Malaysia Airlines quit Beirut

[globetrotter]

With all the confusion surrounding their planned route cuts and the sudden u-turn in regards to that, no one noticed the airline has withdrawn service to BEY sometime during summer, it was served twice weekly with A330-300 via Dubai, in the past route was also served with 777 and A330-200 as well as upgraded seasonally to 744, MASkargo operated freighter service there as well for a short while couple of years ago.

JAL is the only other East Asian carrier to have served Lebanon around the 1960s or 70s, other Asian carriers PIA uptil 70s and again for a short while during 90s, Air india uptil 70s and Sri Lankan from mid 90s to 2001 also served the city.

[BrightCedars]

Yep, I was wondering this morning when I saw a thread on a.net.

Now, they have a route KUL-DXB-AMM, I wonder if that didn't replace BEY as the end point already some time ago. Do we know what will happen to AMM? Will it be KUL-AUH-AMM or just no more AMM as well?

[globetrotter]

Didnt know they started Amman, where did you hear of it?

[BrightCedars]

Seen it on their route map and timetable when I looked for BEY.

[globetrotter]

Not showing at website, maybe it was temporary service or code share.

[globetrotter]

Code Share:

1. Kuala Lumpur/Amman MH9195 Flight duration: 12h 55

Malaysia Airlines Malaysia Airlines Operated by Royal Jordanian

Departure

22:20
Tue 15 Nov
Kuala Lumpur (KUL), Malaysia , Kuala Lumpur International Airport terminal M

Arrival

05:15 + 1 day
Tue 15 Nov
Amman (AMM), Jordan , Queen Alia terminal 2

Flight information:

e-ticket
Operated by Royal Jordanian
Meal is served on board
Airbus Industrie A330

[BrightCedars]

With the Gulf carriers so conveniently located on the way between BEY (or equivalent cities) and the Far East or even Australia, I doubt we will see a hub busting operation any time soon. The only other ports near the region with direct Asia service are CAI and IST, and the specificity of the TLV case.

ME also flew to Asia and Australia at one point, I don't see them renewing that experience very soon.
However, alliance forces may help build some bridges between regional homes of a given alliance.

[globetrotter]

In the region Amman got served by Garuda back in the 90s probably the only East Asian carrier to fly there, MD11 from Batam and Jakarta going onto London, Syria hasnt got any Asian service except the short stint by Malaysian due to Beirut closure in 2006 catering BEY traffic only.

Cathay and Thai were interested in doing BEY some years back too.