Azman MN
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Rio De Janeiro. Earlier this year I arrived at Santos DuMont airport from Sao Paulo, walked out of the terminal onto an overhead bridge to cross a busy street, and on the other side I walked another few hundred meters and arrived at the Petrobras office for my meeting.
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Yeah, sounds like syok sendiri.
"The Malaysian national carrier has already been well positioned to capture traffic from London to Australia and New Zealand."
If they can "RE- capture" a small amount of what they lost in the first place, I would be very happy. But it would be a small miracle...
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Just wondering - she drank on her day off.
When they asked her to jump in on short notice, what would happen if she said no? Was there pressure for her to say yes?
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I didnt know the flight stops in Moscow....
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I always thought that parents should teach their children to dress appropriately for the occassion (I have a few times almost fainted when I see what youngsters wear for job interviews). But now in Malaysia, even parents don't know how to dress.
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What a KUL list!
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There are usually separate counters for transit passengers, and the lines for these are quicker. I know because I had to wait up to 2 hours a few times to clear immigration to exit at LA, but I see the transfer lines move much much quicker with at least double the number of counters. If time is running short, ask them nicely if you could jump queue..., and it would also help greatly if your airline has a luggage drop off at TBIT itself.
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no MH didn't....
KLM operated quite a few B747-200 in SUD too. Because of the longer upper deck cabin, people frequently mistaken their 742SUD as 743.
I did not realize at all 742 SUD ever existed...
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There is an interesting query/ issue in the current Asia-Pac edition of Business Traveller mag, where the pax regularly skipped the last sector. Although the airline did not invoice him, the airline unilaterally removed all the miles from the FFP (that were previously credited) that he earned from the trips which he "threw away the final coupon."
In his case, he seems to be doing it so frequently and presumably to the same airline that somebody in the airline noticed the pattern and smartened up.
Interesting, but fair. He did not fly on the last sector so should not get the miles. About getting invoiced, unless there is a serial abuse by the passenger, I do not see how the airlines can even do that. (to invoice a passenger for NOT taking a flight that he has already paid for). The passenger can always argue that their plans changed and the tickets are inflexible, and it is the passenger's loss if he paid for the sector but did not show up. Even if legally the airline can take that action because of a breach of contract, the case would be so silly that taking it to court would be quite embarrassing.
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However, in this case, the checked baggage will still be sent to SIN right ?
No, just tell the check-in agent that you want to get out in KUL. I did it once, flew from NRT to SIN via KUL, and after being told that I could not change my SIN-KUL flight to another one, I asked if I could just get out in KUL, and that was ok. The agent tagged my luggage to KUL, gave me my boarding pass to SIN anyway, and told me to discard it.
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One question,
Let's say if i booked SIN-KUL-LHR as its cheaper i don't get on the SIN-KUL flight, i will be able to board KUL-LHR right
No. But coming back, you can just get out at KUL.
I rememeber a post on Airliners.net from someone in ZRH who bought a Milan-ZRH-JFK return on Swiss, and then found out that he must take the Milan-ZRH sector. So he then bought a one way ZRH-Milan ticket which was still cheap enough. Then at the airport, his flight to milan was delayed. Such was the length of the delay that he realized that the plane would also be too late coming back from Milan to catch his flight to JFK. So he asked Swiss if he could simply skip the Milan portion in this exceptional situation - he was told that he could not. He must go to Milan and catch the flight from Milan to ZRH, and if he missed the flight to JFK, he would be re-booked then.
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I thought the satay already won this award in the past?
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I thought captain Radzi's response was more about the main deck of the 747-400F. The zone where you sit all the pax... in an ordinary 747s..(lower deck cabin) as opposed to the belly space where you put the baggage containers. May be I have missed that.
I question is directed at the lower belly space (baggage container area) in between the wings. My guess is that it is pressurised and temperature well maintained? Otherwise we may have icy cold luggages?
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Sorry, way O/T...
Well, if you transport your pet dog or cat and they go into the hold... surely that part of the cargo hold at least is also heated.
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This latest A330-300 aircraft can now also fly similar ranges while burning over 15 percent less fuel than the B777-200ER on a 1,800nm mission. Furthermore, the A330 even becomes an extremely cost-effective alternative to the B787 on many routes with around five percent lower direct operating costs per trip than the B787. A key advantage of 240 tonne capability is that the increase in range allows the A330-300 to cover more of the A330-200 network, this gives airlines the flexibility to use the A330-200 to open new routes and grow frequency whilst using the A330-300 to grow capacity at low cost.
Interesting. But what is the fuel burn/passenger? Are they comparing apples to apples?
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Doesn't sound one bit stupid to me - in fact it's brilliant, provided you have capable marketing spinners to handle it
Btw, isn't that what Proton has been doing all this while ? Though I hesitate to associate the term 'cost efficient' with our national car maker
Not just proton... Emirates used to do that in the early days. Promote its fantastic cabins, but 90% of the time you will only get to fly their old cabins which have not been refurbished... 10 years ago I always hear people say "I heard Emirates is really good". But ask them if they have actually flown Emirates, no... no one has...
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the KL-Putrajaya highway connect you to KLIA from KL in 30 minutes
When is the extension from Putrajaya to KLIA going to be ready? this will cut maybe another 5 minutes, but I think that 30 minutes is a bit optimistic.
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Saw it on the 14th April in SZB around 5.45pm, standing there all by itself. As if no big deal...
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This is a no can do. Having a boarding pass without the security stamp (which you can only get landside) doesn't work. Asked many times on-site.
How is it that legacy carriers can do it? I mean if you transfer SQ to SQ it is ok without the security stamp, but for AK, you cannot?
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I think if they want to attract business customers, reducing to 5 weekly is not a good sign. Like this even less business class customers will take that flight.
I was also looking at SQ's Sao Paolo service. Only 3x weekly, and to make it worst, the BCN-GRU sector leaves at 8am which means that very few people can connect from elsewhere in Europe. C class tickets are relatively cheap... maybe they are not doing so well...
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The major Indian airports used to be awful, till they started refurbishing/renovating/rebuilding them.
True. Beside the more pleasant departure areas, it takes less time between getting off the plane and getting into the taxi in Mumbai now compared to KLIA.
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NAIA has a nice cheap massage place upstairs to get rid of all your spare change!
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Looks like premium economy to me.
If it was upper deck, the rear section must also be 2-4-2 (like SQ economy on upper deck).
So if it is lower deck it is possible that it is the business class though...
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On a recent short SQ hop from KUL to SIN on A330, one gesture by the leading stewardess impressed me so much, I was left envious.
Happened in Y class doing pre-take off check. A passenger (window seat) was sleeping, both his legs was up, with knees pressed against the seat in front. His carry on bag was on the floor, in front of his seat. A steward tried to wake the passenger up to tell him to push the bag into the empty space below the seat in front of him, to no avail. The leading stewardess happened to walk pass and just gave the steward a tap on his shoulder to stop him from doing so. She then knelt down on the floor, pushed the bag into the space below the seat, thus avoid waking up the passenger. It was so spontaneous and effortless, I thought she must have done it regularly. Mind you it was not too easy to perform - with her tight kebaya and the passenger being seated on window seat...
I had an almost similar experience on MH. I was typing on my laptop and as the plane was pushed back, I was told to switch off everything. However. I was in a bulkhead window seat so the stewardess put it up into the overhead compartment for me. Then during take off, I dozed off. When I woke up, my laptop bag was in front of me again. Wow. How thoughtful, and that was in economy. Maybe these happen quite a lot for pax in bulkhead seats. I don't know...
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I've seen the pilot of the series. It's available free on appleTV via iTunes (not sure about malaysia).
They were doing the first flight of their brand new plane JFK-LHR. But what plane? they didn't mention.... strange to see another actress from Neighbours (aussie soap) in the show.
Changi Airport Group welcomes return of SWISS
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I heard rumours about this a couple of months ago. Maybe bad news for me if Swiss tickets are cheaper than SQ's A380, I will be forced by my company to take the cheaper ticket. The seats are not too bad at all, but the in flight entertainment and the service is not as good a SQ. LX's flight timing is however, much better.
There is plenty of demand. Not only SQ has increased frequency when MH pulled out, Emirates, Qatar, Oman Air are all here in Zurich and expanding rapidly. Maybe MH could not compete in the business class sector, but I have always said that the problem with MH was the frequency of flights. When MH used to fly here, a lot of people told me that they would have chosen MH (it is one of the cheaper, but reasonably well known and reliable airline), but they would be forced to depart or return on certain days and this does not allow them to maximise vacation time, clash with school vacation dates, etc.)