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    18 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

    Glad to see MH-QR partnership going from strength to strength. Qatar Airways are all for mutual benefits for both parties unlike Emirates who prefers to leech on their so-called partners. MH seems to abandon/ does not publicise their EK partnership, only JL partnership remains.

    1. 9:35 AM KUL - 11:55 AM DOH B77W QR 845
    2. 2:55 PM KUL - 5:15 PM DOH A359 MH 164
    3. 8:25 PM KUL - 10.45 PM DOH B77W QR 853
    4. 9:00 PM KUL - 11:30 PM DOH A359 MH 160

    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!

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    19 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

    Not sure why Malaysia can't seem to be unable to make HCM work. Maybe it is the other way round. That's quite a drop from daily flight to 4x weekly. Batik Air Malaysia pulled out of the route totally. I guess AirAsia is now dominating the route. Malaysia Airlines 3x daily, AirAsia 5x daily, Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet both 1x daily. 10x flight a day is quite a lot.

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

     

     

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    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 

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    58 minutes ago, Adam Lawrence said:

    According to this article, Air India, British Airways and Qantas set to return to KLIA in the second half of CY2024 (2HCY2024)

    https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/695309

    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). 

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    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!

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    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

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    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. 

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    6 hours ago, Craig said:

    KU quietly suspended KUL at the beginning of winter 2023 schedule (late Oct). I just find it a bit insulting that QF serves MNL, CGK, BKK, SIN, DPS but not KUL. Is the cut that deep?

    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!

     

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    5 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

    I read Bernama news article in 2019, almost 15,000 tourists from Kazakhstan visited Malaysia and about 10,000 tourists from Malaysia visited Kazakhstan during the same period. The same goes to Uzbekistan. Rather than fighting with Batik Air and Uzbekistan Airlines on the latter, I guess AirAsia X wants to test Central Asia market with Kazakhstan first. I wonder if Air Astana plans to return to KUL, their return was brought forward to last month but I am not sure if they actually return.

    Also, AirAsia X has been allocated Istanbul (IST) for some time, but no official launch announcement yet. IMO, IST will be very tricky with TK and EK dominating the market. Profit margin will be razor thin. 

    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). 

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    from aeroroutes…

    QATAR AIRWAYS RESUMES PENANG SERVICE FROM LATE-OCT 2023

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    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.

     

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    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

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    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! 

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    1 hour ago, KK Lee said:

    As over 50% of foodstuffs and necessities are imported, devalued RM will fuel inflation rate. Until BNM increase bank interest rate, could expect RM to devalue further.

    Turkish Lira devalued substantially in the last few years and yet Erdogan got reelected. As Erdogan is PMX's buddy, PMX is likely to follow Erdogan's populist policy.

    From the number of ME3 and Turkish flights serving KUL show, pax demand from KUL to EU and UK is fairly substantial. Tourism ministry in previous BN/PN administration were more interested to siphoning and travel than promoting the industry.

    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.
     

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    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.

     

     

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