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  4. Posted · Edited by BC Tam · Report reply

    ..... a revered A330 widebody and not a wretched non-BSI B738, which is considered by some to be the worst invention in the flying industry.

     

    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 :D

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    i thought these few routes to the chinese cities are only chartered flights?

    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 :)

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    Seems to me Malindo likes to follow the "footstep" of Airasia instead of introducing new and "untested" route

    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 :)

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    Direct flight yes..... but from Kuching? whats the strategy here?

    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 :)

    beside, it will also bring up the new market or travel pattern like China-BKI-TWU/Semporna-KCH-BKI-China or vice versa .....

    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

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    China Southern Airlines from late-September 2018 introduces new South East Asia route from Shenzhen, where the airline plans Shenzhen – Kota Kinabalu route.

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

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    ..... They get the VIP treatment i.e. being chauffeured around without much interaction with the locals. From landing to departing.

    Yes :)

    Example, they get dropped off at a corner of Asia City, go for lunch at the couple of Korean restaurants there, drop by ACE supermarket to stock up on Korean snacks/provisions/soju and straight back into the waiting coaches

    It's like so well choreographed :D

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