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Old Mar 20, 2019, 11:57 pm
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DanV
 
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Originally Posted by markis10


LOL, every single Aussie airline that flew to KUL got burned, and that was before Air Asia was around, no chance in hell things have got better!
Indeed. QF and AN tried SYD-KUL back in the 90s, even with MH feed for AN and vice-versa for MH (as AN/MH were JV partners on the KUL route back then) they still couldn't make it work. The Asian financial crisis in the late 90s was a convenient, but necessary excuse for QF and AN to pull out entirely, leaving the non-stop market entirely to MH.

JQ also tried SYD-KUL with their A330s. It was going to be very tough for them against AirAsia X with their large hub. JQ could only get the O&D/VFR low yielding scraps.
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