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(Source: the Star)

Published: Tuesday July 7, 2009 MYT 5:59:00 PM
MAS to suspend flights to New York from October

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will suspend its thrice-weekly services from Kuala Lumpur to New York via Stockholm from October due to low demand.

The national carrier’s commercial director Datuk Rashid Khan said the last flight to New York from Kuala Lumpur will be on Sept 30 while the last flight from New York will be on Oct 1 and on Oct 2 from Stockholm.

“We have decided to suspend the services as demand has dropped due to the global economic crisis,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

Rashid said the airline was was making arrangements to notify all affected customers.

He said customers who had tickets issued before Tuesday for flights from Kuala Lumpur to New York/Stockholm and vice versa and Stockholm to New York or vice versa will be eligible for refunds without additional fees.

“We can also make arrangements for them to fly with our partner airlines should they wish to continue with their journey,” he said.

He said the airline’s thrice-weekly Kuala Lumpur-Taipei-Los Angeles flights would be maintained.

It will also maintain an office in New York and continue to offer services to the Big Apple via its partner airlines.

Customers could also connect to Stockholm via Amsterdam with MAS’ code share partner KLM.

Rashid advised customers who had purchased their tickets via MAS offices, call centres and website to contact MAS’ call centre at 1-300-88-3300 for Malaysia, 1-800-552-9264 in Los Angeles and 08-50530050 in Sweden.

so sad...

Everytime I fly into LAX and JFK, I could not resist to notice how SQ (the closest neighbor to M'sia) and CX (another neighbor to M'sia) could afford to have 3 flts a day to both destinations and SURVIVED !!! ..........

Whereas, our so called "Decorated National Carrier and Award Winning Airline" could not even survive a daily flt to both cities ........

I wonder what went wrong, how the marketing & revenue people in MAS did their job until they lost their share in these lucrative sectors (at least to SQ and CX) ...........

I remembered MAS used to have 18 flights a week to LHR but reduced to 14 flights a week but SQ and CX keep doing the same number of flights per week, of course they are flexible enough to change aircraft type when the load factors are reduced ..........

Its time for MAS to buckle up and fire all deadwoods and get a real business minded work force to do the job instead of cronies or highly politically connected people who only know how to go head to head with Air Asia but chicken out in an open global aviation market ............

Sad but TRUE ...........

The Unlearned

Maybe when the economic crisis is getting better, MAS will resume it's flight to NY and Stockholm.

Less hours, less allowance for all crews

Less hours, less usage, no need ELR aircraft!

Less hours, less income, closed shop soon

ps. MH let's plan something to save the 1Malaysia profile...

so after that, airlines mne yg i bole naek? wakaka

hei.. its ok.. dont be sad. at least they are still flying... thanks to dato idris. if it's not bcoz of him i dun think MAS still standing... wateva it is they saving your b*** if u're a cabin crew. cheer up ok..