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AirAsia and<br />
AirAsia X are<br />
going completely<br />
online at klia2!<br />
Airlines<br />
Malaysia's favourite "Now Everyone Can Fly" airline has fully implemented a<br />
self checking-in system for all AirAsia and AirAsia X passengers travelling through<br />
klia2 since mid-May <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
So, if you're heading to the airport and you have not checked-in via web or<br />
mobile, fret not, as there are self check-in kiosks available at the airport before<br />
proceeding to the baggage drop counters for guests with checked-in baggage.<br />
klia2 has a total of 62 kiosks available for passengers wishing to use the self<br />
check-in kiosks.<br />
Both web and mobile check-ins are available 14 days up to one hour before<br />
scheduled time of departure for AirAsia flights, while guests on AirAsia X flights<br />
will be able to conduct web or mobile check-in 14 days up to four hours before<br />
their scheduled time of departure.<br />
Guests who are pregnant, travelling with infants, have reduced mobility or require<br />
special needs, aged 16 and below and is travelling alone, have medical conditions<br />
or illnesses can approach the dedicated service counter for assistance.<br />
For more updates on AirAsia, follow them on Facebook (facebook.com/AirAsia)<br />
and Twitter (twitter.com/AirAsia).<br />
It's a bird... It's a plane...<br />
It's Antonov An-225 Mriya!<br />
If you were wondering what was that loud rumble or if you<br />
truly did see an aeroplane during the second week of May at<br />
KLIA, we can assure that you do not need to check your glasses.<br />
It was indeed an aeroplane. To be specific, it was the Antonov<br />
An-225 Mriya — the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world.<br />
Having stopped at KLIA for refuelling, the plane was on its<br />
journey to deliver a generator weighing 130 tonnes to Perth,<br />
Australia. Mriya, which is Ukrainian for 'dream', landed in<br />
Malaysia for its second time, and Malaysia remains the only<br />
ASEAN country where it has touched down.<br />
DANCING WITH THE STARS<br />
To explain the giant proportions of this colossal aircraft, a<br />
Boeing 747 and the US Air Force C-5A Galaxy are puny little<br />
dwarfs (okay, slight exaggeration, but you get the point).<br />
The plane was designed for delivering components of<br />
Russia's Energia-Buran space shuttle complex to the<br />
Baikonur space range but this was cancelled after the<br />
collapse of the Soviet Union.<br />
Photo credit: Mohd Sofian Hilmi, plane spotter<br />
However, the plane has since been tasked on and off to perform<br />
a number of unprecedented haulage missions including the<br />
transportation of solid blocks of industrial equipment weighing<br />
up to 180 tonnes and huge parts of space rockets.<br />
The An-225 is powered by six engines (six ZMKB Progress<br />
Lotarev D-18T turbofan jets, each capable of pumping over<br />
23,000 kilogrammes of thrust), able to carry a maximum takeoff<br />
weight of 640 tonnes, measures 84 metres long and 18 metres<br />
high (equivalent to a five-storey building), well-equipped with<br />
32 tyres and has a wingspan measuring 88 metres.<br />
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