MAS will stop flying to Argentina & South Africa

In order to cut costs, Malaysia national carrier, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will stop flying to Johannersburg and Cape Town in South Africa and Buenos Aires in Argentina starting early next year. I heard from one of the employees of MAS told me that the load factor is good but the yield is bad due to lack of premium customers, Business Class and First Class. The reasons they are not flying with MAS because the products are outdated. Other carriers such as Emirates, Qatar Airways and Singapore Airlines which flies to that particular routes and offers full flat bed with the seats arrangement of 1-2-1 on business class makes the passenger feel so comfortable to fly them. In closer, MAS business class is angle lie flat bed with the seats arrangement of 2-3-2 which is pack and outdated. Besides that, MAS also faced another problem with some restrictions on their flights which they are not allow to pick passengers from Cape Town to Buenos Aires. Maybe MAS should transit with other cities instead Cape Town which don't have any restrictions on flights or working with government of Malaysia to sign bilateral agreement with government of South Africa for open skies.

Besides that, MAS will reduce flights to Dubai in stages until they operate twice weekly due to load factor problem. They will also stop flying to Damman which transit in Dubai. In closer, Emirates, the national carrier of UAE offers 17 flights weekly from Dubai to Kuala Lumpur and even operate the world's biggest aircraft to Kuala Lumpur on certain days. The problem which I can identify is products offering resulting poor load factor. The products offering cover in-flight entertainment and premium products such as business class and first class. The current aircraft only offer small PTV and not fully flat bed on business class.