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Point taken - not dodgy then

Timeline sounds a bit dodgy ".....acquisition plan will be brought to the board by the first quarter of 2019" Not quite possible then for said board to "consider the plan at either its November meeting....." So, January (2019) it will most likely be then

Ok, now it seem like PEK-BKI (MF) is back on, whilst Malindo/Batik has ceased TSN-BKI

Those OD flights, as far as we have been told, are chartered operations, ie. time limited Maybe AK people know about things we do not ?

Goodness, so that is what they look like in light of day Thank you !

As circumstances stand now, we're not likely to see a BSI standardized A330 anytime soon - none that any self respecting Airbus employee would admit to anyway

That would be my recollection too But you never know what these charters can eventually lead to - remember those Korean Air charters from years back ? And those China Southern charters during our school holiday breaks ? Look where things have developed into nowadays

Not quite so nowadays - they are doing/trying a lot of so called 'secondary' Chinese cities out from BKI nowadays I think they 'pioneered' Zhengzhou (CGO) not too long ago and it seem that Shanghai Airlines (FM) has jumped onto the bandwagon too nowadays - an indication route is lucrative ? Then you get places like Changsha, Tianjin etc as well Don't recall AirAsia ever 'testing' those routes before Though admittedly a few of these, eg Wenzhou, have since been dropped I believe

Would be a joke if they go about redoing the 738 interiors now

You mentioned CAN-TWU and that was what my reply was referencing to No idea on thinking behind KCH-TWU, don't think many people saw that coming Interesting Do you have any idea how much is BKI being used as a transit stop for China/S.Korea-Sarawak traffic ? I suspect there must be some, BKI-KCH vv used to be like a dismal double daily years ago, nowadays a quite respectable 6x daily (and OD coming into picture soon too I believe) in parallel with the increase in China/S.Korea flights

Good idea, but minimum should be ATR capable (there may not be enough of the Vikings around to meet demand otherwise ) However, probably end up A380 standard of 'international' standing instead, considering whose backyard that is nowadays .....

Direct flights to Sabah's east coast airports (SDK and TWU) was one of Mdm Liew's first proposals after assuming the tourism portfolio, no ?

Very likely T7-TAA Sam's picture here at reply #121: http://www.malaysianwings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=21221&page=7 Wild guess from the plane's registration, maybe the brother's ? The ex Foreign Minister Tan Sri ?

Look at that picture of MF No flooding meh ?!

Been fiddling about with flight schedule on AK's site - or is that not a clever way to find out these sort of info ?

Looks like tidak jadi after all

Ok, now that you mention it, I don't recall them concluding their post landing announcement with "...... Malaysia Airlines, member of One World Alliance ......" on my recent flight

Probably this: US Navy Seals helping to train our personnel from: http://dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=126683

Pretty much explain AK's move to go double daily on route when it had been content on one daily all these years

No luck, shepherded into 9M-MXY instead

I know for fact 9M-MLM has gotten grounded at KUL (gate A7), I wonder if they will deploy one of their fatty airbuses I saw resting about earlier to fly us home instead

Wow, giving it another go I see

Because that was where I was waiting and the birds were flying overhead

Amazing, one can literally go bird spotting at KKIA now, between gates 7 and 8

Talking of which: 1) when are we due for the next convoy of Korean 744s (even 748 or 380 ?!) shipping them Amway VIPs in ? 2) compared to 'their' kimchi, you have to concede 'our' versions are ...... well, 'meh' to put it mildly