Melburnian1
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The Saturday 12 December KUL-origin MH123 has been an even worse timekeeper than the Friday one the day before, with the current flight taking off at 0550 this morning (Sunday 13) despite departure scheduled for 2330; arrival in SYD will be at 1630 rather than 1045 with no doubt some tired and grumpy passengers. A333 9M-MTO is operating the flight. MH122 back to KUL was scheduled originally at 1530, already 10 minutes ago, but this has become 1745.
Combining the above couple of posts there is quite a bit of very bad late running occurring with MH's Australian sectors despite it fairly recently having scaled back frequencies.
However in its favour the airline has not had any 12 hour delays as has QF with its A333s in the last couple of days.
UPDATE: The Sunday evening arrival in SYD (13 December), MH141, had not taken off from KUL until 1033 despite an 0900 timetabled pushback from the gate, so it is expected to be 50 minutes late into SYD at 2105, with 9M-MTH the aircraft. As MH140 back to KUL is the 2155 hours departure, it will be at least 15 minutes late departing.
MH129, the 1015 13 December KUL - MEL (A333 9M-MTB) took off at 1311 and instead of being in the Victorian capital at 2110 will now arrive at 2324. AS MH128 is due out at 0045 on Monday 14 December, it should just be on time departing (assuming all goes well).
The last couple of days indicate that there is a problem with MH in KUL. So many flights are significantly late. Lower fuel prices must be helping, but so far there is not any indication that MH has returned to profitability. We'll have to see if Mr Mueller can turn it around or whether that turns out not to be the case.
Combining the above couple of posts there is quite a bit of very bad late running occurring with MH's Australian sectors despite it fairly recently having scaled back frequencies.
However in its favour the airline has not had any 12 hour delays as has QF with its A333s in the last couple of days.
UPDATE: The Sunday evening arrival in SYD (13 December), MH141, had not taken off from KUL until 1033 despite an 0900 timetabled pushback from the gate, so it is expected to be 50 minutes late into SYD at 2105, with 9M-MTH the aircraft. As MH140 back to KUL is the 2155 hours departure, it will be at least 15 minutes late departing.
MH129, the 1015 13 December KUL - MEL (A333 9M-MTB) took off at 1311 and instead of being in the Victorian capital at 2110 will now arrive at 2324. AS MH128 is due out at 0045 on Monday 14 December, it should just be on time departing (assuming all goes well).
The last couple of days indicate that there is a problem with MH in KUL. So many flights are significantly late. Lower fuel prices must be helping, but so far there is not any indication that MH has returned to profitability. We'll have to see if Mr Mueller can turn it around or whether that turns out not to be the case.
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