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MH-QR is a true partnership, MH being a mostly regional carrier is leveraging on QR’s strength in terms of number of destinations and excellent service. remember how christoph mueller managed to get rid of many MH European destinations and sign a partnership with EK? then he resigned and got a job in EK! By then, MH was effectively reduced to a minor player on the Europe-Aus/NZ route. MH seems to have bad luck - the other dodgy deal was with AK!

They are reducing services to many cities in Asia … not sure what is going on… it’s not just KUL

MH had offices in very premium locations around the globe. So far from where they are now

Great news, maybe the MAHB report is not a fantasy as we thought! Waiting for Iberia and QF now!

Unfortunately MH is very reactionary. I don’t blame the government looking at their past performances over the years. at a time when other airlines are cashing in on the resurgence in travel, MH is struggling to find aircraft. Their MAX-8 interiors are sad.. they should have gone for what SQ went for. They you have flexibility to use them on longer medium haul routes and keep a slightly premium product. anyways … it is what it is

AY announced KUL to start in May 2007… then they decided to move to HKG instead. BA/IB/LH - those will be a huge surprise (especially IB). hope LH will be able to use their 789s to KUL, and IB with 359s!

AF always had a problem with KUL and MH. In fact, they were the ones blocking MH’s entry to Skyteam which was supported by KLM. in the end, AF wanted GA and VN to join them, but no MH. same with QF - sponsored MH’s entry to OW then doesn’t want to work with MH

https://simpleflying.com/air-india-planned-international-destinations-2024/ well well, looks like the AI rumour might be coming true!

Woah, that will be something if it is really true! I find it surprising that such a large volume hub like KUL does not get QF, and also AI services (considering many Chinese carriers, MH, AK/D7 and OD serve china from KUL).

Great, I was wondering when both would restart KUL services! IA at one point was flying to KUL from Basra via Baghdad … or the other way round… sounds like aircraft maintenance may be a bit suspect though!

Thanks for sharing guys.. very informative and slightly more positive !

the A339s they are getting will be only for replacement. Expansion will not be possible I’m sure! If and when they want to expand further afield to Europe and US, they will be limited by lack of aircraft delivery slots! such a shame .. would have been nice to see a few more A350s and some 787s!

This is MH problem… full government interference in the past and poor forward planning. Even VN has 787s!!! Come on lah. They should have replaced their 777s with long range aircraft such as the 787s or A350s. They just got rid of 13 777s without replacement! They may not need as many long range aircraft due to their contraction but at least add more narrow body aircraft .. don’t replace like for like! They should have added a few more to allow for situations such as this

Thanks guys, it makes more sense now. It’s the whole operations of petronas that will be under scrutiny and sanctions. the Thais are happy to provide fuel for Mahan. I guess they are not too reliant on their oil companies in terms of overall country revenue and bailouts of GLCs! they do have a huge domestic market as well which helps I’m sure.

Yeah KU finished end of October. The QF story is just incredible. They fly all over ASEAN but avoid KUL. I really don’t get it. surely MNL and CGK are not premium destinations, and I’m sure visa requirements will be quite tough too! I also don’t understand why KUL fuel operators are all scared of US sanctions? Surely we have petronas who can supply fuel to Mahan air? they already fly to quite a few destinations including BKK and HKT - are the fuel operators there not using US companies? I hope RJ will restart the KUL tag on… and it would be great to see IA coming back but with their new 787s!

Fulamaaak… Algiers now! Never thought it would ever happen. looks like a seasonal route. all we need is Teheran, Almaty (air Asia now trying to block air Astana by starting earlier!), Amman, Baghdad, (LAX/SFO one can dream)… and maybe at least one of either Paris, Frankfurt or Rome!

Doesn’t make any sense to me, they can come out at least into the gate area or even a atellite building as they don’t need to cross immigration. At least let them stretch their legs and get walk around or even buy some food at the satellite building.

The original plan was for Air Astana to fly to KUL in Oct 2024 (with a SIN tag on). Then last year they said that they would bring KUL forward to Oct 2023. But they haven’t restarted KUL yet - not sure what the hold up is. Perhaps it is the aircraft (A321) as they need an auxiliary tank for the distance (IIRC).

Why give AOC then? The competition for low cost low yield routes is crazy. MH, AK and OD are killing each other and all are competing on mostly the same routes. just leave it like this …

from aeroroutes… QATAR AIRWAYS RESUMES PENANG SERVICE FROM LATE-OCT 2023 1 min NW23Oneworld Published at 1700GMT 05OCT23 Qatar Airways at the launch of Northern winter 2023/24 season is resuming service to Penang, as the airline opened reservation for travel on/after 29OCT23. The oneWorld member will operate Doha – Phuket – Penang routing with 777-300ER on daily basis. QR840 DOH0245 – 1325HKT1545 – 1820PEN 77W D QR841 PEN2245 – 2315HKT0035+1 – 0400+1DOH 77W D The carrier has been operating this routing, although reservation for passenger flights to/from Penang was not available.

More from aeroroutes… AIR MAURITIUS NS24 MALAYSIA SERVICE INCREASES Published at 0700GMT 28SEP23 Air Mauritius in Northern summer 2024 season intends to increase service to Malaysia, as the airline currently lists 3 weekly Mauritius – Kuala Lumpur service during following periods, instead of 2 weekly: 03APR24 – 25APR24, 03JUL24 – 29AUG24. The 3rd weekly flight is not scheduled for the month of May and June 2024. MK646 MRU2300 – 1010+1KUL 332 14 MK646 MRU2300 – 1010+1KUL 339 3 MK647 KUL1250 – 1550MRU 339 4 MK647 KUL1250 – 1550MRU 332 25

From Jim Liu’s aeroroutes…. ETIHAD INCREASES KUALA LUMPUR FLIGHTS FROM JANUARY 2024 Published at 1730GMT 22SEP23 Etihad Airways starting January 2024 is expanding service to Malaysia, where the airline plans to increase Abu Dhabi – Kuala Lumpur flight, from 1 to 2 daily. The 2nd daily EY412/413 service, on board Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, is scheduled to commence on 15JAN24, and will be maintained on/after 31MAR24. EY412 AUH0845 – 1950KUL 789 D EY418 AUH2100 – 0805+1KUL 789 D EY413 KUL0925 – 1250AUH 789 D EY411 KUL2115 – 0040+1AUH 789 D good to see that the demand for flights to Malaysia is healthy!

I think it’s daily to NRT and 5x weekly to HND. soon HND will be gone, and NRT will be 12x weekly

Absolutely, I think PMX will have to pander to the population to stem the rise in the green wave. Looks like EK is back to 3 class A380, plus two other 777 flights. TK is twice daily, EY daily, QR daily (+ two MH operated flights). And even SV has 3-4 flights a day. the garmen officials used the money to fund their travels, that’s for sure.

True, the ringgit is suffering a lot because of our over reliance on China. It was a big mistake. I don’t see why we could not keep our trading with our usual diversified base of countries. This was worse during the Jibby era when we were the pariahs internationally due to the 1MDB scandal. MH17/370 also set back our tourism for many years, due to the shock of twin crashes but also due to MH’s withdrawal of 777 services (all of Europe/SA/north and South America). … there is no visibility of MH as well as tourism Malaysia in those regions … there is not even much promotion on social media which is cheaper … bit mistake by the garmen to ignore our 3rd biggest income earner. the green wave is creating own goals in our country’s efforts to move out of the middle income trap. No one wants to invest really… not if you want to keep the 51% requirement for local companies to own anything that is set up. Anwar is too scared to make major reforms.