[Johan Z]

Lemuel Tay, on 08 August 2010 - 10:46 PM, said:

Arrgh! As if to "taunt" me today, I just checked the MH website with the same itinerary BNE-KUL-LGK-KUL-BNE and the pricing came up with AUD$4777.84 - it's that 777 again!

BTW you experts all, how probable is it that MH will allocate the newly ordered A330s to the BNE-KUL route? I read some of the previous posts and there were suggestions these new jets would even have lie-flat (angled) seats, or total lie-flat seats even. About time too.

I am a big fan of MH, but this comment is probably fair: MH really needs to lift its game on their Golden Club Class seats when its archrival already has PremiumSeats, angled lie-flat for a low-cost airline. That's what has made me so annoyed, a full-service airline pulling a swiftie and swapping the B777 for an unrefurbished A330 for an overnight flight. Maybe the press release should have used the Aussie vernacular, "It's simply not cricket!".

Am considering a trip to India next year, but not in an old A330! As we say in Malaysia, "tengok dulu lah" (wait and see).

A330 will replace the old A330s, so expect the routes served by A330s to get the new aircraft first. India will definitely get the new A330, but MH will only receive a handful of A330s next year, so can't guarantee you will get an aircraft upgrade.

[Yue Lee]

Could it be that SYD has no more morning departure slots hence MH140 have to depart right away once MH141 arrives, ergo the unavoidable 3am arrival at KUL.

[Josh T]

Yue Lee, on 30 August 2010 - 11:39 PM, said:

Could it be that SYD has no more morning departure slots hence MH140 have to depart right away once MH141 arrives, ergo the unavoidable 3am arrival at KUL.

I suppose that's definitely a possibility. I'm looking at their winter timetable for next year and the flight leaves at 8:20pm and gets into KL at 3:00am. SYD is usually really quiet at night, so they can delay the departure by 2 hours and leave at 10:20pm so that you can arrive at 5:00am in KL instead, which is much more reasonable! The arriving flight gets into SYD at 6:50pm so it's not much to ask for the aircraft to stay at the airport for 3.5 hours.