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MH had a few more routes to India and China but was discontinued in ‘route rationization’ recently. The basic problem was, MH failed to provide convenient transit to feed these pax to trans-pacific, Aussie or other regional routes. Mas Kargo is dong very well for freight from China to Europe and the US. Just my 2 cents

If past record is to be believed; MH will order both 787 and 748 the moment it is making profit or 'on track to recovery'. As for 734 replacements, MH won’t be using A320 like AK, so will order 738. Just my 2 cents

Invest for the future when oil and gas reserve is depleted.

You can’t drop the spots on leopard. As long as the Government is having a narrow minded policy, don’t expect much or any improvement from either MH or MAB. However, from time to time you will hear some campaign ‘transformation’, ’rationalization’, ‘revolution’, etc but don’t expect them to carry through. The last campaign was the upgrade of business class, after spending so much money on the seats, mood lighting, advertisement, etc but neglected to revamp the schedule; the most important criteria for business traveler to choose which airline to take. Hence, MH failed to attract the projected number of premium pax. And now MH is claiming to target leisure traveler. But EY pax have been neglecting by MH for many years. Wondering what campaign they are going to launch soon, may be coincident with VMY 2007. At the moment, the only one thing MH can be proud of is the cabin crews. Just hope they won’t ruin them. Just my 2 cents

Petronas has been operating as PM’s private company. No other politician can lay their hand on Petronas business. Despites many ‘national service’ carried by Petronas, Petronas is still very rich. If Petronas keeps to its charter ‘to manage the earning from oil and gas for future generations’; Malaysians shouldn’t be paying income tax.

About half of Malaysians travel rarely and when they do, they avoid foreign carrier. There aren’t much business transaction is carried out in Malaysia, few foreign business travelers visit Malaysia (if compared with BKK or SIN). As for leisure travelers, most Arabs visit Malaysia during their summer holiday. Hence, neither yield or pax load justified a larger aircraft or frequency to KUL. In addition, it is expensive to operate a hub from KUL and KUL design is unfriendly for airline operation. Just my 2 cents

If MH cancel the A380 order; apart from paying compensation to Airbus. The A380 hanger under construction, and terminal and runway upgrading at KUL will be totally wasted. Actually, MH don’t need to build this hanger until later date or at all. But again, when money and politic is involved, anything is boleh.

Old habit died hard, there are still too many dead wood in Mana Ada System especially at the top management level. Basically, these people don’t have a grip on business sense but politic. Modern business model will not be implemented in the foreseeable future. To have a truly competitive and successful airline in Malaysia; believe it is easier and cheaper to close, dissolve Mas and restart with a new airline. Of course, this is politically unacceptable. Hence, most of us in this forum will forever cry for improvement or give up hope eventually. Just my 2 cents.

Signage in Malaysia is means for people who know. Most strangers or first timers will be lost or confused. As many of the duty free shops are operate by MAB; MAB would prefer to convert rest area into café, restaurants and shops or replacing tenants with their subsidiary (in the name of upgrading) to increase revenue rather than making transit pax more comfortable. When pax is too comfortable at rest area, they will spend less time and money at MAB outlets. Because of the distance from satellite terminal, doubt they can improve much on the average time of 35 minutes to retrieve luggage. It was 40 minutes before the recent upgrading

You can’t remove spots from leopard. When a militant union can held a company in ransom, it is a matter of time that company will failed unless drastic measure is taken. Politicians have different objectives than businessman. Rarely that company with politician involvement can be successful without Government backing or protection.

T3 at SBZ is available for pax operation. If SZB is open to public, KUL will be deserted. The Government and MAB won’t permit SZB to back to life except for prop operation. As ticket price on long haul LCC won’t be much cheaper than regular airlines, hence the business model is yet to be proven. Believe it is more viable to operate as charter, which is proven and successful among holiday makers.

Understand at present, there isn’t a successful business model for long haul LCC.

MH non alliance policy and poor regional schedule is not helping the KLIA either.

Myth busted!

KUL/SIN sector is one of the best if not the best yield routes for MH and SQ. Both governments would try to delay AK entry to this route as long as possible. Else MH will incur more losses.

Home airline is almost always more expensive than foreign airlines. Because local are normally willing to pay a premium to travel on home airline. Personally, I recommend BR; CC may not be as friendly as MH but food served onboard is better than MH and is value for money.

If pax figure at KLIA is correct (i.e. doing excellently well), why is that MAB is not paying concession fees to the Government for a number of years and the Government is contemplating to take MAB private? Somehow figures just don’t add up.

KLIA contact pier and satellite terminal was designed for 25m ppa. Does it mean KLIA has reached it’s capacity? MAB is supposed to construct the second satellite terminal 2 to 3 years before 25m ppa is reached. Are they executing it? Believe the KLIA figure is cooked like other Government statistics.

Civil twilight at sunrise is about 30 minutes before sunrise. Likewise, twilight at sunset is about 30 minutes after sunset. Adelaide sunrise, sunset time can be obtained from; http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=AAAD Definitions of twilight, sunrise, etc http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/RST_defs.html

MH 139 KUL/ADL, STA0610hr. Sunrise in Adelaide is at 0615 hr. Unless the flight was delayed. If meal serving is 90 minutes before arrival, the sky should be dark. Understand nautical twilight at sunrise is about 30 minutes (more at higher altitude and southern atmosphere at this time of the year) earlier than civil twilight. Window shutter on red eyes flight are most likely remain open, nautical twilight should be clearly visible. Don't think the complaint is justified.

Understand nautical twilight at sunrise is about 30 minutes (more at higher altitude and southern atmosphere at this time of the year) earlier than civil twilight. Window shutter on red eyes flight are most likely remain open, nautical twilight should be clearly visible. Guess the pax was sound asleep until meal serving.

Believe Boeing is using same jig for 720, 707, 727, 737, 757 and 737 NG. The improvement over the year is basically weight saving, work method and sound proofing. Other amenity and configuration have little or no impact on the fuselage construction. It make engineering sense to share common fuselage. A tube is a tube.

MH needs alliance to feed pax from USA. Without alliance, it is inconvenience and more expensive to travel on MH. Point to point model and working alone is outdated and uncompetitive.

Don’t think we should laugh at our neighbour. There is a bigger can of worm in our own backyard.

Rumour (which always true) has it; KLIA is built on a cemetery and was haunted during construction stage. When KLIA was opened in 1998, spirits was invited to move out by bomoh. Believe it or not, spirits was requesting to travel to Japan and their wish was granted. Travelled on a MH flight to Tokyo and released there.