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Petronas in for Mercedes

By now, everyone would have realized the fact Petronas is not backing our own 1Malaysia F1 team, nothing less than a dream of our PM Najib Tun Razak to have a national F1 team to compete in the F1 championship.

On the paper, this might look like Petronas snubs 1Malaysia F1 team, but from a branding [...]

AirAsia X to London

Talk about economic turmoil and aviation business in Malaysia is sprouting.

Now the latest, AirAsia X is going to fly to London at RM499 one-way fare for travel between March 11 and October 4, with 5 flights a week.

Online bookings begin 8pm tonight.

Let’s see how MAS is going to counter the campaign and as I said [...]

Air Fare War: Idris Jala vs Tony Fernandes

Be it Idris Jala or Tony Fernandes, let me tell you what, I just love free competition.

2 days ago, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) announced a global online sale starting with 3 days of booking period, starting from 10 till 12 Nov.

Tomorrow, AirAsia and AirAsia X are is going to remove all fuel surcharges, from midnight today [...]

Fair competition

I’m quite intrigued by the low-cost fight between the national carrier Malaysia Airlines and low-cost carrier AirAsia.

Half past midnight, two emails came into the mailbox about the same time, with AirAsia offering international free seats while MAS via it’s low-cost carrier subsidiary FireFly is busy counter-attacking AirAsia’s recent "sub-zero free seats" promotion.

It’s indeed the kind [...]

Are you an anak bangsa Malaysia, or a loser?

It’s such a disappointed evening.

I’d like to dedicate this post to 3 characters: A, B and C, and the rest of fellow Malaysians who think and react alike them.

A doesn’t even know his MP, however came to a conclusion that the incumbent MP is good just because the incumbent MP organized a few social events [...]

Attn: Tony Fernandes

Between Gold Coast, Manchester, London or wherever you want to fly to, you made a few promises.

Maybe you’re too busy, but never mind, let me remind you that blogger Peter Tan wants you to cakap serupa bikin.

AirAsia: Now Everyone Can “Fry”

According to Jakarta-based blogger Unspun, by saying that low-cost carrier AirAsia sucks is an understatement.

He prefers it this way: AirAsia does not merely suck, it sucks big time.

But why?
What has been happening is that Air Asia has been constantly canceling flights and putting their passengers on other flights. No real reason is given for these [...]

Why Malaysia Airlines?

Being a Malaysian, I’m always proud to fly with Malaysia Airlines, especially the stylish moon kite logo, which is one of the country’s national symbol.

Besides, it’s one of only five airlines in the world to have been awarded a 5-star rating by Skytrax, a United Kingdom-based consultancy, part of Inflight Research Services.

Most of the [...]

Tony Fernandes, FAX & Firefly

Last year, with great promise, Fly Asian Express (FAX) founded by entrepreneur and businessman Tony Fernandes took over the rural air services operations from Malaysian Airlines (MAS) under the national air route rationalization exercise last year. The strategy as quoted from the website:

FAX, which calls itself a ‘flexi airline’, is committed in providing some of [...]

Good news #1: Jetstar

Good news #1.

Starting from September 9, budget carrier JetStar, which is owned by Australian flag-carrier Qantas Airways, will start direct flights between Sydney-Kuala Lumpur, making it the second foreign budget airline to fly to Malaysia, after the Filipino carrier Cebu Pacific Airways commenced operations in December.

(SOURCE: Jetstar)

Jetstar started long-haul international flights in November 2006, [...]