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The following are the highlights of
the Malaysia Airlines sectors:
Orient & North America
•
Continued improvement of the
US economy and strong economic
performance in the North Asia
markets of Hong Kong, China,
Taiwan and South Korea
contributed to a marked increase
in load factors and yields on the
Orient & North America routes.
The Japan routes performed
satisfactorily despite the uncertain
state of the Japanese economy.
•
Capacity growth in the region was
quite restrained during the year,
except for an additional frequency
to Hong Kong following the
commencement of code-share
arrangements with Cathay Pacific
in September, 2000 and an additional
frequency to Shanghai in
January 2001.
•
As a result, the region posted the
most impressive gain in load
factor and yield and a double-digit
growth in revenue.
Europe & Middle East
•
Contributing close to one-third of
international passenger revenue,
the European routes continued
to experience improving traffic
demand and load factors under
generally favourable economic
conditions in the UK as well as
within the Euro currency zone.
•
Depreciation of the European currencies
affected yields negatively
but revenue growth remained
strong as a result of very high load
factors achieved on the European
routes and the increase in business
class traffic.
•
Capacity increase on the European
routes was mainly from converting
the B777 operation on the
Manchester route to B747 and
mounting an additional frequency
to Frankfurt.
•
Middle East routes performed
satisfactorily with an additional
frequency to Jeddah whilst traffic
demand on the Istanbul route
recovered rapidly from the adverse
effects of the earthquake in 1999.
Australia & New Zealand
•
Routes to Australia and New
Zealand also experienced strong
growth in traffic demand following
the injection of additional
frequencies to Sydney, Melbourne,
Perth and Auckland.
•
Load factors were generally higher
compared to the year before and
revenue grew at a double-digit
rate, despite a softening in yields
as economic conditions weakened
with a sharp depreciation of the
currencies in the later part of 2000.
Asia & Africa
•
The economies of the markets
served in this region, primarily
Southeast Asia, India and South
Africa, continued to show good
growth during the year although
the currencies weakened.
•
Indonesia remained unpredictable
in its political and economic direction
and intense competition was
faced on the Indonesian routes
during the later part of the year.
•
Except for Indonesia, most of the
routes experienced strong traffic
demand and high seat factors
under tight capacity conditions
and this enabled significant
improvement in revenue and
yields despite the weakening
of the currencies.
Singapore & Brunei
•
Performance on the routes to
Singapore was satisfactory on the
back of the strong Singapore
economy.
•
The Brunei routes continued
to experience falling demand and
poor load factors after steps were
taken in late 1999 to rationalize
capacity between Kuala Lumpur
and Bandar Seri Begawan on
a code-share arrangement with
Royal Brunei.
Malaysian domestic
operations
•
On the domestic front, the additional
capacity planned on
services within Malaysia was