Give us Sydney, not Pyongyang, says AirAsia X

[Give us Sydney, not Pyongyang, says AirAsia X]

I not said we should let D7 fails.I just want to say that they(D7) should grab the chances that have been given to them.They can fly to Darwin first,before they get the approval from the government to fly to Sydney and they also can fly to Nagoya before they manage get Seoul.Moreover,not all Malaysian people who travel to Australia want go to Sydney and not all Australian people who travel to Malaysia is from Sydney.BTW,they can fly to Melbourne and Perth,2 destinations which MAS fly to,so we cannot say that the government is protecting MAS too much.

 

The government also approved D7 to fly to Mumbai and New Delhi,AGAIN these are destinations where MAS fly to.They just failed to get Sydney and accused the government is over protecting MAS and doesnt support them as Malaysian company?

[Give us Sydney, not Pyongyang, says AirAsia X]

That's back to the prioritizing issue that has been mentioned and discussed again and again yet again. Airlines have done their calculation on which destinations generate the most economic benefit to them.

 

D7 is a low cost carrier.

 

It's ok. Go on. Protect MH on their KUL-SYD route even though it has been proven again and again and again in SIN and BKK that protection is NOT the way forward. And in the mean time, lets give more and more business to SQ or pay exorbitantly high fares on MH to SYD and see 3K/JQ and TR overtaking AK/D7 huge lead in the LCC segment. Malaysia is always programed to lose out to Singapore anyway. And it seems that a lot of us here are supporting this - to keep on protecting MH and let D7 fails too even though MH can't ever make it.

 

Statistics are showing that passengers movement in KUL is growing steadily and MAHB is owing to AK and D7 for that. I don't really see your point about KUL 'shrinking' and being 'left far behind' when the actual fact is that KUL is catching up pretty well with BKK and SIN and we should keep that momentum going on as long as it can. Even if KUL is 'shrinking' and being 'left far behind' as you claimed, wouldn't allowing an airline that wants to add more capacity to a particular route or destination in KUL is one thing that can be done to overcome it?

 

The Singaporean government welcomed 3K/JQ (an Australian by nationality by the way), intention to use SIN as their hub with open arm. They don't seem to say 'Oh no, you can't fly from here to there because SQ or TR are serving the route' unlike what is happening with the Malaysian government. Making it more saddening is the fact that the party that the Malaysian government wants to upset is also Malaysian.

[Give us Sydney, not Pyongyang, says AirAsia X]

okay,how about destinations such as fukuoka and nagoya?cant their A330-300 fly to these routes? or they still want to use the same excuse;'the unavailability of A350 aircraft'. BTW,they still can fly to europe with the A330-300 aircraft via transit in middle east country,which they once had mentioned want to use this way.you should realize,that both changi and suvarnabhumi have these destinations while KLIA doesnt.Now,with jetstar's plan want use changi as their hub to north asia and europe with future destinations such as munich and dusseldorf( 2 destinations which not served by KLIA),KLIA would further shrinking....

 

 

p/s:If this happened,no need to talk about its impact to our nations economic,tourism growth,etc...you can thinking by yourself that KLIA would left far behind.

[Give us Sydney, not Pyongyang, says AirAsia X]

I would

 

quote name='Y. J. Foo' date='28 April 2010 - 05:50 PM' timestamp='1272448209' post='254819']

Speaking of North Korea, anyone ever thought of going there?

 

they(D7) always mentioned about the unpopular destinations they received such as North Korea,almaty,ashgabat,etc...but among these,they are some popular destinations such as darwin,nagoya,fukuoka,moscow,manchester, and berlin...why D7 still doesnt want to fly to these routes?our neighbours both at the south(singapore) and north(bangkok) have all these destinations. If D7 is 'keen' to make KLIA as a hub,they should fly to those routes which have been approved to them.The result is,KLIA would get connected to 34 new destinations worldwide....

[About Berjaya Air]

for your info,redang airport was briefly closed for runway expansion and reopening on april 16 2009.i guess that atr72-500 can landed there after the expansion.btw, this is my first post here in malaysianwings.