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  1. Tax is fixed by the government while the difference would be between fuel surcharge & admin fees. You simply compared the difference by doing fake booking on their website, not difficult at all.
  2. The date has been updated at 12.30am, bookings run smoothly after that, no problems at all. Make sure you refresh your browser if the date haven't been updated (esp for those who login to the website early).
  3. AK Rules for the coming online check in.
  4. From what I read from last weekend chinese newspaper, the following rules applied for online check in: 1. Domestic Flight Only. 2. From LCCT only (will rollout to nationwide if the respond is good). 3. Hand luggage only (no check in luggage). 4. Available from 2 to 6 hours before departure. Beside that they will install self service check in kiosk at LCCT as well.
  5. a Pic of the Firefly cabin crew: http://www.airliners.net/uf/view.file?id=5...8277070nKxX.jpg Reminded me of Singapore Valuair Uniform (Polo T + Khakis pant/skirt & Sport shoe) but Firefly goes one step further by wearing T-Shirt! (That' true LCC!)
  6. For god sake just delete this post.
  7. This is not funny at all, this post should be deleted if proven fake by administrator. (How could MAS made these kind of important announcement on April 1 & most importantly -- Sunday! (Public holiday).
  8. Well there are plenty of mistakes in that article as well, B737-400 has turned out as B747-400.
  9. Latest Update from : http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21484616-2,00.html THE pilots of a Garuda airliner that crashed in Indonesia, killing 21 people including 5 Australians, were arguing moments before the accident, a senior Indonesian investigator has said. Garuda Airlines Boeing 747-400 caught fire after overshooting the runway at Yogyakarta airport in Indonesia on March 7. The chief Indonesian investigator Tatang Kurniadi today said the plane's black box recordings show the pilot and co-pilot were involved in an argument over the plane's speed and wing flaps moments before the crash. He said his preliminary findings would point to human error, and "absent mindedness" as the cause of the disaster. "Absent mindedness - I worry that this accident came from the absent-mindedness from the cockpit," Mr Kurniadi said on Channel 9's Sunday program. The captain and first officer were flying together for the first time, he said. "The co-pilot is a young pilot with just 2000 flying hours and the captain, experienced, having enough experience, more than 15,000 flying hours," the investigator said. Mr Kurniadi said the black box revealed the captain and first officer were arguing just before the plane came down, with the co-pilot demanding the pilot "go around" and delay the landing. "There was some argumentation between the co-pilot and the pilot and captain relating with the speed and flaps," he said. Mr Kurniadi said the flaps did not jam, rather the co-pilot did not put them down properly because the plane was going too fast. Mr Kurniadi and his team will finalise their results within a month.
  10. Booking haven't started yet (of course along with the usual full page print advertisement), would be interesting to see how much is the launch fare.
  11. Again another inconveniences indirectly caused by all those crazy terrorists.
  12. I think 400 seats is referred to all economy class layout.
  13. That's right: Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said Jetstar would use the aircraft, to be delivered from late this year, on domestic and short-haul international routes. He said Qantas would also boost the capacity of its full-service operations in Australia by transferring four Boeing 767-300 aircraft currently used for international flights to domestic operations. Dixon said the increased capacity for both Jetstar and Qantas should help the airline retain its 65 percent share of the Australian domestic market. From : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp.../267254/1/.html
  14. What out for agreement signing ceremony on 17 April as they are planning to fly as early as Oct 2007 (this year)! Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=con...id=aG6UD_doWlR4
  15. Some latest update from bloomberg: - Will sign agreement on 17 Apr 2007. - Start flying Oct 2007. Malaysia's Fly Asian to Buy Planes; May Order Airbus By Soraya Permatasari and Haslinda Amin March 29 (Bloomberg) -- Fly Asian Xpress, a Malaysian airline that's starting a long-haul budget carrier, plans to sign an agreement on April 17 to order around 15 aircraft, prompting speculation Airbus SAS will win the contract. The aircraft, valued at as much as $2.9 billion based on list prices, will allow AirAsia X, the new airline, to start flying as early as October, Fly Asian Chief Executive Raja Mohamad Azmi said in a phone interview from Hong Kong today. AirAsia X will pick Boeing Co.'s 777-200 or Airbus's A330-300 aircraft, Fly Asian has said. ``I think it's Airbus,'' said Rosnani Rasul, an analyst at TA Securities Sdn. in Kuala Lumpur. ``We just met Boeing and Boeing said that to lease or buy their planes it's going to take some time.'' AirAsia X, whose shareholder Tony Fernandez also owns a stake in AirAsia Bhd., Southeast Asia's biggest low-fare airline, will join competition for long-haul services, betting that cost- conscious travelers are prepared to forgo comforts offered by full-service airlines such as Malaysian Airline System Bhd. and Singapore Airlines Ltd. ``AirAsia Bhd. is very close to Airbus because they just ordered planes from them, so maybe they can squeeze something to get the planes earlier,'' said Rosnani, who has a ``buy'' call on AirAsia stock. AirAsia Bhd. placed a third order for 50 Airbus A320 planes in January, bringing its total firm orders of the single-aisle aircraft to 150. It also has options for 50 more of the model. Tony Phillips, the Singapore-based spokesman for Airbus, and Raymond Francis, a spokesman for Boeing based in Singapore, declined to comment. Pricing, Reliability ``For budget airlines, pricing and reliability of the plane are the two most important factors. They won't want to introduce inefficiencies to their operations,'' said Raymond Tang, who manages $1.7 billion as chief investment officer of CIMB- Principal Asset Management Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur. Fernandez said on March 8 AirAsia X may have to delay services for as long as a year from an original plan to start in July because of the lack of planes. ``Yes, we are finalizing,'' Raja Azmi said today. ``We hope to start earlier than next year, at the later part of this year. We are looking at'' October. AirAsia X will pay AirAsia Bhd. about 5 percent of annual revenue as royalty for using the AirAsia brand name, Rosnani said. The contribution to AirAsia Bhd. ``is probably going to be very small this year,'' she said. The announcement itself ``is not going to affect anything on AirAsia shares.'' AirAsia stock, which has risen 15 percent this year, was unchanged at 1.73 ringgit at the 5 p.m. close in Kuala Lumpur. Government Approval Fly Asian Xpress won government approval in January to begin services and flights were initially scheduled to start in July. AirAsia X had planned to lease two or three planes this year and purchase more for delivery in 2008. Asia-Pacific passenger traffic is estimated to grow at 5.7 percent annually between 2006 and 2010, outpacing the global average, according to estimates by the International Air Transport Association, which represents 250 carriers worldwide. An A330-300 aircraft can seat as many as 335 passengers, reach a maximum distance of 5,500 nautical miles (10,186 kilometers) and cost $180 million each, based on catalog prices. Boeing's 777-200, which costs $195 million, can carry as many as 400 people and fly as far as 5,210 nautical miles. Birmingham, Tianjin AirAsia X plans to fly to Birmingham or Manchester in the U.K., Tianjin and Hangzhou in China, India, the Middle East, Australia and the U.S. It may also fly the same long-haul routes as Malaysian Airline, the national carrier, Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy said in January. ``AirAsia X will complement AirAsia by bringing all these people that AirAsia could never manage to bring into this airport,'' Fernandez said in an interview at the company's headquarters at the low-cost carriers terminal in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. ``They can get off and then get on to our short-haul flights. AirAsia X will be an eight to 12-hour radius, the focus is going to be on India and China,'' Fernandez said. A return flight on AirAsia X to the U.K. from Kuala Lumpur may cost as low as 9.99 ringgit ($2.9), according to the carrier in January. Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Ltd., which became the first low- cost Asian carrier to fly to London last year, is selling one- way tickets to London from as little as HK$1,000 ($128), excluding taxes and surcharges, its Web site said. Oasis operates two Boeing 747-400s, each capable of carrying 359 passengers, according to the Web site. Airbus, the world's biggest commercial plane maker, said on March 12 it plans to boost production on its A330/A340 line to nine aircraft a month in 2009 and is seeking approval for a rate of 10 a month by the end of that year. To contact the reporters on this story: Soraya Permatasari in Kuala Lumpur at soraya@bloomberg.net ; Haslinda Amin in Singapore at hamin1@bloomberg.net . Last Updated: March 29, 2007 05:37 EDT
  16. Agreed. There's no reason for SAA to fly to KUL and that's why they enter code share agreement with MH.
  17. KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 (Bernama) -- Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and South African Airways (SAA) today signed a code-share agreement enabling SAA's customers to travel on flights operated by MAS and vice versa. However, the agreement is subject to obtaining all relevant government and regulatory approvals as of June 1, 2007, said MAS. SAA's customers will have access to the three direct weekly MAS flights between Johannesburg and Kuala Lumpur. The partnership between the two carriers will enable MAS customers to easily connect from Johannesburg to other South African points such as Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London, MAS said in a statement today. MAS' customers will also have access to regional African destinations including Victoria Falls and Harare in Zimbabwe, Maputo in Mozambique, Maseru in Lesotho, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Windhoek in Namibia and Gaborone, Botswana. In turn, SAA passengers will be able to connect onto MAS flights from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu, Penang, Langkawi in Malaysia, and to cities in the ASEAN region including Jakarta, Denpasar, Manila, Bangkok and Phuket. "The partnership will enable us to strengthen our presence in the African market," said MAS managing director and chief executive officer, Idris Jala. -- BERNAMA
  18. I think they couldn't secured the firefly.com domain name (or just too expensive) thus ended up with fireflyz.com which is much cheaper I'm sure.
  19. I like the 90 seconds video from that article as well, thanks Naim.
  20. This is Fatin I believed, appears on the latest AK main screen.
  21. From the pics it seems the air pollutions in Bangkok was pretty bad. While Samui & Phuket have much cleaner and clearer air.
  22. March 23, 2007 - 5:56AM Indonesia is giving six commercial airlines three months to improve safety standards or face closure, the country's aviation chief has said. The audit was ordered by the government to evaluate transport safety following a string of deadly air accidents in recent months. First an Adam Air jet carrying carrying 102 people disappeared in January, and on March 7 a Garuda plane overshot the runway and burst into flames, killing 21 people, including five Australians. An audit of 54 aviation firms revealed that none of them made it to the first of three rating classes, said Budhi Muliawan Suyitno, the director general of civil aviation at the transport ministry. Fifteen companies, including six scheduled passenger airlines, were placed in the lowest category and were considered to have met only minimal standards of safety. National carrier Garuda Indonesia made the second grade. Suyitno said airlines in the third category would be given warnings to improve standards in three months. "If there's no improvement within three months, there will be a suspension order, and if there's still no improvement they will be shut down," he told reporters. The airlines given three months to shape up were AdamAir, Kartika Airlines, Jatayu, Batavia, Trans Wisata Air and Dirgantara. Air travel in Indonesia, a sprawling country of more than 17,000 islands, has grown substantially since the liberalisation of the airline industry in 1999, which triggered price wars among airlines. The rapid growth raised questions over whether safety has been compromised and aviation infrastructure and personnel can cope with the huge increase. Indonesia is also grappling with problems in other modes of transportation. There have been two serious ferry disasters in recent months killing hundreds of people, while rail accidents on an ageing system built during the Dutch colonial era occur frequently. Reuters
  23. Yes, A380 definitely doesn't fit into the '2 type' strategy.
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