Chris Tan

...as long as your flight does not arrive after a wave of A380/77Ws...

But MH prices are not on par with other oneworld members Sure, I love the Pier/QF First SYD/Al-Mourjan, but considering how affordable MH fares are (especially in J), I think the current offerings are decent enough.

The old 867/866s 2hr turnaround made it easier

Per the airlineroute archives: Malaysia Airlines from 01AUG13 is introducing 4th daily Kuala Lumpur Denpasar service, where itll operate during midnight hours from Kuala Lumpur on board Boeing 737-800 aircraft. MH715 KUL0850 1150DPS 772 D MH851 KUL1205 1505DPS 772 D MH853 KUL1520 1820DPS 738 D MH867 KUL2330 0230+1DPS 738 D MH866 DPS0435 0730KUL 738 D MH714 DPS1250 1550KUL 772 D MH850 DPS1605 1905KUL 772 D MH852 DPS1920 2215KUL 738 D MH866 begins from 02AUG13.

Nonsense. That is an Airbus ATR500ER with Boeing Sky Interior.

The unfortunate fact is that RM74 hurts Malaysian travellers a lot more than SGD47.80 does to your average Singaporean traveller. All those sunflowers and butterflies don't come cheap. It's a chicken-and-egg situation. Raise the PSC and you'll draw the ire of the Malaysian public, Tony Fernandes, and those who want everything to be like SIN/SQ but do not want to pay SG prices; keep the PSC at a low level and you'll get the walkways being turned into bazaars and second-rate shopping malls rather than Jewels with the world's largest indoor waterfall..

Yeah, AA isnt doing too well in the China market. They also dropped ORD-PVG and ORD-PEK some time back.

KUL-BKI-NRT was dropped when BKI-HND came along I believe

It can strike thrice in places like RGN

But how would the MW community feel about narrowbodies on >4 hour flights? I don't quite understand the obsession with trying to put up a fight with SQ. It's clear that MH isn't in the same league its sibling to the south. This is a fact that many MWers consistently bring up when trying to put MH back in its place after it tries something SQ-esque. Paradoxically, it's also the source of much disappointment and fantasy when MH doesn't do something SQ-esque.

When the dom-intl immigration is busy, I find it faster to head airside and go upstairs to international departures. Especially for Malaysian passport holders as the main departure immigration hall has autogates.

It might be standard at crappy airports but that does not make it acceptable IMHO. Not when KLIA (and the country as a whole) has greater aspirations.

Or maybe Malaysian and South Korean carriers operate under different circumstances. What works for one carrier doesn't necessarily work for the other. Why do MH/D7 have up to 5 daily KUL-ICN flights collectively while KE manages only 1, and OZ none at all?

Perhaps an overpriced rickety aerotrain connecting the Satellite with MTB2 would make more sense? Or would that further inflate the construction cost?

No aerobridge: MAHB gets bashed for giving in to Tonys penny pinching, no better than LCCT, cannot compete with DMK/SIN, hate walking under the sun and rain, etc. With aerobridge: T2 is too expensive

To paraphrase one of the experienced members here: pax may be loyal to airport but airport may not be loyal to pax

That's when they're not busy chatting the day away or letting everyone through the metal detectors without a second look.

Funny how they forgot to include immigration and baggage reclaim wait times on their list.

5 hours with one engine off? No wonder Tony loves the A330neo

This credit card fee would lead to the collapse of the Malaysian aviation industry.

Hashtag Bantah PSC!

There's only so much that low airport taxes can accomplish. We can set our PSC at RM1 but that won't make the Malaysian market more attractive than Thailand's.

There's nothing game changing about returning to the days of same-plane single-aisle service to Europe via the Middle East. And is D7 a high-yield luxury carrier or a bargain basement LCC? What are the odds of D7 adopting a J hard product that's even more premium than, say, AA's 32B? Plus a Y seat pitch that's even more generous than FSCs?

One wonders if the new administration is also accorded Enrich Platinum membership

Not quite. QSuite is just a very good J product, not a different class in itself.