Malaysia Airlines

Air Lease Corporation Announces Delivery of First of 25 New Boeing 737-8 Aircraft to Malaysia Airlines Berhad

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) announced today the first of 25 new Boeing 737-8 aircraft delivered to Malaysia Airlines Berhad from ALC’s order book with Boeing.

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  • Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) announced today the first of 25 new Boeing 737-8 aircraft delivered to Malaysia Airlines Berhad from ALC’s order book with Boeing.
  • Featuring CFM LEAP 1B-27 engines, this new Boeing aircraft is the first 737-8 addition to Malaysia Airlines’ fleet.
  • “We are thrilled to announce ALC’s first of 25 new Boeing 737-8 aircraft delivered to Malaysia Airlines,” said Steven Udvar-Házy, Executive Chairman of Air Lease Corporation.
  • Malaysia Airlines is the national carrier of Malaysia, offering the best way to fly to, from and around Malaysia.

Rewards Beyond Borders: utu and Enrich, the Loyalty programme of Malaysia Airlines enable Enrich Members to earn Enrich points through VAT Refunds

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Enrich, the Travel and Lifestyle Loyalty programme of Malaysia Airlines has entered a partnership with utu, a travel tech company to provide its members with up to 40% additional Enrich Points through tax refunds on tax-free purchases made during international travel.

Key Points: 
  • This marks an exciting headway in the travel experience for Enrich members, introducing a new avenue for earning points through tax-free shopping.
  • Through utu, shoppers can now receive the equivalent of up to USD140 in Enrich points for every USD100 in value-added tax (VAT) refunds – a remarkable 40% boost.
  • The refunds are delivered in the form of extra Enrich Points, propelling Malaysia Airlines' customers quickly towards achieving their next dream trip through shopping.
  • Once this process is completed, the upsized value of the refund in Enrich Points is credited to their Enrich account.

Death, grief and survival: two new Australian novels reinvent the elegy for an age of climate catastrophe

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who are producing fictions.

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  • Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who are producing fictions.
  • In the story, Susie is employed by a crying room where people go to express their emotions.
  • She thought of the clink, clink, clink of sharp metal implements chipping away patiently at cold, dark, stone.
  • They reminded Susie of miners in a cave, with a small circle of light above them to illuminate their features.
  • She thought of the clink, clink, clink of sharp metal implements chipping away patiently at cold, dark, stone.
  • The tree, growing against the odds in a hot climate, amid the bones of a long-dead calf, symbolises hope.

Distruped expectations

    • Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here, which might be labelled as autofiction, also disrupts expectations.
    • She lives in a condemned apartment, with trappings of faded grandeur, making Silver City almost affordable.
    • When Franz is expelled by the closing of the borders, BB remains alone with her dog Baby and spectral visitations from “Him”.
    • BB imagines these pronouncements are philosophical observations by Simone Weil, whose book Gravity and Grace she reads as a “vision of surrender”.
    • Although she finds a language to engage with troubled dogs like the Doberman, she’s distrusted by local trainers who see her as competition.

Elegy

    • Maybe it’s elegy.
    • Maybe it’s elegy.
    • They decide that elegy is having a moment, but that it’s also “problematic, Judeo-Christian, colonial, or at the very least nostalgic”.
    • But in elegy, the way a person dies is not the point.
    • With the climate catastrophe looming in the background, Doyle and Shirm are renovating the elegy for the current moment.

Malaysia Airlines Selects Viasat to Enhance In-Flight Experience On Board Its New Boeing 737-8 Fleet

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced Malaysia Airlines -- the national carrier of Malaysia -- has selected the company to outfit the airline's new Boeing 737-8 fleet with its leading wireless In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system.

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  • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced Malaysia Airlines -- the national carrier of Malaysia -- has selected the company to outfit the airline's new Boeing 737-8 fleet with its leading wireless In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system.
  • In the pipeline as part of its connectivity strategy, Malaysia Airlines will also introduce high-quality internet connectivity on its 737-8 aircraft.
  • The agreement encompasses factory installation of Viasat's equipment on its aircraft, the first of which is expected to be delivered to Malaysia Airlines later this month.
  • Once introduced, high-speed internet connectivity on Malaysia Airlines' 737-8 aircraft will allow customers to stay connected throughout their journey.

'I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English': a vivid, playful debut disrupts clichés of docile Asian womanhood

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Mercifully, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, But The Girl, is effervescent on the page.

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  • Mercifully, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, But The Girl, is effervescent on the page.
  • As the narrator says,
    I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English: it hurt me, and it gave me acute pleasure.
  • I had a sadomasochistic fascination with English: it hurt me, and it gave me acute pleasure.

Telling it slant

    • This self-awareness of movement against expectations infuses the book’s unapologetic over-sharing through the chatty, first-person narration with a sense of doubt and uncertainty.
    • It’s a refreshing commitment to self-critique and a refusal of foreclosure.
    • Read more:
      In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Homage to Sylvia Plath

    • This theme of tribute, disappointment, critique and conversation – of holding Plath close – continues as verse and refrain throughout the novel.
    • For instance, Clementine, a fellow artist in residence in Scotland, attempts to paint a portrait of the narrator over a portrait of Plath.
    • This probing of Plath’s work continues, as the narrator retrospectively charts her growth towards a less hagiographic and more open-eyed apprehension of Plath.
    • Read more:
      Sylvia Plath's famous collection Ariel is far darker than she envisaged

Cultural cringe and unstable ‘home’

    • There are the expected responses of shame and cultural cringe at Australia’s provincialism.
    • But they are complicated by the unstable category of “home”, where “home” is not just Australia, but also Malaysia.
    • Sometimes I wished my parents had immigrated somewhere else; being a child of immigrants always made your birth country feel so random and unnecessary.
    • This particular positioning of the self also plays out in the way the female Asian body is perceived and possessed.
    • Read more:
      André Dao's brilliant debut novel explores his grandfather's ten-year detention without trial by the Vietnamese government

A love letter

    • This novel is also ultimately a love letter, especially to the narrator’s formidable Ah Ma, a former maid, now “a matriarch demanding the best of the best for her and for her alone”.
    • It is also a love letter to the narrator’s parents, Ma and Ikanyu – an exploration of all that is inherited, all that is suffered and all that is owed.
    • “To hit you is to love you,” the narrator is told after being smacked by her father when she calls her mother “a grouch”.

The firings of Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson doesn't mean the end of hyperpartisan cable news networks

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Thursday, May 4, 2023

“I am happy to know someone like him no longer has the platform he had built,” she exclaimed.

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  • “I am happy to know someone like him no longer has the platform he had built,” she exclaimed.
  • Similarly, CNN anchor Don Lemon’s ouster on April 23, 2023 – the same day as Carlson’s – generated an equal amount of celebration from conservatives.
  • In this age of hyperpartisan news programming, both Carlson and Lemon proved talented at providing perspectives that confirmed their audience’s view of the world.

Hyperpartisan news media

    • The internet, smartphones and social media further fragmented audiences.
    • As journalists and media scholars have noted, the solution for many media companies in the 1990s was to target their programming to a single demographic instead of trying to attract a larger, general audience.
    • Scholars and journalists note that in order to attract a targeted demographic, cable news media relied on hyperpartisan reporting that framed news stories as liberal versus conservative.

Carlson’s duplicity

    • Whether it was accurate or not, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” provided far-right ideological content that drew an average of 3 million nightly viewers, and Carlson became the highest-rated personality in cable news media.
    • Whether he actually believed any of those falsehoods remains unknown.
    • At the time, nearly 70% of Tucker’s target audience believed that the election was stolen.
    • As a result, despite knowing the 2020 election was not stolen, Carlson continued to report the exact opposite of what he knew to be false.

A boorish Lemon

    • In stark contrast to Carlson, Lemon positioned himself as CNN’s chief liberal scolder of the Trump era.
    • An April 2023 report from Variety appeared to spell the end for Lemon on CNN.
    • According to the report, Lemon was accused of threatening several female co-workers because they were hired for positions he felt he deserved.

Credibility gap

    • At CNN, audience size for the show on which Lemon was co-host was shrinking for quite some time -– much like that for the network in general.
    • Furthermore, since 2021, major companies such as Disney, Papa John’s, Poshmark and T-Mobile had refused to advertise on Carlson’s program.
    • For cable news personalities, partisanship – not journalism – can be a job requirement.

Malaysia Airlines signs 5-year deal with IBS Software to Leverage AI and ML Technology Solutions

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) signs a five-year deal to migrate its crew management systems to IBS Software's cloud-based platform, iFlight Crew, to further automate and upgrade its aviation operations with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning benefits.

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  • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) signs a five-year deal to migrate its crew management systems to IBS Software's cloud-based platform, iFlight Crew, to further automate and upgrade its aviation operations with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning benefits.
  • Ahmad Luqman Mohd Azmi, Chief Executive Officer of Airlines at Malaysia Aviation Group says: "Malaysia Airlines and IBS Software have a long history of working together since 2009.
  • Jitendra Sindhwani, President and Head of Global Sales & Marketing, IBS Software says: "Crew planning and optimisation are central to any airline's operations, cost management, and customer service delivery.
  • Malaysia Airlines is a valued partner, and we are thrilled to work together to take their crew management solutions and strategies to new heights."

Malaysia Airlines signs 5-year deal with IBS Software to Leverage AI and ML Technology Solutions

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) signs a five-year deal to migrate its crew management systems to IBS Software's cloud-based platform, iFlight Crew, to further automate and upgrade its aviation operations with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning benefits.

Key Points: 
  • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) signs a five-year deal to migrate its crew management systems to IBS Software's cloud-based platform, iFlight Crew, to further automate and upgrade its aviation operations with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning benefits.
  • Ahmad Luqman Mohd Azmi, Chief Executive Officer of Airlines at Malaysia Aviation Group says: "Malaysia Airlines and IBS Software have a long history of working together since 2009.
  • Jitendra Sindhwani, President and Head of Global Sales & Marketing, IBS Software says: "Crew planning and optimisation are central to any airline's operations, cost management, and customer service delivery.
  • Malaysia Airlines is a valued partner, and we are thrilled to work together to take their crew management solutions and strategies to new heights."

Congregation of the airport community at inter airport Southeast Asia 2023

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Thursday, March 2, 2023

The 8th edition inter airport Southeast Asia anticipates 4,000 airports, airlines, ground handlers, architects, designers, consultants, and many more to converge at the Marina Bay Sands and Convention Centre.

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  • The 8th edition inter airport Southeast Asia anticipates 4,000 airports, airlines, ground handlers, architects, designers, consultants, and many more to converge at the Marina Bay Sands and Convention Centre.
  • Returning after 4 years of hiatus, inter airport Southeast Asia presents a 3-day conference featuring 30 high-level representations from airports, business partners and from the aviation ecosystem.
  • "We are at a critical juncture in Asia with passenger traffic recovering rapidly and likely to reach a full recovery late this year or next year.
  • The remote-controlled aircraft tug will be on display at the Singapore Pavilion at IASEA 2023 for industry professionals to understand how it can benefit their airport operations.

Avolon: 2022 Full Year Results

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

“Momentum in global aviation continued throughout 2022 and we worked closely with our customers to support their demand for aircraft.

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  • “Momentum in global aviation continued throughout 2022 and we worked closely with our customers to support their demand for aircraft.
  • Our financial performance was strong, with a five-fold increase in adjusted net income and 9% growth in lease revenue.
  • Operating cashflow was 35% higher than 2021 and also ahead of our pre-pandemic cashflow in 2019.
  • A non-cash impairment charge on aircraft in Russia impacted our reported performance but the underlying financial strength of our business is clear.