Malaysia Airlines joins oneworld – with a Paris and Amsterdam loophole

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• Phillip says:

  1 Feb1 February 07:41

  It is very interesting to see how BA is using places like Mumbai, Istanbul and Paris to connect onto MH flights to and from Heathrow. Rather disappointed that for the time being there are neither Business not First class reward seats available at any time in November and December for the KUL-LHR route! There are however to Paris!

• Ed says:

  1 Feb1 February 08:17

  I’ve done a bit of searching and can only find MH Economy tickets – perhaps I’m looking in the wrong place?

  • Raffles says:

    1 Feb1 February 09:05

    I got loads of Business dates to come up in May, although that was the only month I checked.

• James67 says:

  1 Feb1 February 08:45

  Or if you have AAdvantage miles you can have Asia to Europe or vice versa for 52.5 k ow in business with low tax and fees, especially from AMS. Still waiting for AA to load. However, always worth checking MH premium revenue fares as there is sometimes great value on those. Note also the OW double miles promo if flying soon.

  • Raffles says:

    1 Feb1 February 09:04

    I forgot to mention the double miles promo! For tickets bought after today only (although that may not be enforced) all oneworld airlines are offering double miles on Malaysia flights from 15 Feb to 15 April.

    Malaysia has historically run some aggressive business class sale fares which book into Z class, which BA treat as miles earning. Would be interesting if these continue.

    I too am keen to see what taxes AA adds. If they are surcharge-free then it is another reason to think about building an AA balance.

    • James67 says:

      1 Feb1 February 13:35

      Having purchased AA miles a few days ago I have just been stung as a 50% bonus offer has started today. Buying 40k miles for about £850 gets you 60k miles with bonus. Depending on needs this is a great buy.

      For example ow business beteeen Europe and se Asia can be had for 52.5k miles plus minimum taxes if avoiding BA and UK departure. An even better redemption value is 60k for a Europe to India return in business for 60k availing of very low tax and fees, and full flat bed seats on AY.

      Purchaseing just 10k miles more for about £200 more opens up ow F on my first example and 15k more rtn F in my second example. This promotion can easily make it worthwhile to purchase full miles needed for a redemption, especially on the very expensive North America to Europe routes. So for those without any AA or other miles its a great opportunity to experience long haul premium profucts at relatively low cost.

• F2O says:

  1 Feb1 February 09:48

  Thank you Raffles for your blog/’reminder’, and so I got meself THREE J one-ways from CDG to KUL early-ish July for 180K Avios plus £599.10. Had wanted to use the 2for1 but like you said this is way better.

• Martyn says:

  1 Feb1 February 10:44

  This is awesome news, I would love to try out their J product. Shame there is no OW connection from EDI to either of those cities, but I suppose could be easily done with KLM/AF.

  The Sheraton in KL is also awesome and very inexpensive.

  • Raffles says:

    1 Feb1 February 11:06

    As is the Hilton, which shares a building with LeMeridien and has the advantage of being opposite the station where the airport express train arrives. Lots of very nice hotels, actually – although the Mandarin Oriental, nominally the poshest brand in town, is I think still badly in need of a refurbishment (one that is difficult to justify given KUL’s low room rates).

    • martyn says:

      1 Feb1 February 11:28

      I did a couple of nights in the Hilton, and it felt a bit characterless to me. Cool rooms though with sliding walls and what not. Can’t believe how cheap 5* hotels are in that city.

• gagravarr says:

  1 Feb1 February 11:06

  I flew with Malaysian over Christmas in Y, and their on-board staff were excellent. Friendly, helpful, always coming round with drinks and snacks. I was much less keen on their customer services and a few of their ground staff, but as long as you don’t have problems you ought to be fine!

  If you do fly in Y on their A380, try to get a window seat on the top deck. The window seats have large lockers next to them which you can put all your stuff in for easy access, and you can spread out a bit over them too, made for a great flight

• Raffles says:

  1 Feb1 February 14:48

  Since ba.com got updated (which was after I wrote that airberlin piece) it is automatic. Search for LHR to KUL at ba.com and the Malaysia flights will automatically show if available. Same with CDG and AMS. What date, roughly, did you want, and what class?

• G Grimes says:

  1 Feb1 February 17:43

  ..anyone having issues with booking Air Malaysia on
  BAEC..using AVIOS
  Looking to go CDG to Brisbane in Oct 2013 and it shows availability…everything seems fine till verified payment page..
  Then no matter what card I use it falls over..
  Called BAEC they say they can see no availability and its
  “Teeting troubles..” damn frustrating

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