Opportunity for QF to KUL?

[Sprucegoose]

Not enough origin/destination traffic I suspect for this to work. And it may well be a oneworld hub, but if people are too scared to fly MH to KUL why would that fear go away if they flew QF to KUL only to connect to an MH flight to somewhere else?

The fear of flying MH is irrational

 

[mannej]

The fear of flying MH is irrational

It may be irrational but I can imagine there are a lot of people who wouldn't set foot onto a MH flight if they had the choice at the moment. It's human nature.

 

[Sprucegoose]

It may be irrational but I can imagine there are a lot of people who wouldn't set foot onto a MH flight if they had the choice at the moment. It's human nature.

Absolutely. We are subjected to fear through most advertising let alone nakedly bad news. It's the most primal of all responses !

 

[JohnK]

Not as easy as this, it depends on aircraft type too. If it was 2 5 hour 737 flights or one 9 hour a330 flight which would you choose? Also with EK flights I think I'd prefer the EK 14 hour A380 journey to 14 hours (albeit broken into 2 7 hr sectors) in their 10 abreast 777s.

Good point. The 737 is out of the question for that length of flight.

If it's day flights, no problem. If it's an overnight flight, you can get a decent sleep on a single 9 hour flight. Can't do that on 2 x 5 hour sectors.

There's that as well.

Sleep is not an issue for me. I guess my point was a 14 hour flight is way too long. A 10 hour flight is not much better. If there was a decent alternative I would take it in a heartbeat.

But I guess we are all different. Some people think a 17 hour flight to save a couple of hours trip time is a great idea. To me that would be pure torture.