Korean Air New Flight & Some MH News

[Concorde777steward]

Korean Air will launch a trice weekly non-stop flight to Penang (Georgetown) by the end of this year. The timetable is as follows :

ICN - PEN
KE0676 1...... STD-0300 STA-1010 06.10hours 333
KE0676 ..3.5.. STD-2350 STA-0700* 06.10hours 333

PEN - ICN
KE0675 ..3.5.. STD-2005 STA-2230 06.40hours 333
KE0675 ......7 STD-2005 STA-0145* 06.40hours 333


Some MAS news
*increase in frequency
KUL - Bangalore 2x to 3x 333
KUL - Hyderabad 1x to 3x 333
KUL - New Delhi 4x to 5x 333
KUL - Mumbai 4x to 6x 333
KUL - Paris 4x to 5x 333
KUL - Manchester 4x to daily 744 (change in dep time : 10.45am from 11.30pm)

*New flight
KUL - Chengdu (China) - KUL 3x 333

*Soon to be launched
KUL - Ahmedabad 3x 772
KUL - Cochin 3x 333
KUL - Calcutta 3x 333
KUL - Wuhan (China) 3x 734
KUL - Kunming (China) 3x 734


Malaysia Airlines will receives another 3 ex-Swissair A330-200 by the end of this year & another 2 freshly from Seattle (Boeing).

MAS fleets by the end of this year
(5) Twin-Otter
(10) Fokker 50
(39) Boeing B737-400
(eight) Airbus A330-200
(12) Airbus A330-300 *including 1 broken 333
(17) Boeing B747-400
(17) Boeing B777-200ER

On order
(6) Airbus A380
(2) Boeing B747-400