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That’s why I usually put my bags under the seat in front of me… also my kids and wife’s bags. I’m scared that I fall asleep and someone goes and takes things from the bag. lots of people keep opening and closing the overhead compartments, really have to watch them like a hawk

Well to be fair, many pax on the Turkish airlines flight IST-KUL and KUL-IST were connecting on MH and OD service to and fro Australia/NZ

The surprise announcement to me will be BA and Lufthansa flying to SZB, like in the old days

are you serious or is this a joke? interesting expansion if anything

MH was bigger than SQ in the 90s. MH was a major player on the kangaroo route. Again, we were not so limited in terms of population like SG (and also in terms of yield etc etc), but SQ were smart and used Malaysia and Indonesia as its hinterland. That made it have a huge ‘domestic’ market. MH decided to scrap most of its European flights after the twin disasters but if they had planned properly, they could have ordered a few Dreamliners to fly those long and thin routes. That would have allowed them to get some feed from Europe into Australia. alas, their twin tragedies really knocked them back, and dented their reputation significantly (which is only just now recovering)… imagine, MH was the first to fly non stop Dubai to NYC (but were screwed by UAE limitations on their services- they were capturing a lot of India-US pax). Now AI is way bigger and offering KUL passengers services via DEL to Canada, US, UK etc etc! MH was one of the few Asian airlines into South America, and also Central America. Again, their CPT-EZE and LAX-MEX were limited by SA and USA governments to protect their own airlines. That effectively tied one hand behind their back. we could have been big but we were screwed by being a GLC (cash cow for government officials as well as poor forward planning and vision) as well as some protectionism by certain governments

KK Lee and flee hit the nail on the head!!

Air India to start daily DEL-KUL flights from 15th September using A320s… as we suspected! it’s about time anyways that AI returns to KUL. I hope there will be a BOM and MAA flight as well, like the old days! https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/air-india-launches-daily-non-stop-flights-between-delhi-and-kuala-lumpur-to-boost-trip-to-malaysia/

All of this will come and bite MH in the bum. poor salary, poor trained staff retention etc etc. also they missed a trick by bringing out their much hyped 737-max8 - without lie flat beds and IFEs. this is a huge mistake. They could have made it more premium and used it for flights to Amritsar, Perth, and even Seoul if you like (looking at the aircraft changes recently). I often wonder what goes through their minds. Of course, I understand the financial implications but you can now see people choosing other airlines for their better products (and worse still, more competitive prices!!)

Forget ATR, wet lease a scoot Embraer 95 and swap the A330-300 for A330-200. We should be near enough 727 then

Yeah, and that is also just once daily indigo - I’m sure it was 3x daily before Covid. air India was planning to fly to KUL but it looks like SGN got it first!! What a shame

Woah! Never saw that coming. Excellent news

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Snap. I was about to say. they are selling the downstream part of the business (retail) but they are very much active in the upstream part (exploration etc etc).

I am sorry, that is still speculation, no matter what the interviewee said! people do drop down and die - usually from arrhythmias, sudden cardiac events, aortic dissection, stroke, brain bleeds. do we know the post mortem findings? May she rest in peace

It’s a shame that QF can’t make KUL work. I’m surprised that they can make BNE-MNL work but not KUL. They already have SYD-MNL!!