jahur 0 Report post Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Craig said: FY's ATR are around 10 years old now? I agree that the A220 is great for passenger comfort. And I can see some cities around Malaysia or secondary/tertiary ASEAN cities that FY/AK/MH can serve with the A220/Embraers (the 737/320 looks oversize). But if FY were to get those A220/Ejets, they'd need to operate out of KUL instead of SZB since they are technically jet and not props (and I am not sure how Raya Airways get away with it with their 757/767s at SZB)? Yeap most are averaging 12 years old now with the oldest approaching 14 very soon. Reports from Maswings and Firefly that their atr72 were already having growing tech issue begining of 2013. There was a critical period when i recall Maswing only had 6 aircrafts and 4 were aog no spare to cushion the operational impact. In the old days 10% of your fleet would be on standby for such situation. Dwindling yields etc nowdays its pretty much 100% utilisation. The a220 can operate out of SZB but dont think it can properly hold the same amount of aircrafts than the atr72 fleet due to the larger size. One thing i did notice overseas was the regional jet fares technically being slightly higher than the 320/737 counterpart throughout. Not sure if msia would be able to accept it or not knowing we are a very price sensitive market. As for operational issue in SZB. New gen aircrafts are technically quiet and should not be a noise burden nowadays. Raya 767 757 and old days 727 were a lot more noisier and as of today they still have early 2am morning arrivals not forgetting RMAFs c130s and a400ms so doubt noise concerns is the issue. SZB is just being constrained to avoid cannibalizing part of KLIAs traffic hence the turboprops only while Raya operating as cargo were not affected. Edited September 12, 2022 by jahur Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JuliusWong 0 Report post Posted September 14, 2022 Not sure what happened with MAG purchase of 36 ATR 72-600s back in 2013. 20 firm orders + 16 options. It was one of the ATR's largest order for that year. Only 12 were delivered and the first copy only saw operation with FY for only three years, and the last was only in operation for four months before they were sent away. 9M-FIA MSN 1093 Delivered: 2013 Left: 4 May 2016 Now with PK-NYY NAM Air 9M-MYA MSN 1099 Delivered: 25 Jul 2013 Left: 28 Dec 2015 Now with D4-BFA Bestfly Cabo Verde 9M-FIB MSN 1128 Delivered: 20 Dec 2013 Left: 19 Jun 2016 Now with PK-NYZ NAM Air 9M-MYB MSN 1153 Delivered: 23 May 2014 Left: 31 Dec 2015 Now with PK-NYU NAM Air 9M-FIC MSN 1158 Delivered: 1 Jul 2014 Left: 23 Apr 2016 Now with PK-NYW NAM Air 9M-MYC MSN 1170 Delivered: 8 Aug 2014 Left: 21 Dec 2015 Now with PK-NYT NAM Air 9M-FID MSN 1178 Delivered: 24 Sep 2014 Left: 30 Oct 2016 Now with UR-RWA Windrose Airlines 9M-MYD MSN 1187 Delivered: Nov 2014 Left: 9 Aug 2016 Now with PK-TVM Travira Air 9M-FIE MSN 1235 Delivered: 5 Mar 2015 Left: 29 Oct 2016 Now with PR-PFD Imetame 9M-FIF MSN 1259 Delivered: 3 Jul 2015 Left: 29 Oct 2016 Now with YU-ALY Air Serbia 9M-FIG MSN 1262 Delivered: 28 Aug 2015 Left: 29 Oct 2016 Now with UR-RWB Windrose Airlines 9M-FIH MSN 1285 Delivered: 28 Apr 2016 Left: 28 Oct 2016 Now with TR-ABJ Afrijet Business Service Source: https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Malaysia-Aviation-Group Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jahur 0 Report post Posted September 14, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, JuliusWong said: Not sure what happened with MAG purchase of 36 ATR 72-600s back in 2013. 20 firm orders + 16 options. It was one of the ATR's largest order for that year. Last heard the option to execute the remaining atr's can be done its just up to MAG. They may also allow MAG to transfer some of the unfulfilled orders to ATR EVO as the turboprop market has not been doing that well so far. Unfortunately limited funding and cash reserve it can only commit the 737 and 330 replacement. I still think it was stupid for the state gov of east msia and MOT to bulldozed the operational flight subsidies for the 600 series. They were adamant for MASwings to use the atr72-500 like the old fokker days until it rots after 15-16 years of use then probably only signalling for a new aircraft order. Aircrafts are just not that long lasting nowadays. Also for them to think Airasia would takeover RAS completely in 2016 knowing there are still so many airports in east msia not capable of handling a320s and these type of flights are in no way profitable commercially. Its same old buy new stuff and use em til it rot no renewal nor upkeep while the neighbours are not that stupid. Edited September 14, 2022 by jahur Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 0 Report post Posted September 16, 2022 On 9/12/2022 at 10:58 AM, jahur said: One thing i did notice overseas was the regional jet fares technically being slightly higher than the 320/737 counterpart throughout. Not sure if msia would be able to accept it or not knowing we are a very price sensitive market. As for operational issue in SZB. New gen aircrafts are technically quiet and should not be a noise burden nowadays. Raya 767 757 and old days 727 were a lot more noisier and as of today they still have early 2am morning arrivals not forgetting RMAFs c130s and a400ms so doubt noise concerns is the issue. SZB is just being constrained to avoid cannibalizing part of KLIAs traffic hence the turboprops only while Raya operating as cargo were not affected. FY/OD (prop) fares are a notch higher than the equivalent at KLIA for most part (comparing FY and MH, OD prop vs OD jet, not with AK). About Rm20-50 higher each way (at least in my experience). I thought SZB is strictly prop (RMAF etc are exempted) and KLIA is for jet services, although I maybe wrong (not for noise control but they didn't want to cannibalize KLIA traffic as you say). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tom/PER 0 Report post Posted September 17, 2022 Looks like the controversially reconfigured -MXV has finally re-entered service this morning on a KL-TWU-KL rotation. Does anyone know what they ended up doing with the J class cabin/seats? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jahur 0 Report post Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Tom/PER said: Looks like the controversially reconfigured -MXV has finally re-entered service this morning on a KL-TWU-KL rotation. Does anyone know what they ended up doing with the J class cabin/seats? J cabin fitted with 12 Safran z500 seats. KUL-TWU pure j customers do not necessarily take up 16 seats so unlikely anyone got downgraded. Though websites are still selling 16seats for other flights that mxv may fly to so its may be potential nightmare there. Also i am not sure if they have fixed the inseat power supply shortage though. MXV deployment was initially delayed as passengers seated on the Isle, window seat do not have charging capability for their portable devices as the vendor was unable to supply them on schedule with the current usb c global shortage. Guess in the end they still have to fly them. Passengers on the middle seat will have fast charging capability and all passengers on business class are unaffected. Wireless IFE is working except some stuff still had to be done manually by the cabin crew as well. Edited September 17, 2022 by jahur Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flee 5 Report post Posted September 26, 2022 No buyers, Malaysia Airlines to return six A380 to Airbus? https://www.nst.com.my/business/2022/09/834438/no-buyers-malaysia-airlines-return-six-a380-airbus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JuliusWong 0 Report post Posted October 20, 2022 Malaysia Airlines to increase operations between Kuala Lumpur and Japan https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2022/10/20/malaysia-airlines-to-increase-operations-between-kuala-lumpur-and-japan/34708?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_channel=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3rjb92VKEAqlGyrJwiFxUTLHjkdR2_BkYuuxGZYlsdS42OGJt5PbBXz3w#Echobox=1666256660 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 — Malaysia Airlines will be increasing its flight frequency to and from Tokyo, Japan from twice-weekly to thrice-weekly service on its newest Haneda (HND) route, and from five times weekly to daily service on the Narita (NRT) route beginning November 1, 2022. In addition, it said the airline’s frequency into Osaka (KIX) has increased from thrice to five times weekly since October 2022. Tokyo Haneda: MH36 from KUL to HND departs at 3pm, and the return leg MH37 departs from HND at 12.30am local time. Tokyo Narita: MH88 from KUL to NRT departs at 11.35pm and MH89 departs from NRT at 10.05am local time. Osaka: MH52 departs from KUL to KIX at 10.40pm and MH53 departs from KIX to KUL at 9.55am local time. MASwings to stop flying to East Kalimantan https://www.theborneopost.com/2022/10/20/maswings-to-stop-flying-to-east-kalimantan/?fbclid=IwAR1AFX6ocXyVpI1TYyItJPZIve_GgdEwRS9rFMNZ9ICoO9Qs8eI1y1WgKos KOTA KINABALU: MASwings has decided to cease operations between Tawau and Tarakan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, effective 30 October 2022. MASwings Chief Operating Officer, Captain Nasaruddin A. Bakar explained, “After a thorough business review, we have taken a difficult decision to discontinue our operations into Tarakan. Despite efforts being put in place as the border opens to sustain the operations, it is an extremely challenging operating condition and no longer commercially viable for MASwings to resume operations. MASwings wishes to record and express its heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to its customers and stakeholders who have supported MASwings and its Tarakan operations since 2012. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC Tam 2 Report post Posted October 27, 2022 On 8/21/2022 at 12:10 PM, BC Tam said: Things must be changing at MH - they making a reappearance on BKI-SIN from 27 Aug apparently 😀 Nope, doesn't look likely experiment worked out well - don't see any more flights beyond end of the week Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chris Tan 0 Report post Posted October 28, 2022 18 hours ago, BC Tam said: Nope, doesn't look likely experiment worked out well - don't see any more flights beyond end of the week A bit like the short-lived PEN-SIN reappearance Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 0 Report post Posted October 29, 2022 On 10/27/2022 at 3:42 PM, BC Tam said: Nope, doesn't look likely experiment worked out well - don't see any more flights beyond end of the week Summer seasonal flights 😛. This weekend is beginning of winter schedule. 23 hours ago, Chris Tan said: A bit like the short-lived PEN-SIN reappearance I find it odd that they FY can fly PEN-HKT 4x on 738 but MH won't let them do at least once daily PEN-SIN (their previous 2-3 weekly flights were awful). In other news, MH will add southern summer seasonal flights to SYD and MEL. SYD goes from 14x 330 to 15 x 330 MEL goes for 14x 330 to 14x 330 and 2x 359 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 0 Report post Posted October 29, 2022 Did an intern forgot to update MH's winter schedule? 😂 Is MH really upping their frequencies to CGK 5 daily beginning this Sunday? And DPS from 10x to 21x 😂 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Robert 0 Report post Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) Similar for Singapore. This is a big uplift from the current 3-4 per day however the 332/333 is no more. Flight Stops Depart Arrive Aircraft Duration Frequency Effective Ending 0 connections MH 601 0 KUL 7:50 AM SIN 9:05 AM 738 1 hr 15 mins M,T,W,Th,F,Sa 11/01/22 11/15/22 0 connections MH 611 0 KUL 9:10 AM SIN 10:20 AM 738 1 hr 10 mins Daily 10/30/22 03/25/23 0 connections MH 627 0 KUL 10:50 AM SIN 11:55 AM 738 1 hr 5 mins M,Sa,Su 10/30/22 03/25/23 0 connections MH 603 0 KUL 11:50 AM SIN 12:55 PM 738 1 hr 5 mins Daily 10/31/22 11/20/22 0 connections MH 623 0 KUL 1:05 PM SIN 2:10 PM 738 1 hr 5 mins F,Su 10/30/22 03/24/23 0 connections MH 619 0 KUL 2:20 PM SIN 3:30 PM 738 1 hr 10 mins M,F,Su 10/30/22 03/24/23 0 connections MH 605 0 KUL 3:25 PM SIN 4:35 PM 738 1 hr 10 mins Daily 10/30/22 03/25/23 0 connections MH 613 0 KUL 5:20 PM SIN 6:25 PM 738 1 hr 5 mins Daily 10/30/22 03/25/23 0 connections MH 607 0 KUL 7:25 PM SIN 8:35 PM 738 1 hr 10 mins Daily 10/30/22 03/25/23 0 connections MH 609 0 KUL 11:20 PM SIN 12:30 AM +1 738 1 hr 10 mins Daily 10/30/22 11/13/22 Edited October 30, 2022 by Robert Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC Tam 2 Report post Posted November 2, 2022 According to FR24, some really interesting stuff happening in east Malaysia from this month on MasWings gonna fly A320s, not had a peek anywhere yet, must have been such a highly classified project ..... 😁 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC Tam 2 Report post Posted November 2, 2022 And here the big one - AK flying BKI-Pelotas, Brazil and KCH-Pelotas, twice daily, each route 😮 Pity about their BKI-PEN and KCH-PEN services though, dropped just like that, FY must have really beaten the stuffing out of AK there 😄 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alif A. F. 0 Report post Posted November 2, 2022 53 minutes ago, BC Tam said: And here the big one - AK flying BKI-Pelotas, Brazil and KCH-Pelotas, twice daily, each route 😮 Pity about their BKI-PEN and KCH-PEN services though, dropped just like that, FY must have really beaten the stuffing out of AK there 😄 Is this an error on the part from FR24? I don't understand this.😅 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC Tam 2 Report post Posted November 2, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Alif A. F. said: Is this an error on the part from FR24? I don't understand this.😅 PEN vs PET ? Someone typing too quickly ? 😁 Anyway, Wiki says PET is domestic only ...... Btw, anyone knows how and who input the FR24 data ? I mean the flight routes and flight details ? Edited November 2, 2022 by BC Tam Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JuliusWong 0 Report post Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) Malaysia Airlines launches Kuala Lumpur-Yogyakarta twice-weekly direct flights https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2022/11/02/malaysia-airlines-launches-kuala-lumpur-yogyakarta-twice-weekly-direct-flights/37055 JAKARTA, Nov 2 — Malaysia Airlines has launched a new twice-weekly direct flight between Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday and Sunday, effective today. Flight MH857 departs KUL to Yogyakarta at 5.40pm and flight MH856 departs Yogyakarta to KUL at 8.30pm, will be operated by 160-seater B737-800 aircraft, the airline said in a statement. The new service marks its network expansion strategy, bringing the existing network within Indonesia to six cities, including Jakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya, Medan and Pekanbaru. Hope this time the route will last longer. This is MH's third attempt for Yogyakarta. First attempt was to replace GA between February 2008 until August 2011, x257 with B737-400. Then it resumed from June 2018 with 4 weekly 737-800 service, and it was very shortlived, suspended few months later. MH857 KUL0945 – 1120JOG 738 x456 MH856 JOG1220 – 1555KUL 738 x456 Edited November 3, 2022 by JuliusWong Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kandiah k 0 Report post Posted November 8, 2022 Source : https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/221108-sqmhcodeshare MAS & SIA to code share on certain European routes (including LHR) Singapore Airlines (SQ) and Malaysia Airlines (MH) at the launch of Northern winter 2022/23 season expands codeshare partnership to Europe, covering service to London Heathrow and Rome. Planned codeshare schedule from 30OCT22 as follows. Kuala Lumpur – London Heathrow MH004/SQ5654 KUL0905 – 1525LHR 359 D MH002/SQ5652 KUL2330 – 0535+1LHR 359 D MH003/SQ5653 LHR1025 – 0715+1KUL 359 D MH001/SQ5651 LHR2125 – 1820+1LUL 359 D Singapore – London Heathrow SQ306/MH5754 SIN0110 – 0720LHR 77W D SQ307/MH5758 SIN0900 – 1520LHR 388 D SQ318/MH5760 SIN1245 – 1910LHR 359 D SQ322/MH5762 SIN2345 – 0555+1LHR 388 D SQ305/MH5759 LHR0910 – 0605+1SIN 77W D SQ317/MH5719 LHR1055 – 0750+1SIN 388 D SQ319/MH5761 LHR2035 – 1730+1SIN 388 D SQ321/MH5765 LHR2205 – 1900+1SIN 359 D Singapore – Rome SQ366/MH5820 SIN0205 – 0820FCO 359 257 SQ365/MH5819 FCO1050 – 0540+1SIN 359 257 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Riza 0 Report post Posted November 9, 2022 On 10/20/2022 at 6:57 PM, JuliusWong said: Malaysia Airlines to increase operations between Kuala Lumpur and Japan https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2022/10/20/malaysia-airlines-to-increase-operations-between-kuala-lumpur-and-japan/34708?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_channel=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3rjb92VKEAqlGyrJwiFxUTLHjkdR2_BkYuuxGZYlsdS42OGJt5PbBXz3w#Echobox=1666256660 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 — Malaysia Airlines will be increasing its flight frequency to and from Tokyo, Japan from twice-weekly to thrice-weekly service on its newest Haneda (HND) route, and from five times weekly to daily service on the Narita (NRT) route beginning November 1, 2022. In addition, it said the airline’s frequency into Osaka (KIX) has increased from thrice to five times weekly since October 2022. Tokyo Haneda: MH36 from KUL to HND departs at 3pm, and the return leg MH37 departs from HND at 12.30am local time. Tokyo Narita: MH88 from KUL to NRT departs at 11.35pm and MH89 departs from NRT at 10.05am local time. Osaka: MH52 departs from KUL to KIX at 10.40pm and MH53 departs from KIX to KUL at 9.55am local time. MASwings to stop flying to East Kalimantan https://www.theborneopost.com/2022/10/20/maswings-to-stop-flying-to-east-kalimantan/?fbclid=IwAR1AFX6ocXyVpI1TYyItJPZIve_GgdEwRS9rFMNZ9ICoO9Qs8eI1y1WgKos KOTA KINABALU: MASwings has decided to cease operations between Tawau and Tarakan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, effective 30 October 2022. MASwings Chief Operating Officer, Captain Nasaruddin A. Bakar explained, “After a thorough business review, we have taken a difficult decision to discontinue our operations into Tarakan. Despite efforts being put in place as the border opens to sustain the operations, it is an extremely challenging operating condition and no longer commercially viable for MASwings to resume operations. MASwings wishes to record and express its heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to its customers and stakeholders who have supported MASwings and its Tarakan operations since 2012. Is it lucky for MH to get the HND slot or has the Japanese is releasing a new slot from other airline? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JuliusWong 0 Report post Posted November 9, 2022 7 hours ago, Riza said: Is it lucky for MH to get the HND slot or has the Japanese is releasing a new slot from other airline? I could not get to open Mavcom website to check on the allocation. I think MH should have four slots now? Two for landings and two for take off, before this was nil after the controversial share swap Uncle Tony took everything with him. AirAsia X is also back at Haneda two days ago, 3 x weekly (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). MH has Sunday, Wednesday, Friday. Please correct me if I am wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sandeep G 1 Report post Posted November 10, 2022 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/malaysia-airlines-is-considering-doubling-boeing-737-max-order Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC Tam 2 Report post Posted November 10, 2022 Well, maybe they can have another one of those 'MOU to explore possibility of purchase' drawn up quickly, to be presented at any upcoming PM of MY (whoever it may be) meeting with POTUS as proof of MY's commitment towards US's economic growth and prosperity ? 😁 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JuliusWong 0 Report post Posted November 11, 2022 Read on a Facebook page the first A380 will be leaving for Lourdes, France for further storage, maybe scrapping too, on November 14, 2022. Others will follow subsequently. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 0 Report post Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) On 11/9/2022 at 1:03 PM, Riza said: Is it lucky for MH to get the HND slot or has the Japanese is releasing a new slot from other airline? JP gave MY another 7 weekly (non daytime) HND traffic rights provided that Malaysian operator code-shares with a Japanese carrier on the new HND flight. MH can increase HND to daily now if it wants to but I don't think that'll happen until NS23. Mavcom had already allocated those 7 traffic rights to MH earlier this year. Let's see if JP will re-allocate RU's daytime slots (like Heathrow did). On 11/9/2022 at 9:07 PM, JuliusWong said: I could not get to open Mavcom website to check on the allocation. I think MH should have four slots now? Two for landings and two for take off, before this was nil after the controversial share swap Uncle Tony took everything with him. AirAsia X is also back at Haneda two days ago, 3 x weekly (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). MH has Sunday, Wednesday, Friday. Please correct me if I am wrong. Traffic rights, more often than not, are given in multiples of 7. Airlines don't usually tow their planes e.g. from HND to NRT if only 7 was given to HND whilst unlimited at NRT. Edited November 11, 2022 by Craig Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
