More Cancellations at Malaysia Airlines

Malaysia Airlines drops Istanbul service (MH30/MH31) effective 24 August..

With this, its European destinations remains for London, Amsterdam and Paris while flights to Dubai looks safe for now, all flights intended for Istanbul is rerouted via Dubai as we learnt.. Paris will be downgraded from Airbus 380 to Boeing 777-200ER, thus putting 2 Airbus 380 into extra (which is said to be sold/leased or going to Sydney - nothing is cast in stone yet as of now)..

Malaysia Airlines trims more Australian flights

The following routes will be trimmed from Malaysia Airlines' flight fequency: 

Melbourne: Effective 2 August - MH146/MH147
Sydney: Effective 3 August - MH142/MH143
Adelaide: Effective 9 August - MH136/MH139 
Perth: Effective 15 August - MH126/MH127

I was on MH146 on my return from Melbourne last September, the downside is to sleep in the airport the night before with McDonalds as the flight is 8am and need to check in and go through all at 6am.. plus some duty-free shopping time and walking through and exploring the quiet eerie airport...

Sleeping on another trolley

 

That's all the news about Australian routes, hopefully they don't cut anymore..

Next... ASIA!

Malaysia Airlines Terminates Brisbane & Maldives

In the next stage of route rationalisation, Malaysia Airlines today announced the termination of Kuala Lumpur - Brisbane vv and Kuala Lumpur - Maldives (Male) vv.

The Brissy route will be dropped effective 9 August 2015 and Maldives will be dropped effective 23 August 2015.

Alternative flights you can take to Maldives:
- Sri Lankan (long transit in Colombo)
- Singapore Airlines (night arrival, morning departure)
- Tigerair (morning depart from Singapore, noon depart from Male arriving in Singapore at night)

Alternative flights to Brisbane/Gold Coast:
- AirAsia X (to Gold Coast)
- Singapore Airlines
- Qantas (from Singapore)
- Jetstar/Tiger/Scoot

I flew on Malaysia Airlines to Brisbane last September and notably the 8-hours flight was awesome.. Certainly sad to see it go..

Flashback my KUL-BNE flight

Malaysia Airlines to remain as international carrier

In a briefing by Malaysia Airlines CEO Christoph Mueller today, it was said that Malaysia Airlines will retain its international routes..

On that note, it will retain the 4 Airbus A380s currently serving Kuala Lumpur - London twice daily, and fitting in "totally lie-flat" business class its A330s and B777 jets..

However, nothing has been said about the remaining 2 Airbus A380s currently servicing Kuala Lumpur - Paris daily, chances are either it will be downgraded to a 330/777 or totally dropped off the route network.. That said, there's no news about Amsterdam/Istanbul/Dubai routes..

The current business class seats which will be completely changed

Malaysia Airlines is temporary sampling its A380 on Kuala Lumpur - Sydney routes, and trimming it down to twice daily (from 3 times daily) till June 2, and from June 5-9..

Question: could this be the future of the Sydney route and redesignating the 2 aircrafts from Paris to Sydney? We'll wait and see..

[UPDATE 2/6/15: The remaining 2 A380s currently serving Paris is put up for sale]


[News sources: The Star & Australian Business Traveller]