kuala Lumpur-London sector from July 1. The campaign will be rolled out in stages, in South East Asia first, before going worldwide. "The A380 will be our flagship aircraft to compete with other airlines. It is also a good opportunity to place Malaysia Airlines deservingly as a premium entity and help us win back customers," he said. Asked why Malaysia Airlines had lost ground as a premium airline, Ahmad Jauhari said its competitors had been improving their services and offerings with newer aircraft. "As such, regaining premium customers would not be on price alone, as Malaysia Airlines needs to put in more hard work, to entice them by offering better services and frills as they are now spoilt for choice," he said. On the Kuala Lumpur-London sector, for example, carriers such as Etihad, Emirates and Singapore Airlines are also flying the same route. "We can't force customers to fly Malaysia Airlines. It's all about winning back customers by providing the better choice. These days you got to pamper customers. "The mission is very clear. We basically have a large competition out there and the company needs to do this in order to survive. It is really about survival and winning back customers," he added. As part of the campaign to capture more premium passengers, Ahmad Jauhari hoped that Malaysia Airlines' emergence as a member of the "One World" alliance in November this year would help, as it allowed access to almost 950 destinations in 150 countries, served by a combined fleet of 2,600 aircraft operating around 10,000 flights a day and carrying 358 million passengers. Asked to elaborate on the introduction of new destinations, he said this would have to wait until the airline turned profitable. "It takes at least a year to build-up traffic for a new route. For the first few months, you are going to lose some money. So, until we are financially sound, we can't give that a try, and unless very certain of enough traffic," he added. As to the possibility of Malaysia Airlines being forced to offer a voluntary employee separation scheme following the route cuts, Ahmad Jauhari said the management would look at seconding its skilled workforce to other airlines first, if there was a surplus. "Secondment means these skilled workers would be gainfully employed until such time when the situation improves and Malaysia Airlines could then fully utilise them again," he added. He said the highly trained cabin crew, pilots and technical personal of Malaysia Airlines were much sought after in the industry. "If we have more than necessary, we can send them on secondment. This is also a norm in the industry. We helped start India's Jet Airways (in that way), as they used our cabin crew, pilots and planes," he disclosed. He stressed that the management would ensure that its work force would be "usefully employed." Asked what he meant by "usefully employed", Ahmad Jauhari explained that they would have to undertake tasks to help boost the national airline's current turnaround and ensure future profitability. -- BERNAMA Source : http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=647407