£1,500 business class flights London-Sydney / Melbourne on Malaysia Airlines

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• Jack says:

  2 Jan2 January 19:05

  Booked LON – KUL – HAN in business for next November…£1330 all in, including a grotty hostel for 1 night. The KUL – HAN flight is MH752 on a B738. Can’t get definite information on the seating but it may be recliner seats rather than refurb’d business cabin? Has anyone done this route recently?

  Although I’m now looking at QR flights as well as I didn’t realise there was such a big TP difference. 🙂 Agent reckons I can cancel the MH booking up until 23:59 tonight which is useful.

  Thanks!

  • James67 says:

    2 Jan2 January 23:45

    The 737-8 business seating is first 4 rows with reclining seats in 2+2 configuration. Best analogy is regional first on North American airlines. Thai regional J it is not but beats anything you will experience on regular European business flights. IMO perfectly adequate for the short flight to NBI. I would recommend you base your decision on shortest journey and convenience of arrival and departure times as opposed to perceived quality. However, IIRC you are looking at a middle of night transit in DOH to HAN, if that is the case I’d definitely stick with MH a380. Either the QR flight to
    /from HAN or SGN (cannot remember which) used to stop en route in BKK but that may no longer be the case.

• Nick says:

  2 Jan2 January 20:56

  Interesting.

• steve says:

  3 Jan3 January 17:32

  I looked for any dates in March to Melbourne and couldnt find anything less than £2300, infact, the cheapest was Cathay!!

  Im guessing a lot the the Malaysian deals are gone, annoyingly, I have to book hotels for my trip yet and this deal will have bumped up the prices of that :-/

• Kevin says:

  3 Jan3 January 20:45

  May I know how do I get BA tier point if I booked the Malaysia airline via online travel agent?

  • Rob says:

    3 Jan3 January 20:46

    You should be able to add your BA number via Manage My Booking on the Malaysia website, or call them, or do it at check in.

    • Damian Smith says:

      4 Jan4 January 19:52

      I was able to add our BAEC numbers through the expedia website after booking – on the confirmation page.

      I have been allocated seats for KUL – DPS (2nd row) but not allocated seats on LHR – KUL.

      Expedia has an option to choose seats – but then it says seatmap not found.

      I created a malaysia airlines account and was able to add and view my booking, but not to change anything…

• YC says:

  4 Jan4 January 00:11

  Anyway of stopping over in KUL for a period before catching the connecting flight with this deal?

  • Marc says:

    4 Jan4 January 15:00

    The best I could manage was 21 hour connection, there doesn’t look like anyway to force a stopover of any longer onto the booking

• Lucy says:

  4 Jan4 January 07:56

  Colleague at work mentioned they were going to holiday in Oz this year. I sent them your article and they booked flights last night. They are thrilled, first time flying business class.

• Talay says:

  4 Jan4 January 19:47

  Couldn’t get close to the £1500 number here on various dates. Closest was around £1750 and on those dates, Vietnam Airlines beat Malaysian !

  • Rob says:

    4 Jan4 January 20:16

    It looks like most of the seats have gone at these prices.

    • Talay says:

      5 Jan5 January 01:36

      Saves me from reconciling my desire for cheap seats with my desire to actually get there safely !

      • Rebecca says:

        5 Jan5 January 10:47

        I’m very tempted, the seats are available at dates which fit for my friends wedding. I’m slightly concerned about the safety record though!

        • Rob says:

          5 Jan5 January 11:15

          No safety issues – of the two incidents, one was entirely out of their control (shot down) and the second looks like it was a suicidal pilot or a total loss of pressure due to an airframe failure (unlikely to be maintenance related).

• Iain Chalmers says:

  22 Jan22 January 20:25

  Malaysia Airlines has great fares in First too. LHR-SYD for circa £2,700. Ebookers and Expedia. Fares found via Kayak and for various dates in 2017.

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