MAS removes fuel surcharge on domestic travel

SUBANG: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will remove its domestic fuel surcharge for travel in Malaysia effective Wednesday, Jan 14.

It decided this after taking into account the decline in fuel prices, competitive pressures and the need to boost air travel during this period of economic slowdown.

“Today’s move is in line with the competition, ensuring even more competitive pricing,” MAS managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Sri Idris Jala said in a statement here Tuesday.

“Our stand is the total amount that the customer pays must be competitive, whether it’s the fares alone or fares in combination with the fuel surcharge. It’s the total sum of the parts that matters.”

The removal of the fuel surcharge will see more competitive prices for MH Value Fares which offers four fare options for economy class travel – MHlow, MHbasic, MHsmart and MHflex.
“There will be more value travelling with Malaysia Airlines as on top of the removal of the fuel surcharge, the fare options offer discounts off the fares - MHlow up to 70% discount, MHbasic, up to 50%; and MHsmart, up to 20%,” Idris said.

For international travel, MAS had earlier reduced fuel surcharges for travel from Malaysia to Korea, Japan, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore, and from other points of sales to various destinations.

“We are always reviewing the surcharge as we continue to benchmark the international fuel surcharge against our competitors. In markets where other carriers are the major players, we will follow if they drop the surcharge. In markets where we lead, we will evaluate customer demand versus supply,” he added.

Despite recent falls in oil price, MAS said its fuel costs are still higher compared with when the surcharges were first introduced in 2004.

“The fuel surcharge only covers about 30% of the fuel cost,” Idris said.

Detachment for airways flying at Subang...

Detachment to Subang for finishing my twin engine seems to be the one solution for the horrible weather at Kota Bharu. It's happened to be one the 4 December... Sorry for posting old stories due to some reason and i'm now at my home.. Glad to be home after half a year since my last coming back...

Departing from Subang on a cloudy morning.. It's rainbow...

As view from the window of the aircraft, it's Subang Air Force Base...

Ipoh's airport...We are doing VPS letdown...

It's Langkawi... My first time been here...

Taxying out from Langkawi for Penang...

Landed on Penang.. It's A330...

Parked at GA of Penang... Waiting for refuelling truck....

While waiting for refuelling truck, i took some of my aircraft picture...

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9M-NAA... Happened to be Prime Minister at Penang...

Departed from Penang... It's an B737 taxying for Bay just after it landed...

Runway heading...

Penang's town..

Another view of Penang's town...

Penang's Bridge..

A closer view of Penang's Bridge..

Back to Subang.. Fireflyz's ATR 72...

Departing to KB for Instrument Rating Test...

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A nice view of clouds...

It's really cool...

We just past a CB forming up....

Vista Jet at Subang...

Vista Jet's Bombardier Learjet 60XR.. Currently this company owned 20 learjet60/60XR...

Guess what i saw the most interesting part on this aircraft... It's located under the portion of the rudder...

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Engine shutting down or picture taken using a powerful camera?

Is this a picture of propeller stop rotating or a picture taken using a powerful camera? The answer is propeller stop rotating on air during my exercise in the air today... We are practicing engine fire on the port side engine so the drill is to shut down the engine that is on fire...After practicing for the second time shutting down the engine in air, i finally got a chance to take the picture of the propeller stop rotating when the engine is been shut down...

Propeller stop rotating after shutting down at 2000 AGL...

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Test Overview

I'm taking the English Test...

My Landing on Diamond 40