18 flights cancelled in Malaysia, one in Zimbabwe

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Malaysia Airlines to cancel 18 more flights for millennium rollover

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia Airlines will cancel an additional 18 international flights that straddle the millennium due to low bookings, the airline said in a statement Friday. The cancellations will affect return flights from Amsterdam, Rome, Cairo, Perth, Beirut, Los Angeles, Cape Town, Shanghai and Nagoya between Dec 30. 1999 and Jan. 1, 2000, the airline said.

Malaysia Airlines, the national carrier, had announced earlier this month that it was forced to cancel 74 international and domestic flights due to lower demand for seats as well as the need to comply with international aviation codes for the rollover to 2000.

The latest changes raised the number of cancellations to 32, the airline said in a statement carried in The New Straits Times and the Star newspapers.

Malaysia Airlines, which reported full readiness to tackle the Y2K computer glitch in September, said the number of flight cancellations represents only a small fraction of the total scheduled flights it plans to operate around the rollover to the new millennium.

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Zimbabwe airline cancels millennium flight

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The state airline said Friday it canceled its only overnight turn-of-the-millennium flight because only one passenger confirmed their booking. Crews had been eager to take charge of the Boeing 767 Dec. 31 overnight flight from Harare to London, said Air Zimbabwe general manager Tich Garabga.

But jitters over Y2K compliance are being blamed for the lack of passenger interest in the flight. Garabga said the concern is unfounded, and that all the airline's planes and computerized systems on the ground were upgraded where necessary and were declared safe by the Boeing Corp. and other manufacturers.

"We are ready to fly into the new millennium," he said in a statement.

Garabga said the airline's regular domestic and regional flights on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 were going ahead as scheduled.

-- Steve (hartsman@ticon.net), December 24, 1999

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"We are ready to fly into the new millennium," he said in a statement.

Yup, but what about landing safely in the new mill.?

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 25, 1999.


Take-offs are pretty easy. Enroute is a piece of cake if the air traffic control systems keep you and the other guy out of each other's way.

But you are so very correct that landing, in bad weather in partiular, is where the real problems can occur. Then you need your plane, air traffic control and all the ground-based landing aids to be operational.

And you can't orbit the holding fix forever waiting for them to fix things.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), December 25, 1999.


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