Malaysia Airlines Deactivates Their Reactivated Deactivated 747

shit country shit airline avoid at all cost

You would think someone would've thought of the maintenance check when they brought the plane back.

Hey Lucky
Great article. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't have a few A330's lying around for long haul as well?

@ Pete Campbell -- They do have A330s, but they don't have the range to fly to London.

KUL-LHR is 6593 miles. All variants of A330 can operate this distance.

I saw the 747 parked at the KUL airport in May, after just having flown Malaysia airlines. According to their magazine, the 747 was brought back to fly "select high-density domestic routes" or something of the sort, which I found peculiar. Now we know how much they really utilized it.

This stunt was pulled without Muller even knowing about it. I guess the new coming CEO has forced some sanity upon the team.
What happened with their other A380's? They had 6 of them.

Poor management!

I don't get it, why they keep 6 of A380 but not able to manage the deployment of these aircrafts, frankly that's stupid ideas to bring back B747 to their market, they should keep thinking of the efficiency for flying B747 before make decision, and this is just wasting money painting and renovate the aircraft but then they just canceled without any single flight.

This "news" is just for cheap publicity. The facts about available planes to cater for the "very so-important(?)" KL-London route was already incorrect.

I had a great experience with MH last month Heathrow to London - service was great and comfy business class. This unfortunately was soured by an experience of checking in at KLIA from KL to Melbourne. It was so stressful. There was no whatsoever customer service. I arrived at the airport at 7 am for a 1030 am flight and queued for A whole hour just to drop my check in luggage. The queue was long and snaked through the airport terminal. Passengers had no clue if they were in the right queue. The staff at the MH desk in essence sat and looked pretty bored and dumb. There was quite a rude man with an orange jacket who clearly looked flustered and was ordering a group of people to the back of the queue when it was obvious his other colleague had directed the group to where they were. It was inefficient and frustrating. While I had experienced a delightful in flight service, I cant say the same about the MH ground staff. Their operations manager has obviously not read the several tweeter comments that went back to 2014. #mh129 as similar complaints had been made on tweeter. MH just dont get it

Hey, so I remember seeing a Malaysia Airlines 747 in the retro livery at Chicago O'hare taxing... Did I mistaken that for another airplane? - That was 7/15/16

Malaysia certainly is not a shit country and Malaysia Airlines is not a shit airline. 2 accidents 1 you could never imagined. Getting shot out of the air when Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and Emirates were all flying in the same airspace Malaysia was, hardly the fault of Malaysia Airlines.
MH 370 is still a mystery and anyone saying anything else is simply speculating. Since 2014 incidents Air Asia crashed into the Ocean killing all on board , Germanwings crashed into a mountain killing all on board, Emirates crashed at Dubai luckily all got out alive. There have been many incidents and crashes sine the 2 Malaysia Airlines incidents. To call out 1 carrier as being unsafe is ridiculous many airlines have had emergency landings all could have rexulted in fatalities. Since July 2014 Malaysia Airlines has had impecible safety record. Maybe those hating on Malaysia Airlines should reads some true facts and research on aircraft incidents since 2014.
Malaysia Airlines are a great carrier i have flown over 50 flights and never had a bad experience.
My sister flew Malaysia Airlines 3 days after MH 17 with not a issue or complaint.

Someone just wanted to make some money for the paint job. That's the story of Malaysian Airlines. I never fly with them eventhough I am a Malaysian.