Back on February 1, 2013, Malaysia Airlines joined the OneWorld alliance, a move I was quite excited about. Malaysia Airlines opens up several new routes and destinations that aren't currently served by OneWorld, and most exciting for me was that they operate Airbus A380s, as I am hoping to try at least one A380 from…
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@lucky
if you don't mind, how much did you exactly pay (Avios+$) for LHR-KUL-LHR RT?
Thanks
Can't wait for the MH portion.
Do you have any other MH F or J reports other than the one coming up?
Even if I'm Avios rich, I don't know I will use 210K points to fly between LHR-KUL... But look forward for this trip report.
How do you tend to plan your sleep on back to back red eyes flying East to Asia?
@ Justin -- In this case it was pretty easy. LHR-KUL was leaving at ~11AM, and that's 2AM Pacific Time, around when I usually go to bed. So I stayed up on JFK-LHR, had lunch on LHR-KUL, and then slept for eight hours, waking up for breakfast before landing in KUL.
can't wait to read about the A380 first class on that route, hoping to try it next year.
isn't that crazy that AA charges 70k miles from EU to Malaysia but only 62.5k miles from the US to Malaysia? i guess just one of many anomalies on the award charts...
Ben- You wrote,"Being based in the US, London to Kuala Lumpur isn’t an especially practical routes on which to fly Malaysia Airlines, given that American doesn’t let you route from the US to Asia via Europe on a single partner award." I thought that's how AA awards on BA are routed to asia.
@ John -- You can't use American miles for travel on BA to Asia via Europe unless you want to book it as two awards or as a distance based award.
@ John -- Right, they do to the Middle East, Africa, and India, but not Asia 1 or Asia 2.
If any friend offered me this trip I wouldn't have to be dragged along. 😉 Looking forward to reading!
@Gene, think 1/3 off of 105K, now another deal in the dust bin of history (which was still available yesterday). Sadly, I did not jump on this because of so much travel already booked. A bummer--MH F on the A380 for 30K from CDG-KUL would have been awesome.
Now we'll have to see if BA tries to "correct" the erroneous pricing that they let fester for several weeks. I doubt it, though it presents an interesting concern for those already booked (since "economy", not "first" showed up when you searched for first, even though the reservation booked into first).
I only share about this since the "trick" is now dead.
Hey Ben, looks like another great report coming up...any suggestions for what to see/do in KL? I'll be there this weekend! Thanks!
Taxes and fees are about $740 for LHR-KUL roundtrip. A bit pricey per person, but not too horrible. You can try flying out of CDG instead of LHR for lower fees.
@Matthew, so the trick only worked on the CDG-KUL route, not LHR-KUL? I haven't seen any errors when booking LHR-KUL when MH started to appear on BA's award booking system.
@AC: I recall seeing it for all MH routes in F including LHR-KUL, but the only route I was closely considering (as I said, up until yesterday and for the last several weeks) was the Paris route.
@matthew - my 'reduced rate' award KUL - CDG was just updated on BA.com to show F (instead of Y with an F seat assignment.) I think we're good.
@lucky:
Did you have to pay the British APD? Transfers are usually exempt (including stopovers of less than 24h), but I suspect the revenue and the Avios portion of the trip were on seperate tickets?
@ RBR -- I did have to pay the APD, unfortunately, since they were separate tickets.
I too am flying/trying out Malaysian's A380 First Class product from LHR-KUL return. I used 140K Virgin Flying Club miles (thought I'd take advantage of the partnership which may change soon with MH joining One world).