Jump to content
MalaysianWings - Malaysia's Premier Aviation Portal
BC Tam

MASwings

Recommended Posts

East Malaysia keen to take over MASwings from troubled national carrier
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/east-malaysia-keen-to-take-over-maswings-from-troubled-national-carrier

MASwings provides domestic and rural air service in the two states via a fleet of turbo-prop aircraft – principally French-built ATR72 and ageing Twin Otters.

So the author doesn't seem to know anything about the newly arrived Vikings :)

 

 

 

 

 

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

it sounds good to let sabah and sarawak to have MASWings as they knows what they need to do.... but they need to bear in mond that taking up the Rural Air Service is more to social responsibility and rarely you make money out of it (in terms of airline revenue).

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites
Putrajaya spends RM900 million on rural air services in Sabah, Sarawak

Published: 3 December 2015 7:46 AM


The government has spent almost RM900 million on rural air services (RAS) since 2007 until now, to assist the people in Sabah and Sarawak use air transport to every town and area in both states.


Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said RAS could strengthen national integration, besides boosting connectivity between the peninsula and the two states in Borneo.


“AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) had increased flights and their frequencies from October, whereby AirAsia increased its Kuala Lumpur-Sibu flight frequencies from 35 to 41 per week.”


He said this in reply to a question from Datuk Juslie Ajirol (Barisan Nasiona-Libaran) on follow-up efforts to boost the land transport sector and air terminals, particularly the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA), which had contributed a lot to strengthening national integration.


Aziz said for KKIA, the government had upgraded its Terminal 1 at a cost of RM1.7 billion to raise its handling capacity up to nine million passengers a year.


“This capacity is expected to meet the operational needs until 2020,” he said, adding that 70 per cent of the RAS users were domestic passengers at KKIA flying between towns and to the rural areas,” he said.


On the suggestion by Datuk Dr Marcus Mojigoh (BN-Putatan) to change the RAS name to Regional Air System, Aziz said the government had no intention to do so as it wanted to enhance national integration through community air services in Sabah and Sarawak.


“RAS has made it easier for the local people in Sabah and Sarawak to move about and if we change the name to ‘regional’, it will only benefit the foreigners,” he said. – Bernama, December 3, 2015.




RM900 million in 8 years or about RM110 million per year on RAS?!


Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

 

Putrajaya spends RM900 million on rural air services in Sabah, Sarawak

Published: 3 December 2015 7:46 AM

 

The government has spent almost RM900 million on rural air services (RAS) since 2007 until now, to assist the people in Sabah and Sarawak use air transport to every town and area in both states.

 

Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said RAS could strengthen national integration, besides boosting connectivity between the peninsula and the two states in Borneo.

 

AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) had increased flights and their frequencies from October, whereby AirAsia increased its Kuala Lumpur-Sibu flight frequencies from 35 to 41 per week.

 

He said this in reply to a question from Datuk Juslie Ajirol (Barisan Nasiona-Libaran) on follow-up efforts to boost the land transport sector and air terminals, particularly the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA), which had contributed a lot to strengthening national integration.

 

Aziz said for KKIA, the government had upgraded its Terminal 1 at a cost of RM1.7 billion to raise its handling capacity up to nine million passengers a year.

 

This capacity is expected to meet the operational needs until 2020, he said, adding that 70 per cent of the RAS users were domestic passengers at KKIA flying between towns and to the rural areas, he said.

 

On the suggestion by Datuk Dr Marcus Mojigoh (BN-Putatan) to change the RAS name to Regional Air System, Aziz said the government had no intention to do so as it wanted to enhance national integration through community air services in Sabah and Sarawak.

 

RAS has made it easier for the local people in Sabah and Sarawak to move about and if we change the name to regional, it will only benefit the foreigners, he said. Bernama, December 3, 2015.

 

- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/putrajaya-spends-rm900-million-on-rural-air-services-in-sabah-sarawak#sthash.xpFvYMzY.dpuf

 

RM900 million in 8 years or about RM110 million per year on RAS?!

 

Does it include the Viking Twotter purchase as well?

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

 

Putrajaya spends RM900 million on rural air services in Sabah, Sarawak
Published: 3 December 2015 7:46 AM
The government has spent almost RM900 million on rural air services (RAS) since 2007 until now, to assist the people in Sabah and Sarawak use air transport to every town and area in both states.
Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said RAS could strengthen national integration, besides boosting connectivity between the peninsula and the two states in Borneo.
“AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) had increased flights and their frequencies from October, whereby AirAsia increased its Kuala Lumpur-Sibu flight frequencies from 35 to 41 per week.”
He said this in reply to a question from Datuk Juslie Ajirol (Barisan Nasiona-Libaran) on follow-up efforts to boost the land transport sector and air terminals, particularly the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA), which had contributed a lot to strengthening national integration.
Aziz said for KKIA, the government had upgraded its Terminal 1 at a cost of RM1.7 billion to raise its handling capacity up to nine million passengers a year.
“This capacity is expected to meet the operational needs until 2020,” he said, adding that 70 per cent of the RAS users were domestic passengers at KKIA flying between towns and to the rural areas,” he said.
On the suggestion by Datuk Dr Marcus Mojigoh (BN-Putatan) to change the RAS name to Regional Air System, Aziz said the government had no intention to do so as it wanted to enhance national integration through community air services in Sabah and Sarawak.
“RAS has made it easier for the local people in Sabah and Sarawak to move about and if we change the name to ‘regional’, it will only benefit the foreigners,” he said. – Bernama, December 3, 2015.
RM900 million in 8 years or about RM110 million per year on RAS?!

 

 

surely some money goes to somewhere as it is typical malaysian style, but RAS is a need for people in Borneo area. the positive effect of the economy and development surely there.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

surely some money goes to somewhere as it is typical malaysian style, but RAS is a need for people in Borneo area. the positive effect of the economy and development surely there.

Over the long term, RAS is a waste of good money. The money spent on RAS would be better spent on land infrastructure for the remote areas of Borneo to enable better connectivity for them. Building roads and railways is really the least they could do for the Borneo people.

Edited by flee

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Over the long term, RAS is a waste of good money. The money spent on RAS would be better spent on land infrastructure for the remote areas of Borneo to enable better connectivity for them. Building roads and railways is really the least they could do for the Borneo people.

Nah, someone needs to be scarified to keep current government in power. Not happening in this lifetime...

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

I'd believe MASWings Engineering dept lack the number of staffs after the termination exercise morale has gone low. Also they lack many ATR spare parts kept many of the planes going AOG from time to time. Delays from parent company MAS probably also due to the fact that MASWings is the non profiting unit thats bleeding MAS. MAS probably had to do careful decisions and auditing before sending in goods and resources to MASWings.

Edited by jahur

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Definitely there has been delays. I personally know there has been delays, or rather, 2 flights combined to 1, to Lahad Datu. The earlier flight was 'cancelled due to technical issue' and pax were moved to a later flight. And this has happened twice. Food vouchers were given and pax had to wait for about 2 hours for the next flight.

 

As for ATR72-600 series (AT76), I only know of one AT76 active in MasWings, MYD though I haven't seen her flying lately. AT76 MYB & MYC has been transferred to Subang, for Firefly presumably. No idea where is MYA. So much subsidy gone into MasWing and its bleeding heavily. Oh my. Proton?

 

EDIT NOTE ADDED:

 

FR24 MasWings Fleet database: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/maswings-mwg

 

For AT76s, MYD last flown on 18/3/16. MYA, MYB, MYC no info. (though elsewhere me and Jahur did mention MYB & MYC transferred.)

 

Difficulty with AT75 is it does not broadcast ADS-B like AT76/A320/B738 so data could be lacking for tracking.

Edited by Eddy Liew

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

MASWings maybe better off privatised, sold to some rich tycoon like what Saega Airlines found by Ting Pek Khiing. They have not make any profit since Day 1 in operation. I can believe the RAS operation has been around for ages and yet no one can stop the bleed till today......something fishy going on?

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Definitely there has been delays. I personally know there has been delays, or rather, 2 flights combined to 1, to Lahad Datu. The earlier flight was 'cancelled due to technical issue' and pax were moved to a later flight. And this has happened twice. Food vouchers were given and pax had to wait for about 2 hours for the next flight.

 

That's scary. So half day tour may not be possible if say you travel there on first flight and return around noon. If they cancel the first flight then your return flight might be irrelevant.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

MASWings maybe better off privatised, sold to some rich tycoon like what Saega Airlines found by Ting Pek Khiing. They have not make any profit since Day 1 in operation. I can believe the RAS operation has been around for ages and yet no one can stop the bleed till today......something fishy going on?

Knowing the sugar daddy will pay the bill regardless; why not take the opportunity to the fullest, enjoy while it last.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

MASWings maybe better off privatised, sold to some rich tycoon like what Saega Airlines found by Ting Pek Khiing. They have not make any profit since Day 1 in operation. I can believe the RAS operation has been around for ages and yet no one can stop the bleed till today......something fishy going on?

You'd be amazed on the passenger loads RAS brings. Some of the flights on low demand seasons on the DH6 carried only 4 passengers while on the ATR they are even flights bringing in only 1 passenger. The smart move would be to cancel or terminate the sector. However the flight has to go on to keep the locals from getting angry as access to their area is difficult.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Also my sibling's friend told me that on her LWY-BKI flight, she was the only passenger in the DHC6. A true VIP experience huh.

 

With the serious upgrade of Pan Borneo highway, maybe air travel could be affected.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

You'd be amazed on the passenger loads RAS brings. Some of the flights on low demand seasons on the DH6 carried only 4 passengers while on the ATR they are even flights bringing in only 1 passenger. The smart move would be to cancel or terminate the sector. However the flight has to go on to keep the locals from getting angry as access to their area is difficult.

If the demand is so bad, shouldn't the airline implement a better model to ferry passengers. Why not fly only on demand rather than have a fixed schedule? Its a big waste of resources if a plane has to fly empty just to maintain a service. The people of the region should support the service (buy using it). No point running the service if no one uses it on a regular basis.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Maswings current business model is probably over 30 years old. Instead of single aircraft type, believe they should have a variety of aircraft type to match aircraft type with demand.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

If the demand is so bad, shouldn't the airline implement a better model to ferry passengers. Why not fly only on demand rather than have a fixed schedule? Its a big waste of resources if a plane has to fly empty just to maintain a service. The people of the region should support the service (buy using it). No point running the service if no one uses it on a regular basis.

It would've seem complicated for MASWings to run things efficiently. Believe they would need to revamp how flights are dispatch based on demand. State gov is also interfering, the ATR72-600 series was meant to be given to MASWings to operate as they're better equipped for night flights(a lot of pax returning to their interior homes in Sarawak during the evening to night) but the state gov would only subsidize operations that are operated by the 500 series as what was agreed by them to MAS many years ago which is why last year many of the 600 series lay idle on tarmac at BKI before most of them being brought back to SZB recently. There's also issue with demand like there's 3-5 pax going to BKI>SDK but near full load for SDK>BKI for example. Then there's the low season demand that almost every sector has very few passengers but MASWings couldn't afford to cancel the flight as the locals would complain to state gov for needed constant connectivity regardless of profitability.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Just been on MH3806 last evening, KCH-SBW-BTU-MYY; seriously speaking, though the software (crews services) still up to one's expectation on board MH Groups', the hardware (the cabin) itself is really in a dated shape (with stuffy cabin somemore), it's real bad to see a less than 10 years old plane looks like the good old F50!...they really need to do something on it or get us back the 600 series!! Guess if no improvement is done, their's load will be in a much pathetic state.

 

While waiting for my flight AK 6181 bound for KCH on 1st, counted the first daily services to LMN, only 3 to 5 persons.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

..... it's real bad to see a less than 10 years old plane looks like the good old F50!...they really need to do something on it .....

 

 

Apparently something is already in the pipeline :)

The airline will look to change its seats in the third quarter of this year for the 30 ATR planes to save fuel cost and for better flexibility

 

from http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2016/05/04/bellew-upbeat-about-mas/

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

×
×
  • Create New...