Azman MN

From various analyst reports I read about the impact of the drop of AUD vs. USD: - middle eastern carriers expanded like crazy during the days when AUD was on par with USD. Huge profit margins to be made when selling tickets in Australia. - local carriers like Qantas suffered because they reported everything in AUD and did not profit from high AUD. Good chunk of business is also from overseas. - now with AUD 30% lower, middle eastern carriers do not make that much profit margin anymore. The expansion will/already? slow down. Less international travel as well, Aussies finding international travel becoming expensive and holiday locally instead. Local carriers stand to benefit. Looks like MH is also affected by the fall in AUD.

The site is my main complain from the beginning. There was a master plan for KLIA - the second terminal should be opposite the first one, where the green box (marked LCCT) is. But apparently they could not do that because the railway track is too high above ground and it would cost too much to move it. WTF... how much did/will they spend fixing the soil in the end? Haphazard planning... bloody typical...

All correct as far as I can see, but if you post a pic with "malaysia airlines" as the main focus and caption it with "its going to be long flight", some people might think you are hinting at something. If he posted a pic of himself in the cabin with exactly the same caption, no one would think that there is anything between the lines...

Yes it is very nice inside. I can stand up straight unlike the old jumbolinos, it feels spacious (I hope they don't squeeze in another seat per row), and there is a lot of space for cabin baggage. Big windows, and very quiet. That lav in the back is definitely bigger than standard ones on widebodies. From the pics, I don't think the Business class seats will stay that way. Typical European config calls for flexibility, so they will have economy style seats and block the middle seat/one seat depending on how many rows they use for C class.

Nice pics. I have already been in the plane, sat in the cockpit, tried out its huge rear lav... At the Paris air show few days before it visited Zurich.

I flew Scoot dreamliner from SIN-HKG. Business class was about SGD150. Not bad.

Just heard on the radio news today that Swiss is planning to increase!! the cabin baggage allowance. Then the catch.... so that then it would be fair to charge people for checked baggage as of middle of next year. I've been in their Bombardier C100 this week. Lots more cabin baggage space compared to their jumbolinos... I guess they are just waiting for these planes to be delivered....

I fear that some companies, including mine, will start forcing us to fly economy plus instead of business. I think SQ is taking quite a risk...

I'm confused... this has been on their website since April if not earlier. So is this just the launch of the full website and the mock up of the seats? Anway, it looks like business class perks without the business class seats....

ok... you've got a point, but I find getting redemption is difficult no matter what airline. I fly BCN-GRU return regularly. The number of times I tried to upgrade from C to F is like... at least 10 times. And everytime they tell me it is full. When I board the plane, at most I see 4 people in F. Usually there is only 1 or 2. So what do they mean it is full?? I try on the internet, no chance. Then I try on the phone, no chance, and then they told me to try at check-in. But then the check in people tell me that it is not possible, and it has to be done in advance. I finally managed one upgrade last year from GRU-BCN. It wasn't available for my Miles and More (LH) programme, but on Krisflyer. But not the saver fare, but standard fare. But.... the BCN-SIN sector was not available, so I went back to C after the stopover. And guess what, there was only one person in F. Well, that is SQ... Try getting redemption on Swiss. It is almost impossible, and almost all the time it will propose a flight via Frankfurt on Lufthansa.

Actually I don't think that KLIA 2 has too much retail space. Before check in, yes it is a mall, but after that, within the secure area itself there is actually very little retail space compared to other airports. Look at Frankfurt new A or Z gate areas, new Zurich departureand arrival, Sao Paolo T3 arrival, Sydney departure, bogota departure, London T2... Far more retail and in most of them you are forced to walk through the duty free retail areas.

Almost every new airport or newly refurbished airport I've been to in the past few years have one thing in common. It's all about retail space.

this has nothing to do with accountability. This is about being human. The way I see it, the intention was good - they need to make that declaration so that insurance can pay out money to the family etc. So the whatever committee sat around the table and decided to do this... then when it comes to communication strategy, why did they decide to do it in the most inhuman manner? There is no rush, they could have tried to give themselves 1 week to organize a closed session with family members in KL and Beijing. After that news will get out anyway to the media. i could understand the SMS mishap (need to get the news out to families quickly before the press makes the announcement), but in this case, there is no rush...

Why can't they do a simple thing like trying their best to inform family members first, instead of going straight to the press?

water is a lot murkier and visibility is worse than I imagined.

This is only what I see from CNN and BBC. Nowhere else. How can 2 of the more reputable news sources have so much misinformation? Almost makes me long for those days where the MH370 operations refused to give any info until "verified".

I am not that impressed. Any CEO would be stupid not to learn from MH370. Besides, right now I am totally confused about who is running the whole operation. There is so much misinformation in the news. They found the wreck, it was upside down on the sea bed, but no they haven't really found it yet. First 40 bodies recovered, then only 3, now it is thirty something, the plane was hit by lightning, etc. etc. So here, no one seems to have learnt from MH370.

Maybe they should not go for one brand. Like BA leaving Iberia as it is...

This is very sad and my thoughts are with the families. If we were to apply what we learnt from MH370, so... in this very critical early hours, any word from the military radar? What about the satellite phone pings?

Paul, mind posting the original article? Thanks.

Paul, this is what is in the article: "The daily said it was only when Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch took Inmarsat's finding seriously that Malaysian authorities changed their mind, five days later." I guess you know more about the story behind the story.

Not defending Malaysia, but even the British authorities took 5 days to take the data seriously as per the article.

What does that mean? Must land immediately? Ok, which 4 engine plane can fly on 2 engines? A340?

Can 747 fly with 2 engines?

In England , it is stand on the right. In fact until I went to Singapore I did not know that there was such a thing as stand on the left. So everyone who have been to england but not Singapore will be standing on the wrong side according to you. I don't know if this is a real excuse but the walkalators were really "out of stock" for a while globally. In fact I passed through the airport a few times when it first opened and noticed markings on the floor for where the walkalators could be.