Azman MN
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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...
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Hi Chris, I am German :-)
The translation is correct from Bing, there isn't anything in the German words which means that it will be a bad flight. The only thing I could read between the lines in the Twitter posting from Toni Kroos is that he seems to be not too happy about the duration of the flight.
Cheers
Andreas
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...
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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.
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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.
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I flew Scoot dreamliner from SIN-HKG. Business class was about SGD150. Not bad.
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Why can't they do a simple thing like trying their best to inform family members first, instead of going straight to the press?
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water is a lot murkier and visibility is worse than I imagined.
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We need to filter fact from speculation.
Bodies recovered does not equate with bodies identified. Also be careful about the numbers they quote - whether it is the daily total or grand total count.
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".
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AirAsia boss applies deft touch in crash response
I think the bit that clinched it would be the part where Tan Sri took it upon himself to take responsibility for the accident. Bear in mind though sceptics will probably enquire what form that 'responsibility' entails, but PR is all about spontaneity .......
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.
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Maybe they should not go for one brand. Like BA leaving Iberia as it is...
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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?
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Paul, mind posting the original article? Thanks.
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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.
Sorry Azman, but that is not the case at all. The UK AAIB helped Inmarsat to present their information to the Malaysians as soon as they were asked to do so. It was the Malaysians that rejected the data for five days, until Inmarsat teamed with the UK AAIB to persuade them to do otherwise. The article does not say that the UK AIIB did nothing for five days, it says, quite correctly, that the Malaysians did not want to know about the data for five days, until the UK AAIB helped Inmarsat to persuade the Malaysian authorities to heed it.
And all of that occurred because Immarsat took the initiative to see what they could determine with the data they had, and informed the Malaysian authorities within 24 hours of the aircraft losing contact, and then, when the Malaysian Authorities choose to reject that information, went to the AAIB in an attempt to get their data seen as the vital information that it was.
In my view, the acting minister of transport, in choosing to conceal that he knew the aircraft was West of the Peninsula, as he knew at 0900 on the morning of the disappearance, and then having the search conducted to the East of Malaysia is, the say least, reckless and irresponsible.
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Not defending Malaysia, but even the British authorities took 5 days to take the data seriously as per the article.Malaysia ignored Inmarsats data on MH370 for 5 days, says report
It seem all effort now done quietly in background (assuming it's still ongoing) - maybe less finger pointing at this stage would be helpful
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Can but with severe performance penalties.
What does that mean? Must land immediately?
Ok, which 4 engine plane can fly on 2 engines? A340?
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Can 747 fly with 2 engines?
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How can they overlooked this issue? They expect the passengers would actually like to take an hour stroll along way to the gates lugging heavy luggage and all? And while at it, small kiosk will be put along the way to distract their tiredness. Incompetence as it was never on the blue-print or deliberated because of the already inflated cost to build the airport?
How one know the ball park figures for such walkalators?
Anyways, the walkalators is surely required here. And while at it, please educate the users to always stand on left, so that extremely late passengers can pass through on the right. I noticed that Malaysians don't generally know about this small but helpful courtesy.Its time to put signs up not only at airports, but also every where else in the city shopping malls etc.
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.
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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.