MH003

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View of MAS airplane arrived at heathrow Airport. At Heathrow airport the airplane is sprayed with disinfectant for some reason before the passengers are allowed to disembark.

Malaysian Airline Aeroplanes

Referring to Malaysia Airline Going Places, there are several types of aircrafts being mobilised to transport passengers and cargo. The aircrafts were built either by Boieng or Aerobus.




B747-400P
Passenger Seating: 359
Engine: Pratt & Whitney PW4056
Length: 70.70m (321ft 11 in)
Wing Span: 64.90m (212ft 11in)
Height: 19.41m (63ft 8in)
Range: 12,964km (7,000 nm)
Maximum fuel capacity: 57,285 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.86 (918 km/h)




B747-400F
Engine: Pratt & Whitney PW4056
Length: 68.6308m (225ft 2 in)
Wing Span: 59.6392m (195ft 8in)
Height: 19.5072m (64ft)
Range: 4500 nm (max payload)
Maximum fuel capacity: 53,985 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.86 (918 km/h)


B747-200F
Engine: Rolls Royce Barnoldswick RB211-524D4
Length: 68.6308m (225ft 2 in)
Wing Span: 59.6392m (195ft 8in)
Height: 19.5834m (64ft 3in)
Range: 3700 nm (max payload)
Maximum fuel capacity: 53,985 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.84 (897 km/h)



B777-200
Passenger Seating: 282
Engine: Rolls Royce Trent 892
Length: 63.73m (209ft 1in)
Wing Span: 60.93m (199ft 11in)
Height: 18.76m (61ft 6in)
Range: 12,779km (6,900 nm)
Maximum fuel capacity: 47,380 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.84 (897 km/h)



A330-300
Passenger Seating: 294
Engine: Pratt & Whitney PW4168
Length: 62.883m (206ft 3.7in)
Wing Span: 60.30m (197ft 10in)
Height: 16.828m (55ft 2.5in)
Range: 7,964km (4,300 nm)
Maximum fuel capacity: 25,861.4 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.82 (875 km/h)



A330-200
Passenger Seating: 229
Engine: Pratt & Whitney PW4168A
Length: 58.38m (191ft 6in)
Wing Span: 60.30m (197ft 10in)
Height: 17.9m (58ft 8in)
Range: 12,224km (6,600nm)
Maximum fuel capacity: 36,747.6 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.84 (897 km/h)




B737-400
Passenger Seating: 144
Engine: CFM56-3C1
Length: 36.40mm (119ft 5in)
Wing Span: 28.90m (94ft 10in)
Height: 11.07m (36ft 6in)
Range: 2,963km (1,600 nm)
Maximum fuel capacity: 6,200 US Gallons
Cruising Speed: Mach 0.74 (797 km/h)


Fokker 50 and DHC-6 Twin Otter are used to service shorter routes in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.

Enrich Redemption - An Experience

As a member of Enrich frequent flier programme, you will accumulate points every time that you travel using the participating carriers or purchasing items through any participating outlets. The points will expire after some time given that you did not redeem the points.

However, if you want to redeem your Enrich points, you should be prepared for the following facts:

1. Your points will be deducted upon redemption, fair enough. For example for a return flight from Kuching to KLIA, 25,000 points will be deducted.

2. You have to pay cash for Airport Tax. Keep in mind that the amount of airport tax is very expensive. For example, for a return flight from Kuching to KLIA (true as of this posting), you have to pay cash RM229 for airport tax. So you need to have some more cash if you plan to use your Enrich points for your spouse also.

3. After confirming your flight details, you cannot change the time and date of your bookings. Unless you are pretty sure about your itinerary, you can go ahead with your bookings otherwise you have to really give a lot of thought about your bookings. You still can change your flight but you have to pay some amount of money as a penalty. Well, that is the price of trying to utilize things that are so called free flight.

4. You are only allowed to get the ticket at the MAS ticketing office. If you want to get the ticket at the MAS ticketing office at the airport, your request will not be entertained because their ticketing office at the airport is meant only for immediate flight.

Well, those are the experienced that I got recently when I tried to redeem for my so called free flight. Actually, the flights are not free after all. You have to use their carrier frequent enough (that is their motto, frequent flier) in order to get the free flight. They should make it much more friendlier and more accommodating to the need of their customers.