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Now spotters at KUL are at high alert to see when and what time Transaero plane (probably the ver first one to arrive at KUL obviously) :D :)

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Now spotters at KUL are at high alert to see when and what time Transaero plane (probably the ver first one to arrive at KUL obviously) :D :)

 

Nope. They been here before.. and kinda left unannounced. Last year actually is when they came.. or was it this year. Search Airliners.net. Seek and ye shall find!

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i'm not sure what the target group of pax is like. Just as Sandeep pointed out, its Transaero instead of Aeroflot. And 8 flights in 3 months? But in an email sent to all its employees, MAS stated that its a trial period for them to gauge the pax load factor. However, its not gonna be easy to gauge that if you're having 8 flights in 3 months because more pax would obviously choose other airlines with better frequency. In my opinion, they're targetting the students and tourist groups for a start since its VMY 2007. An in addtion, Aeroflot has intentions to fly here as well, maybe MH is juz adopting the wait,look and move strategy..Mr. Idris's favourite..lol..but he is known to have made several good moves using that strategy so it may be a good move by MH..never know whats in their plans..

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Please say more. I'm not familiar with that airline, although I've seen them in KUL.

 

Well, they operate with an all western fleet of B742s, B763s and B762s, B734s and B733s. They are rated as a 2 star airline (Skytrax) and have received mixed reviews. They have operated for 15 years, without to my knowledge any accidents. They are the first private airline out of Russia. They have grand dreams and perhaps the partnership for them with MAS is more of a gain for them than it is for MAS. As Sanjay said, gauging the response from a total of 8 scheduled flights over a 3 month period doesn't seem to make any sense.

 

When I say "ned I say more", I don't mean to say that they are absolutely 100% "dodgey", but they are a 2nd tier carrier that seems to be a complete outlier in terms of MAS' greater plans for the future. I would have thought Aeroflot would be a better bet! They have a far better product and reliability nowadays than the Aeroflot of the past!

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It appears strange to me that MH is signing this new code share flight with a relatively unknown airline, when it has not completed its turnaround plan yet.

 

my sentiments exactly... well this is in line with the so called "flying to win" component of the BTP... they have said that they want to sign 5 code-share arrangements by year end. Virgin Blue, Alitalia are signed, Transaero is the third... we await to see who the remaining two are... I am hoping that JetAirways is on the cards as I really think a strategic partnership in India is VITAL!

 

IIRC, is China Southern the other possible signee of code-sharing services?

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Interesting.The KUL-DME route will be an big advantage for Malaysian students studying in Russia! I've heard a story from my mother's friend,that each time her daughter trying to return to Malaysia,he had to go elsewhere,and it costs a lot.

 

Thanks to the code-share agreement between MH and Transaero for KUL-DME route,Malaysian students will have no problem to travel. :lol:

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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 (Bernama) -- Malaysia Airports's relentless marketing effort and Tourism Malaysia's aggressive promotion continued to bore fruit to ensure the aviation industry ended 2011 on a positive note.

 

And, to end the year on a positive note, Transaero Airlines, Russia's second largest airline, made its maiden landing at KL International Airport (KLIA) today.

 

Transaero, the sole airline from Russia to operate into Kuala Lumpur, operates one weekly flight every Saturday from Moscow and Kuala Lumpur and vice versa, using a Boeing 763 aircraft with 255 seat configuration, said Malaysia Airports in a statement.

 

The inaugural flight UN551 touched down at KLIA today and was given a warm Malaysian style reception by Malaysia Airports and Tourism Malaysia.

 

It said Transaero has been operating charter flights to KLIA for the last few years and has created sufficient market demand on this route for the airline to start scheduled operations.

 

Managing Director Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad was quoted as saying:"Malaysia Airports is very pleased with Transaero's decision to include Kuala Lumpur in their network and establish a direct connection between Malaysia and Russia.

 

"Transaero's service opens a new market for us and we wish them all the best for their operations in Kuala Lumpur. We look forward for the airline to stabilise and strengthen its operation into Kuala Lumpur and hopefully, increase their frequency to KLIA soon".

 

He said it was Malaysia Airports' close cooperation and relations with Tourism Malaysia plus the Ministry of Transport's pro-business policies that brought this airline from Russia to Malaysia.

 

Transaero, the 57th airline serving Kuala Lumpur, will provide convenient access between Kuala Lumpur and Moscow and expand two-way trade, investment and tourism for both countries.

 

In 2011, apart from Transaero, KLIA also welcomed Air Koryo and Lion Air, while Egypt Air made a comeback to KLIA.

 

Transaero, which flies to China, Japan, Thailand and India, also plys to major Russian cities and is also the leading carrier to Kazakhstan.

 

Its network covers many European destinations such as Austria, Cyprus, England, Germany, Greece, Israel and Spain.

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I think Russian used to invite or rather hope if MH could initiate the flight between KUL and DME before. Anyway, big welcome to Transaero...

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Maybe Aeroflot will establish Moscow (SVO)-Kuala Lumpur (KUL) ... :yahoo:

 

Aeroflot was operating in/out of Malaysia during the glory days of Subang (old KLIA) International Airport. There were many other airlines as well but pull out after the opening of present KLIA (Sepang). I am not really sure what were the reasons, perhaps 1998 economy downturn could be one of them .... :rolleyes:

 

 

:hi:

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Aeroflot was operating in/out of Malaysia during the glory days of Subang (old KLIA) International Airport. There were many other airlines as well but pull out after the opening of present KLIA (Sepang). I am not really sure what were the reasons, perhaps 1998 economy downturn could be one of them .... :rolleyes:

 

 

:hi:

Aeroflot still flew into KL (KLIA) well into the early 2000s using a 313. The routing was something like SVO-SHJ-SIN (or BKK??)-KUL-SIN (or BKK??)-SHJ-SVO. If my memory serves me correctly, Aeroflot stopped flying into KUL a few months after NH (NH reinstated the KUL flight for a few months after that but then it was stopped again and remains so until now).

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UN551 DME2100 – 1115+1KUL 763 5

UN552 KUL1240 – 1945DME 763 6

Not sure if it is a permanent feature, but a B772 was deployed for the inaugural flights, as photographed by Mwinger, WT Liew here!

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Malaysia, Russia to sign visa-free travel agreement

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KUALA LUMPUR: Russia is looking at introducing visa-free travel for Malaysians to the federation, reciprocating such facility extended to Russian visitors to Malaysia, said Russian envoy Lyudmilla G. Vorobyeva.

 

 

The Russian ambassador to Malaysia said that the agreement for visa-free travel is being finalised and hoped that the agreement would be signed this year.

 

"For Russians we don't need the visa to come to Malaysia for 30 days, in our system we cannot grant the same thing to our partner (Malaysia), we need to have a visa-free agreement and we are working on this kind of agreement so that Malaysian nationals can go to Russia without any visa for 30 days," said the 47-year-old envoy, who took up her posting here in August 2010.

 

She hoped the visa-free travel would further enhance the tourism and economic relations between both countries.

 

"My impression is that people here are very interested in going to Russia, everyone knows about St Petersburg and Moscow and many people are visiting this major tourist destination," Vorobyeva told Bernama during her visit to the news agency here today.

 

"There are a lot of potential and interesting places to visit in the Asian part of Russia, with a lot of eco-tourism, national parks, historical and cultural places," she said.

 

On education, Vorobyeva hoped to see more Malaysians studying in Russia since the quality of education there was very good, while the cost was quite affordable compared to the western countries.

 

She said there were some 3,000 Malaysian students in Russia, taking courses such as medicine, while there were only some 150 Russian students in Malaysia taking up mostly Islamic studies.

 

Vorobyeva said that she had been discussing with vice-chancellors of various universities in Malaysia to do some exchange programmes with Russian universities.

 

"There are a number of students in Russia who are studying Malay language and are specialising in Malay studies, and I would like to share a success of one of the students who won second place for the international category in the International Malay Language Oratory Contest for the Prime Minister's Trophy last week," she added.

 

Vorobyeva also hoped more Russian universities would take part in the education fairs held in Malaysia in a move to promote and expose the courses they are offering besides medicine, such as in the field of aviation and technical.

 

"Russia has a lot more than just medical studies to offer. We have also very good schools for fundamental scientific studies, economic and engineering," she said.

 

She said the Russian government also provides scholarships for Asean countries, however, Malaysians have not taken up these scholarships. -- BERNAMA

Good move!

 

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The good old days of Subang saw many soviet-bloc airlines flying here ...

1. OK flew Bratislava- Prague-DXB-KUL-SIN with their IL62s

2. Aeroflot over the years flew various aircraft (IL-62, IL-86, 313) from Moscow SVO via various routes (via Tashkent, Delhi, Dubai, Singapore and also flew onwards to SYD if i remember correctly)

3. Balkan Bulgarian airlines flew to KUL with 767s from Sofia

4. JAT Yugoslav airlines flew from BEG to SYD via DXB, BKK, KUL, SIN

5. I think LOT polish airlines flew to KUL for a short period (can't be certain)

(I used to live in SS14 - under the flight path for many years!)

 

Other European airlines included BA, sabena, UTA (1x weekly CDG-DXB-CMB-KUL-SIN-CGK-SYD-NOU or something like that), air france (after it absorbed UTA). Swissair almost did but failed to commence flights for some reason.

 

sigh, we are slowly building up our connections again. the good thing is that KUL is a world top 30 airport for passenger and cargo traffic. here's to a transaero staying on and for aeroflot to restart flights. Also hoping S7 airlines (OneWorld) will fly to KUL.

 

KLM first flew to alor setar in the 20s and is still flying to malaysia (btw) ... the most loyal airline to KUL.

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The good old days of Subang saw many soviet-bloc airlines flying here ...

1. OK flew Bratislava- Prague-DXB-KUL-SIN with their IL62s

2. Aeroflot over the years flew various aircraft (IL-62, IL-86, 313) from Moscow SVO via various routes (via Tashkent, Delhi, Dubai, Singapore and also flew onwards to SYD if i remember correctly)

3. Balkan Bulgarian airlines flew to KUL with 767s from Sofia

4. JAT Yugoslav airlines flew from BEG to SYD via DXB, BKK, KUL, SIN

5. I think LOT polish airlines flew to KUL for a short period (can't be certain)

(I used to live in SS14 - under the flight path for many years!)

 

Other European airlines included BA, sabena, UTA (1x weekly CDG-DXB-CMB-KUL-SIN-CGK-SYD-NOU or something like that), air france (after it absorbed UTA). Swissair almost did but failed to commence flights for some reason.

 

sigh, we are slowly building up our connections again. the good thing is that KUL is a world top 30 airport for passenger and cargo traffic. here's to a transaero staying on and for aeroflot to restart flights. Also hoping S7 airlines (OneWorld) will fly to KUL.

 

KLM first flew to alor setar in the 20s and is still flying to malaysia (btw) ... the most loyal airline to KUL.

 

Those were the olden days though.... Now with A380... they can just fly non stop from London to Sydney... people nowadays don't like stopover flights...

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.... Now with A380... they can just fly non stop from London to Sydney...

Can ? Without payload restrictions ? :huh:

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Those were the olden days though.... Now with A380... they can just fly non stop from London to Sydney... people nowadays don't like stopover flights...

 

It's not so much as non stop flying than state of economy - Malaysia in the 80s is a different world than Malaysia in the new millennium. Plus we're stuck between a rock and a hard place: SIN & BKK.

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..... UTA (1x weekly CDG-DXB-CMB-KUL-SIN-CGK-SYD-NOU or something like that), .....

When me and my sister did that, KUL wasn't in the picture

So we had a SIN-KUL-BKI sector stuck on at the end, on top of a LHR-CDG sector before

We were like comatosed zombies when we reached home - did not look forward to the return journey one bit I recall :)

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