Hopefully when AirAsia goes to Honolulu & Pattaya in a few months time, it will not be forced to use aerobridge as it is not part of its business model. AirAsia will only use mobile stairs as shown in the picture. Honolulu & Pattaya airports please get ready to accommodate.
Updates @ 4:45 pm on 20-5-2015:
15 thoughts on “President Barack Obama Launching AirAsia X Flight To Honolulu?”
Another publicity stance to pop up the ailing AirAsia filled with debts. No wonder it is owing RM200 million PSC to MAHB. RM200 mill is a free of interest fund to be used as operational cost.
BK Sidhu, what had happened to AirAsia X where you had said that its IPO will be over subscribed by 6 times and now its share price stands at 27 Sen. Another con job by you to help with the publicity.
If Obama were to come to launch this low caste flight to Honolulu then his reputation as the President of America will be most questionable. I don’t think that the President and his advisers will be that stupid to endorse these companies that made losses and owed PSC. Let us wait and see what game they are playing.
It is typical of the Pariah. It all about hypes. He still think that people still believe in him. No more. Only idiots will trust him. AirAsia and AirAsia X are burdened with huge debts. PSC debt is one of them. The ships are sinking that’s why he needed to come out with his expansion bullshits. It is near game over. The Pariah’s outfits are collapsing one by one.
You called that expansion? We all know that they are having big financial problems. All the expansions are just diversion to fool us. I rest my case.
President Obama must be desperate to launch a low cost flight or any other flight to any part of USA. It is even more stupid of Obama Administration to deal with loss making low caste airline that owe PSC debt.
What are the idiots in MAHB doing about the Rm200 million PSC debt?
Obama coming to launch a low cost airline flight, he got to be out his his minds. Then his advisers must be of the same level as Najib’s advisers.
Trying to get Obama coming is another publicity exercise. When the ships are sinking, the captain is trying all the bullshits to fool Malaysians and the idiotic Ministry of Transport. Beware of all the expansion plans!
Obama won’t launch any new route for airlines. Even Jibby didn’t do it.
We know Obama & his advisers are not stupid to be fooled by the pariah but he is hoping against hope to save his sinking ships.
The pariah is running out of ideas and avenue to bullshit his way around. The end is very near. Just think about an airline owing RM200 of PSC, which are paid in advance by passengers and not the low caste airline. Why it is owing the PSC? CAsh flow must be tight!!
Please check with US Ambassador in KL>
May be Tony or AirAsia X should ask Obama to grant a subsidy of RM200 million to pay the PSC debt otherwise it will invite Putin to launch the flight to Hawaii. Obama or its advisors must be out of their minds to allow Obama to launch a low caste airline for the sake of publicities which are badly needed by that low caste to keep Airasia X afloat.
According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser paper, AirAsia X has lodged an application with the US DOT (Department of Transportation) to operate 4 flights a week on the KL-Honolulu sector (with a refuelling stop in Osaka), starting 1st November 2015.
If there is an “Open Skies” agreement between Malaysia and the US, such flights are permitted, as long as appropriate notices are lodged with the regulators in both countries.
Hawaii is President Obama’s home state, although his family residence has been in Chicago for many years now.
How Obama’s name was brought into this subject is a matter for conjecture.
As for the US DOT, it’s current primary focus is handling complaints by US airlines against the Gulf carriers Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways.
Approving flights from a “miniscule” location like Kuala Lumpur would be handled as a routine matter if there are no objections from US airlines, which there shouldn’t be if the bilateral Open Skies agreement is in force.
Of course, the fact that no US airline has found it worthwhile to operate flights to KLIA (as compared with, say, Changi Airport) should say a lot about the “lobbying power” of the Malaysian transport authorities!
It may be a public relation exercise to fly to Honolulu. As had been said by YB, it could not sustain London and Paris flight because of long haul how could it sustain the Honolulu flight. It is just going to be another hype to fool us and the Americans. AirAsia X had sustained losses of about RM700 million and the existing debt is believed to be in the region of RM500 million. Plus the PSC debt with MAHB. Can it fly to Honolulu?
AirAsia X has to make a commercial decision on whether it will be profitable to operate flights between KL and Honolulu. Which is as it should be.
You will note that MAS has stopped flights between KL and US cities, with the exception of Los Angeles. The reason given at the time was that the flights to the US were unprofitable and the load factors unsatisfactory.
That begs the question how SIA is able to operate multiple weekly flights between Singapore Changi Airport and Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, using aircraft like the A380 and the Boeing 777-300ER. Anecdotal evidence suggests that SIA operates these flights with good load factors in the premium and economy cabins.
As of now, Malaysians wishing to travel to Honolulu will have to transit either in Changi Airport or Tokyo Narita Airport, even with MAS’s Oneworld partners.
As, too, Malaysians wishing to travel to San Francisco or New York.
Is President Obama going to launch the Honolulu flight of the financially stricken AirAsia X? What a joke!
If Obama were to launch it then the American Predisent must be desperate for publicity like AirAsia. Obama should also help to pay AirAsia’s PSC debt of about RM200 million then Obama may get publicity in the Star with the help of BK Sidhu.
Another publicity stance to pop up the ailing AirAsia filled with debts. No wonder it is owing RM200 million PSC to MAHB. RM200 mill is a free of interest fund to be used as operational cost.
BK Sidhu, what had happened to AirAsia X where you had said that its IPO will be over subscribed by 6 times and now its share price stands at 27 Sen. Another con job by you to help with the publicity.
If Obama were to come to launch this low caste flight to Honolulu then his reputation as the President of America will be most questionable. I don’t think that the President and his advisers will be that stupid to endorse these companies that made losses and owed PSC. Let us wait and see what game they are playing.
It is typical of the Pariah. It all about hypes. He still think that people still believe in him. No more. Only idiots will trust him. AirAsia and AirAsia X are burdened with huge debts. PSC debt is one of them. The ships are sinking that’s why he needed to come out with his expansion bullshits. It is near game over. The Pariah’s outfits are collapsing one by one.
You called that expansion? We all know that they are having big financial problems. All the expansions are just diversion to fool us. I rest my case.
President Obama must be desperate to launch a low cost flight or any other flight to any part of USA. It is even more stupid of Obama Administration to deal with loss making low caste airline that owe PSC debt.
What are the idiots in MAHB doing about the Rm200 million PSC debt?
Obama coming to launch a low cost airline flight, he got to be out his his minds. Then his advisers must be of the same level as Najib’s advisers.
Trying to get Obama coming is another publicity exercise. When the ships are sinking, the captain is trying all the bullshits to fool Malaysians and the idiotic Ministry of Transport. Beware of all the expansion plans!
Obama won’t launch any new route for airlines. Even Jibby didn’t do it.
We know Obama & his advisers are not stupid to be fooled by the pariah but he is hoping against hope to save his sinking ships.
The pariah is running out of ideas and avenue to bullshit his way around. The end is very near. Just think about an airline owing RM200 of PSC, which are paid in advance by passengers and not the low caste airline. Why it is owing the PSC? CAsh flow must be tight!!
Please check with US Ambassador in KL>
May be Tony or AirAsia X should ask Obama to grant a subsidy of RM200 million to pay the PSC debt otherwise it will invite Putin to launch the flight to Hawaii. Obama or its advisors must be out of their minds to allow Obama to launch a low caste airline for the sake of publicities which are badly needed by that low caste to keep Airasia X afloat.
According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser paper, AirAsia X has lodged an application with the US DOT (Department of Transportation) to operate 4 flights a week on the KL-Honolulu sector (with a refuelling stop in Osaka), starting 1st November 2015.
If there is an “Open Skies” agreement between Malaysia and the US, such flights are permitted, as long as appropriate notices are lodged with the regulators in both countries.
Hawaii is President Obama’s home state, although his family residence has been in Chicago for many years now.
How Obama’s name was brought into this subject is a matter for conjecture.
As for the US DOT, it’s current primary focus is handling complaints by US airlines against the Gulf carriers Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways.
Approving flights from a “miniscule” location like Kuala Lumpur would be handled as a routine matter if there are no objections from US airlines, which there shouldn’t be if the bilateral Open Skies agreement is in force.
Of course, the fact that no US airline has found it worthwhile to operate flights to KLIA (as compared with, say, Changi Airport) should say a lot about the “lobbying power” of the Malaysian transport authorities!
It may be a public relation exercise to fly to Honolulu. As had been said by YB, it could not sustain London and Paris flight because of long haul how could it sustain the Honolulu flight. It is just going to be another hype to fool us and the Americans. AirAsia X had sustained losses of about RM700 million and the existing debt is believed to be in the region of RM500 million. Plus the PSC debt with MAHB. Can it fly to Honolulu?
AirAsia X has to make a commercial decision on whether it will be profitable to operate flights between KL and Honolulu. Which is as it should be.
You will note that MAS has stopped flights between KL and US cities, with the exception of Los Angeles. The reason given at the time was that the flights to the US were unprofitable and the load factors unsatisfactory.
That begs the question how SIA is able to operate multiple weekly flights between Singapore Changi Airport and Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, using aircraft like the A380 and the Boeing 777-300ER. Anecdotal evidence suggests that SIA operates these flights with good load factors in the premium and economy cabins.
As of now, Malaysians wishing to travel to Honolulu will have to transit either in Changi Airport or Tokyo Narita Airport, even with MAS’s Oneworld partners.
As, too, Malaysians wishing to travel to San Francisco or New York.
Is President Obama going to launch the Honolulu flight of the financially stricken AirAsia X? What a joke!
If Obama were to launch it then the American Predisent must be desperate for publicity like AirAsia. Obama should also help to pay AirAsia’s PSC debt of about RM200 million then Obama may get publicity in the Star with the help of BK Sidhu.