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1990: Malaysia Airlines International Routes

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Found this online: http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/263159/1990-malaysia-airlines-international-routes/

 

The following is a list of routes and frequencies operated by Malaysia Airlines for the Summer period of 1990.
Frequency unit is on weekly basis. Note Domestic routes and service to Singapore is not included
Route Freq & A/C Remark
Kuala Lumpur – Auckland 1 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Bandar Seri Begawan 3 737 2 737 till 04JUL90
Kuala Lumpur – Bangkok 7 AB6
Kuala Lumpur – Delhi – Karachi 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Dubai – Brussels – London 1 742
Kuala Lumpur – Dubai – Frankfurt – Amsterdam 1 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Dubai – Frankfurt – Paris 1 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Dubai – Istanbul – Amsterdam 1 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Dubai – London 1 D10, 1 74D
Kuala Lumpur – Dubai – Zurich – London 1 742
Kuala Lumpur – Frankfurt – Paris 1 74E
Kuala Lumpur – Fukuoka 2 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Guangzhou 1 737
Kuala Lumpur – Hat Yai 3 737 Eff 05JUN90
Kuala Lumpur – Ho Chi Minh 2 737
Kuala Lumpur – Hong Kong 2 74E, 1 74D, 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Hong Kong – Taipei 1 742, 2 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Honolulu – Los Angeles 2 74E
Kuala Lumpur – Jakarta 4 737
Kuala Lumpur – Jeddah 1 D10, 1 742
Kuala Lumpur – Kota Kinabalu – Manila 5 737
Kuala Lumpur – Langkawi – Phuket 1 737
Kuala Lumpur – Kota Kinabalu – Seoul 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Kota Kinabalu – Taipei – Seoul 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Kota Kinabalu – Tokyo 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Kuching – Kota Kinabalu – Hong Kong 2 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Kuching – Tokyo 1 D10
Kuala Lumpur – London 3 74E
Kuala Lumpur – Madras 4 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Manila 2 737
Kuala Lumpure – Melbourne – Sydney 4 742
Kuala Lumpur – Penang – Hat Yai 7 737
Kuala Lumpur – Penang – Madras 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpur – Perth 1 74E, 2 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Phuket 2 737
Kuala Lumpure – Taipei – Seoul 1 AB3
Kuala Lumpure – Taipei – Tokyo 4 D10
Kuala Lumpur – Tokyo – Los Angeles 3 74D
Kuching – Bandar Seri Begawan – Kota Kinabalu 3 737
Kuching – Pontianak 1 F50
What is the difference between, 74D and 74E?

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Kuala Lumpur - Auckland should be:

 

Kuala Lumpur - Brisbane - Auckland on a DC10. The DC-10-30 may not have enough range to cover a 11 hours flight direct to AKL.

 

How do I know? I was a frequent traveler of this route on MH's DC-10 back then

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Just to share the additional info that i snap from my collections

 

 

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Wings Of Gold Nov 1990 issue

 

 

 

 

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Domestic Network map

 

 

 

 

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MAS international network

 

 

 

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Continue.. LA and Honalulu

 

 

 

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Flight distance

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One thing I note is that in those days, non-stop flights are not that common. Most long haul flights involve one or two stops. That does help in the economics of operating these flights. Non-stops require the aircraft to carry additional fuel and that reduces payload.

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M. Sofian H., I like your post. I want your Wings of Gold copies too!! Lolx, where can I get one nowadays?

 

Dear JW, the following is part of my collection from 1982 to 2016 (Going Places)...

 

 

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13886968_10209552310431944_5760497980154

 

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The best era to be a crew, if you like to travel.

 

The frequencies are low, so the nightstops are longer. The airline was relatively small, so you know most of the crew. National prestige takes precedence over profit and loss, and being a crew was surely a glamorous job back then.

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The best era to be a crew, if you like to travel.

 

The frequencies are low, so the nightstops are longer. The airline was relatively small, so you know most of the crew. National prestige takes precedence over profit and loss, and being a crew was surely a glamorous job back then.

Yes indeed. MAS glory days was indeed one to be proud of, until some nutcase decided to privatise it and everything went downhill.

 

Dear JW, the following is part of my collection from 1982 to 2016 (Going Places)...

Nice collection Sofian. Jealous here! Where did you get them? I saw some listed for sell in ebay previously but now are all gone.

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MH60 KUL-KCH-BKI-HKG-TPE-NRT

MH61 NRT-TPE-HKG-BKI-KCH-KUL

 

Dragonair codeshared with MH on the BKI-HKG route, hence MH,KA60/61 flight number was used for the route, the 60/61 flight numbers survived till today at KA. Long abandoned at MH after introduction of the MH382/383, MH384/385 flight numbers.

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I did take a lot of flights on the MH60. If i'm not mistaken it was an early morning departure from Subang.Arriving BKI at around noon due to the transit at KCH.

Yeah I remembered it to be departing at around 6:00am or 7:00am?

 

My father's maternal family is based in Seremban, so we had to wake up really in the morning and drove to Subang for MH60/61. Back in the days if you catch the real early morning flight and late afternoon flight, the price is 50% less. A return flight to the Peninsular from Sabah cost us M$1200 back then (back then it wasn't known as RM) and early morning and evening flights cost us M$600.

 

Does anyone have MH60/61 time table? If I am not incorrect, it went all the way to NRT from TPE.

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Mid 90s MH 60 always operated by 734. I'm sure its around 6am departure as we'll reach the SZB airport around 3-4am. Yes last time there were night tourist fights. YN economy to n fro BKI-KUL was rm600/700 per person. Kind of ticket i will not pay today even on broad daylight flight.add on rm202 to n fro TWU-BKI flight because we were living in Tawau. Due to the YN regulations our flight out of BKI was mh 2601/2603 departing around 4am/5am.

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Yeah I remembered it to be departing at around 6:00am or 7:00am?

 

My father's maternal family is based in Seremban, so we had to wake up really in the morning and drove to Subang for MH60/61. Back in the days if you catch the real early morning flight and late afternoon flight, the price is 50% less. A return flight to the Peninsular from Sabah cost us M$1200 back then (back then it wasn't known as RM) and early morning and evening flights cost us M$600.

 

Does anyone have MH60/61 time table? If I am not incorrect, it went all the way to NRT from TPE.

During that period, mh derived most of its profit from kul to bki/kch to subsidize loss making international routes.

 

After ak drove down domestic fare, mh couldn't make profit.

Edited by KK Lee

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Dragonair codeshared with MH on the BKI-HKG route, hence MH,KA60/61 flight number was used for the route .....

The actual term they applied back then was "Joint Service" - there must be difference in terms and applications compared to the codeshares that is so common nowadays. I guess so much so that the flight numbers were 'modified' - the BKI-HKG vv was MH61/62 whilst for the domestic KUL-KCH-BKI vv legs, MH61A/62A applied

Yes, I too am perplexed it was actually 61/62 instead of 60/61, but am reading from a 1986 timetable !

The arrangement started during time when CX was still flying into BKI, KA inherited that eventually

 

Also from said timetable, there used to be MH65/66 doing KUL-BKI-TPE-Seoul, twice weekly, and that the full extent of MH's service to Korea then :)

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The actual term they applied back then was "Joint Service" - there must be difference in terms and applications compared to the codeshares that is so common nowadays. I guess so much so that the flight numbers were 'modified' - the BKI-HKG vv was MH61/62 whilst for the domestic KUL-KCH-BKI vv legs, MH61A/62A applied

Yes, I too am perplexed it was actually 61/62 instead of 60/61, but am reading from a 1986 timetable !

The arrangement started during time when CX was still flying into BKI, KA inherited that eventually

 

Also from said timetable, there used to be MH65/66 doing KUL-BKI-TPE-Seoul, twice weekly, and that the full extent of MH's service to Korea then :)

 

Haha BC... I am 200% sure it was MH60/61 and KA60/61 as I have frequented that route. Funny you mentioned about 1986, it was actually the first time ever I went to HKG on MH's A300B4-203 (BKI-HKG) and then (PAL A300B4-203 for HKG-MNL and MH B737-2H6 Adv. between MNL to BKI).

 

I remembered it to be MH60 on the outbound flight.

 

If you do a search now at Dragonair's website... KA60/61 still exist. KA61 is inbound to BKI, KA60 is outbound from BKI to HKG.

 

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Yeah, I remember it as 60/61 as well, but evidently not so if one dig further back in time

This the 1986 timetable I was referring to

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From a 1992 timetable, yes, it was 60/61 already by then

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Edited by BC Tam

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Ahh I see what you mean now、BC!

 

So it seems odd numbers were in reverse direction (inbound) and even numbers for outbound from Malaysia? Seems they revised it after the 1980s.

 

I did remember at one stage seeing MH62 to be KUL-BKI-SEL run (ICN did not even exist back then and GMP was still using SEL IATA code) served by a DC-10-30.

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So it seems odd numbers were in reverse direction (inbound) and even numbers for outbound from Malaysia? Seems they revised it after the 1980s.

MH assigns even for northbound and odd for southbound.

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