MH chiude Zurigo e Nagoya

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Oggi il CEO di Malaysia Airlines, Idris Jala, ha presentato i cambiamenti/aggiustamenti previsti per il prossimo orario invernale. Tra le 'novità' di rilievo segnalerei la chiusura di Zurigo e Nagoya (entrambe a gennaio). Inoltre la rotta Istanbul-KL, attualmente operata nonstop 2xw A-332, avrà uno scalo intermedio a Dubai (non so questa mossa quanto possa essere sensata....già è solo 2xw, se poi gli piazzi anche lo scalo non fai altro che peggiorare le cose lato IST).
Più frequenze invece verso l'area asiatica e il down under, ritenute probabilmente attualmente più strategiche e anche l'apertura di un nuovo scalo, Lahore in Pakistan. Riduzioni in Cina.
Tutti i cambiamenti nel dettaglio sono illustrati nell'articolo qui sotto.



September 17, 2007 21:07 PM

MAS On Path Towards Continued Profitable Operations

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 (Bernama) -- Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is firmly on the path towards continued profitable operations.

In a statement here today, managing director/chief executive officer, Datuk Idris Jala, said this was based on the airline's route analysis initiatives and the continuous upgrade of customer value propositions.

"Having successfully anchored all aspects of our operations to the P & L (profit & loss), we are working aggressively towards becoming a five-star airline with low-cost carrier's cost," he said in announcing the changes to the airline's international network for the Northern Winter 2007 operations, starting Oct 28.

Idris said these attributes had been factored into the new schedules, with emphasis on regions like South Asia and Australia.

"These regions continue to be promising and have further potential to contribute towards the profitability of the company," he said.

On the new Northern Winter 2007 operations, MAS said it would add a fourth weekly frequency every Thursday on the Kuala Lumpur-Maldives-Colombo-Kuala Lumpur route and a similar frequency on the Kuala Lumpur/Bangalore route every Saturday.

It would also introduce two weekly morning frequencies on the KL/Chennai/KL route every Thursday and Sunday.

In view of encouraging demand, the current Tuesday frequency of the KL/Hyderabad return flight now using the 229-seater Airbus A330-200 aircraft will be upgraded to a 294-seater Airbus A330-300 flight effective Oct 28, it said.

MAS said a new destination, Lahore/Pakistan, would be added to its international network effective Jan 7, 2008.

"We will operate three weekly flights (on Monday, Thursday and Saturday) from KL to this city. This destination will be linked to the KL-Karachi return route," it said.

The airline said the present twice weekly KL/Istanbul return direct A330-200 service would be realigned to twice weekly KL-Dubai-Istanbul return service effective Jan 8, 2008.

MAS said for the Malaysia-Australia operations, a fifth weekly frequency on Tuesdays would be introduced on the KL/Adelaide return route during the peak period effective Dec 4, 2007 to Feb 6, 2008.

"Likewise, a third weekly evening frequency will be mounted for the KL/Perth return route every Wednesday during the peak period effective Dec 5, 2007 to Feb 7, 2008," it said.

On the China operations, MAS said the present four-time weekly KL-Xiamen frequency would be reduced to thrice weekly effective Oct 28.

"The thrice weekly KL-Kunming frequency will be temporarily reduced to twice weekly frequency during the lean period from Jan 4, 2008 to Feb 29," it said.

MAS said it would downsize its KL-Surabaya flights from nine times weekly to once daily flights from Oct 28.

"Effective the same day, the twice-weekly KL-Cebu return flights will be withdrawn but the twice weekly KL-Kota Kinabalu-Cebu return flights will be retained," it said.

Based on the findings of its route profitability exercise, MAS said it would suspend its four-time weekly KL-Nagoya-KL service and its three times weekly KL-Zurich-KL effective Jan 5, 2008 and Jan 24, 2008 respectively.

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3....php?id=285522

[RobertoMo]

Pare che anche Fco sia sotto esame

[Tocky]

Pare che anche Fco sia sotto esame

Vero, si legge di questa ipotesi su diversi forum, tuttavia ricordo che lo scorso anno la rotta era una delle poche ad avere risultati soddisfacenti,tanto che si parlava di un probabile incremento delle frequenze e di FCO come snodo per l'area mediterranea.

Ciao