alcuni rumours su MH

[landingFCO]

landing, il LHR sembra confermato a 16 x W

A partire da quando?
Sembra che la compagnia venda ancora 18 voli settimanali su Londra, almeno al momento.

[AZJumbo]

stanno tutti postando profitti /riducendo perdite. delta e northwest in gran spolvero.

resta solo la nostra az nel fosso.


p.s. malaysian perde perde e ordina il 380? mi sembra un po' l'az del sud est asiatico

[skyrobbie]

Aggiungo un articolo che ho postato già altrove, ma può essere d'interesse per l'argomento del 3d:

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will keep its Zurich, Rome and Los Angeles routes despite an earlier plan to do away with these unprofitable routes.

In fact, the airline plans to increase flights to Los Angeles and even Paris as part of its network rationalisation scheme. But it has yet to decide whether to keep its Kuala Lumpur-Stockholm-New York route that currently suffers from low load factor.

“We can improve on the Los Angeles route,’’ managing director Idris Jala said when releasing MAS' results yesterday.

Network rationalisation is the next big thing on Jala’s plate as he struggles to bring the airline back to profitability. The airline’s losses are narrowing after Jala focused on improving yields, cutting cost, selling assets and reducing the workforce. He had to make some tough decisions in the way the airline should be operated and managed, and even managed to cut a good deal in the domestic air services rationalisation plan.

While Jala said “the improvements we put in place at the airline are beginning to bear fruit,’’ rising jet fuel prices remain a major concern for airlines.

Despite the improvements at MAS, profits are not going to come overnight. On the other hand, if nothing is done, MAS would be reporting a RM1.7bil net loss this year. Now that a RM50mil net profit is predicted for next year, even analysts are betting on Jala being able to beat that.

As part of the network rationalisation plan, MAS has signed code share agreements with several airlines and the issue of low load factor will gradually diminish. The recent deal with Virgin Blue is a major development between a full service carrier and a low-cost carrier and allows for interlining.

The move is a clever one, given that MAS has high load factors for its Australian flights. It also currently carries passengers for KLM into Australia and an interlining arrangement with Virgin Blue bodes well for MAS.

Jala said “a few more partnerships are in the pipeline.’’ He is looking at a similar arrangement with Italy’s Alitalia to ferry travellers into parts of Italy and vice versa. That is part of the hub and spoke concept that Jala has for the European sector.

Jala also wants to expand the partnership into China, India and South Africa. MAS was likely to partner South African Airways for the African connection and China Southern for the China connectivity, sources said.

As for India, the ideal partner appears to be Jet Airways, a promising airline. But present regulations in India do not permit such an arrangement.

The network rationalisation plan would also see MAS focusing more on the region but with strategic tie-ups with airlines in Africa, India, Middle East, China, American and Europe so that it is able to provide wide connectivity with a code share or partnership.

On domestic operations, Jala said MAS offered one of the lowest fares in the world despite the average 15% rise in domestic airfares.

Bye!