Malaysian Airlines - No discounts in Australia so must be doing fine!

[ethernet]

As Malaysian Airlines are not offering any findable discounts for travel to Asia in the Feb to March low season - I guess they are profitable once more, or accept being undercut by Singapore Airlines and Vn and PAL to name a few.(excluding that $99 Bali offer that I missed).

I would like to ask members are their planes full again out of Australia?

My usual racket of booking Scoot outbound, and AirAsia inbound is also foul of cheapness. Call it $300 out to day BKK, and $300 return(or more) Throw in $50 of baggage each way, plus a boring stopover.
At $760-$780 for a brandname return ticket(say Garuda or Vn or Brunei from MEL) . So at this stage MAS, Scoot and AirAsia will miss my custom.

I may even splash out $860 odd for Emirates, as they are such a fantastic airline who were recently 10/10, but have dropped for taking more than 2 weeks to write a letter to insurance company saying Sydney Airport was closed for 9 hours when a mini cyclone hovered over it some weeks ago while on a flight to SA.

I use sykscanner.net.au to target cheap trips. And on that engine MAS are just uncompetitive . If they wonder why they are loosing sales, the answer is there for all to see.

 

[AIRwin]

I'm flying MH next week and will report back on the loads... The KUL-BNE flight I was on last month was full in both cabins.

 

[Awesom Andy]

From what I heard, they're achieving roughly 60% loads, depending on the day. It's not sustainable in the long run, but given what has happened, it's not a poor load. They are very cheap ex-SIN though, SIN-xKUL-SYD/MEL/etc can be had for roughly $500 AUD return including tax for the time frame you are looking at.

 

[Alanslegal]

A friend flew PVG-KUL-PER a couple of weeks back and he asked check in staff and they told him there were a total of 40 passengers. Both sectors are operated by 777 afaik.

 

[vitagen]

Kul-Per is only operated by a333?

 

[markis10]

Kul-Per is only operated by a333?

Load ref is not surprisingly PVG I suspect

 

[jlien]

As Malaysian Airlines are not offering any findable discounts for travel to Asia in the Feb to March low season - I guess they are profitable once more, or accept being undercut by Singapore Airlines and Vn and PAL to name a few.(excluding that $99 Bali offer that I missed).

Feb-Mar is not a low season. If anything it'd be the peak season, Chinese New Year starts on 19/2, and there will be many travelling to and from Malaysia for the holiday. Also a lot of students will be returning to Aus in that period for the start of semester 1. Traditionally fares are more expensive during that period. I recall having to pay $2000 MEL-KUL-MEL (Y) 3 years back during CNY

 

[markis10]

From what I heard, they're achieving roughly 60% loads, depending on the day.

In August for all services BITRE show 55% in 59% out seat loads.

 

[drron]

Might be because the new menu will be in then.
https://au.totaltravel.yahoo.com/ne...5419978/poh-adds-mile-high-cooking-to-her-cv/

 

[Alanslegal]

Kul-Per is only operated by a333?

Either way, both were twin aisle planes. I'm not good with plane types.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Just found this site here Malaysia Airlines System - operational_statistics with the operational stats. Given what has happened, it's actually looking rather healthy. Load is not too far off from the 2011-2012 period. Cargo remains more or less unchanged from the year before as well. Assuming all the stats are legit (and I'm assuming they are), I think it's simply an airline that is long overdue for a restructure or cost-cutting exercise, and currently using the disasters as an excuse to justify current loses and its eventual cost cutting actions.

 

[vitagen]

Either way, both were twin aisle planes. I'm not good with plane types.

I didn't mean to sound like a know it all..

 

[AIRwin]

I'm flying MH next week and will report back on the loads... The KUL-BNE flight I was on last month was full in both cabins.

As promised, here I am at KLIA after MH134 BNE-KUL with the latest report. Business Class (36 seats on an A330) was about 2/3 full...

 

[lc_461]

I think most airlines would be experiencing light loads right now.. November is typically a shoulder season IME. Nil school holidays here or Asia. Things seem to heat up again early DEC with the break up of universities and some private schools.

Although G20 in Brisbane this weekend has changed the dynamic with significant traffic expected I suppose!

 

[AIRwin]

As promised, here I am at KLIA after MH134 BNE-KUL with the latest report. Business Class (36 seats on an A330) was about 2/3 full...

Even Business Class (16 seats on a B738) on my domestic connecting flight MH1037 KUL-JHB was about 3/4 full...