Naim 6 Report post Posted March 28, 2013 I've been browsing scanned images of old Malaysian newspapers in the fantastic Google archive, and spotted some interesting stuff. So here are the first two ... anybody found anything (aviation-related) interesting from that archive, pls post here too. Quite interesting to read how things were, say 40 years ago! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Y. J. Foo 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2013 45 daily flights?? That has got to be the most frequent ever for any city pairs. Wonder how many flights are there nowadays between KUL/SZB-SIN by all carriers combined. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naim 6 Report post Posted March 28, 2013 This was how they promoted the B707 back then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alif A. F. 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2013 Google news archive is very valuable, in terms of aviation related news the ones I found so far are: - In 1980's, planned Concorde charter flight to BKI as part of the round the world tour, but was later dropped. - The Tanjung Kupang incident. - A hijacked airliner landed in BKI for refueling before continuing to middle east. Happened somewhere in 70's. The hijackers were Southern Philippines separatist group. - Pan Am flying boat made its maiden voyage to Singapore, somewhere in 1940's. - A US Air Force aircraft en route to BKI crashed in South China Sea, but the crew were rescued by Vietnamese fishermen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Suzanne Goh 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2013 45 daily flights! Wow. I really missed (for a while) the super early and super late KUL-SIN-KUL runs - until now where at least AK has them covered. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flee 5 Report post Posted March 28, 2013 MSA and their successors, MAS and SIA, used to have YN (night economy) fares at RM 29.50. The flights are those that depart early in the morning (first flight) and late at night (last flight). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
affendi osman 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2013 MSA and their successors, MAS and SIA, used to have YN (night economy) fares at RM 29.50. The flights are those that depart early in the morning (first flight) and late at night (last flight). RM29.50 nowadays.....2 plates of Nando's 1/4 meal with 2 sidelines, plus 2 drinks.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BC Tam 2 Report post Posted March 29, 2013 Wow, had no idea MH started off KUL-BKI with 3x weekly only (journalistic goof-off or typo notwithstanding) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mohd Suhaimi Fariz 2 Report post Posted April 21, 2013 I found these screenies of my own Google archive searches from the 90s: I guess in 1990 RM 3,500 was big money. How times have changed! Flying through HNL to LAX twice weekly - anybody knew when did they reroute to NRT/TPE? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naim 6 Report post Posted April 21, 2013 Even now 3.5k is still big money! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
