Foreign Carriers and Malaysia

[JuliusWong 0]

2 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

China government is playing dirty politics now via CAAC. They are permitting their own airlines,. be it CN3 or minor airlines to mount flights from various secondary cities to KUL, PEN and BKI, but not from big airports like PKX, PEK, PVG and CAN.

Notice how they introduced a slew of new flights into Malaysia and Singapore from Tier 2 cities and below, but not from Tier 1, some of them unseen before COVID era.

Singapore Airlines is now suffering from this recent move, as they are now forced to cancel Chengdu and Chongqing at the last minute notice "after failing to get approval from authorities there to continue flying to the two cities". Both destinations were only resumed last year November 2023. This is despite China recently granted Singapore passholder 30-days visa free visit and Singapore government waived visa requirement for China passport holders.

But at the same time they do not allow foreign airlines to add additional flight or up-gauge flight to and from China, especially the Tier 1 cities.

MH and other airlines are better off concentrating their resources in India or some other destinations. That being said India is difficult to deal with as well. 

[Craig 0]

5 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

Singapore Airlines is now suffering from this recent move, as they are now forced to cancel Chengdu and Chongqing at the last minute notice "after failing to get approval from authorities there to continue flying to the two cities". 

SQ just extended their reservations for XMN, CKG, TFU. 

[kandiah k 0]

Cambodia Airways to begin Kuala Lumpur 

Cambodia Airways will begin flights from PNH to KUL beginning mid April 2024

KR781 PNH 1320LT - 1615LT KUL 2, 4

KR781 PNH 1420LT - 1715LT KUL 7

 

KR782 KUL 1715LT - 1830LT PNH 2,4

KR782 KUL 1815LT - 1935LT PNH 7

 

They will utilize the A319

[kandiah k 0]

US-Bangla to upgrade KUL to a widebody aircraft

Effective 25APR24, 1 daily A330-300 replacing the B737-800

BS315 DAC 0850LT - 1450LT 

BS316 KUL 1550LT - 1750LT

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240403-bsns24333

[kandiah k 0]

Vietnam Airlines to reduce KUL eff 31MAR24

Hanoi - Kuala Lumpur Reduces from 4 to 3 weekly 

Saigon - Kuala Lumpur Reduces from 7 to 4 weekly 

 

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240403-vnns24asia

[JuliusWong 0]

On 4/5/2024 at 4:40 AM, kandiah k said:

Vietnam Airlines to reduce KUL eff 31MAR24

Hanoi - Kuala Lumpur Reduces from 4 to 3 weekly 

Saigon - Kuala Lumpur Reduces from 7 to 4 weekly 

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240403-vnns24asia

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.

[kandiah k 0]

Emirates Reduces KUL & Equipment Change 

Emirates, effective 22APR24 - 04JUN24 will reduce KUL from 21 weekly to 20 weekly:-

EK344/345 DXB-KUL, KUL-DXB - 6 weekly B777-300ER

EK346/347 DXB-KUL, KUL-DXB - 7 weekly B777-300ER (effective 31MAR24)

EK342/343 DXB-KUL, KUL-DXB - 7 weekly A380-800 (effective 01JUN24)

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240409-ekns24

[kandiah k 0]

Qatar Maintains 2nd Daily Flight to KUL 

Qatar Airways effective 31MAR24 will continue to operate QR852/853 DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH utilising a B777-300ER. The other flights between DOH and KUL are operated by both MH and QR as follows :-

QR844/845 - DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH 7 weekly - B777-300ER 

MH161/160 - DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH 7 weekly - A350-900

MH163/164 - DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH 7 weekly - A350-900

Combined services by MH and QR between DOH and KUL stands at 4 daily flights (2 QR and 2 MH)

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240409-qrns24

[JuliusWong 0]

13 minutes ago, kandiah k said:

Qatar Maintains 2nd Daily Flight to KUL 

Qatar Airways effective 31MAR24 will continue to operate QR852/853 DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH utilising a B777-300ER. The other flights between DOH and KUL are operated by both MH and QR as follows :-

QR844/845 - DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH 7 weekly - B777-300ER 

MH161/160 - DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH 7 weekly - A350-900

MH163/164 - DOH-KUL, KUL-DOH 7 weekly - A350-900

Combined services by MH and QR between DOH and KUL stands at 4 daily flights (2 QR and 2 MH)

https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240409-qrns24

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

[Izanee 0]

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

 

 

[Izanee 0]

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!

[KK Lee 5]

19 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

Many online travel agents give higher volume/sales and wider market reach to EK than Mas; Mas price couldn't be competitive. Besides MYS domestic destinations, mas brought little to the table for EK.

 

58 minutes ago, Izanee said:

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!

Airlines alliance meant to take advantage of partners' network.

Whether Mueller was in charge or not at that time, mas was to shrink its European network and Kangaroo route, and still have no plan to rebuild. Also at that time, EK was the only airlines willing to work/partner with MH.

 

Edited April 10 by KK Lee

[sweekee 0]

5 hours ago, Izanee said:

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

 

 

https://english.vov.vn/en/society/two-vietnamese-airlines-ground-40-aircraft-due-to-engine-inspection-post1075076.vov

Maybe these issues 

[jahur 0]

Vn has just issued out an rfp to lease 4 narrowbody aircraft short term with tenure to start between June to late october. 

Vietnam Airlines issues Summer 2024 wet-lease RFP

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has already said that the country's airlines are currently facing a severe shortage of aircraft, noting that 42 aircraft will be taken out of service this year for engine inspections.

Those PW Leaps are also causing problems to Cebu Pacific.  Not sure how Scoot will handle their E-2's along with SKS. Its also the same story for the A220.

Embraer less affected by Pratt engine issues but not immune, executive says

Edited April 10 by jahur

[JuliusWong 0]

On 4/10/2024 at 9:58 AM, Izanee said:

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!

Yes, Qatar Airways is a keen partner to Malaysia Airlines and is keen to share revenue through the code sharing and partnership. Now that Qatar Airways is being blocked from increasing their flight into Australia, Malaysia Airlines partnership is even more important to them. Hence why Malaysia Airlines is keen in returning to Brisbane. We should be seeing an AU/NZ market build-up once the A330neo delivery starts in the last quarter of this year.

Yes, Christoph Mueller chose the easy way out by chopping off the European network (except for London Heathrow) by signing up the lopsided deal with EK. There were many other airlines who were keen to work with Malaysia Airlines, especially Qatar Airways being in the same alliance. He even wanted to sacrifice MH's LHR slots to EK. If it wasn't for Malaysia gomen intervention, we wouldn't even have MH1/2/3/4 nowadays and the A350 fleet will be made redundant.

On 4/10/2024 at 10:50 AM, KK Lee said:

Many online travel agents give higher volume/sales and wider market reach to EK than Mas; Mas price couldn't be competitive. Besides MYS domestic destinations, mas brought little to the table for EK.

Airlines alliance meant to take advantage of partners' network.

Whether Mueller was in charge or not at that time, mas was to shrink its European network and Kangaroo route, and still have no plan to rebuild. Also at that time, EK was the only airlines willing to work/partner with MH.

When we say airline alliance, it depends the scope of the agreement. Malaysia Airlines feeds Emirates pax from across Malaysia, South East Asia and Australia/ New Zealand as both Emirates and Etihad simply could not fully utilize their UAE-Australia open skies 168 weekly flight allocation. Emirates behaves like a master to leech off their partners and keep all the revenue and pax to themselves, case in point MH has largely downsized the deal and chose to partner in wider scale with Japan Airlines and Qatar Airways. Another good example would be Qantas. It has also scaled down their joint-venture with EK considerably and move their Asia back to Singapore, after a few years in Dubai. The issue now is Jetstar Asia has now been forced to Terminal 4 in SIN, because the Singapore gomen and Changi has taken offense QF moved their operation base to Dubai previously. Jetstar/ Qantas/ Emirates used to have a huge operation in SIN, much bigger than KUL, after the Jetstar drama and QF's own self-afflicted drama the current operation is a shadow of the past. This is all the dark politics that so-called squeaky clean Singapore gomen plays that a lot of locals don't see. Unlike Emirates, Qatar Airways see Malaysia Airlines as an equal partner with 50/50 partnerships. Emirates took total advantage of Malaysia Airlines's downfall for its own benefit.

And no. Emirates is not the only airline that were willing to work with Malaysia Airlines. You may refer to my reply to Izanee's post. Malaysia Airlines needed to abandon its European route as they simply could not cover the operation cost. The flights were almost always full but the cost was more than what the revenue could cover. Moreover, they were retiring the B777 fleet after double disasters MH17 and MH370 with no new fleet capable of doing those routes with consistent profit. Fare dumping by the big ME3 made the situation even worse. Better to cancel those routes than dumping more money into bottomless pit. As for rebuilding European network, AMS and CDG are planned for return in 2025/2026 onwards. A330neo would be able to do both destinations comfortably. Captain Izham has stated they are looking to return to Brisbane with A330neos. With the resumption, Malaysia Airlines will be the only Malaysia-based airline to connect Malaysia with all five major int'l airports in Australia: PER, BNE, SYD, MEL and ADL. Malaysia Airlines is also looking to add another three more A350s by end of the decade.