With the MH17 disaster turning into something that it shouldn't be, lets take a step away and look at some of the repercussions for people intending to fly on Malaysia Airlines. For those looking at MH17 in the future, the flight number will be retired on Friday, and replace with MH19 as the Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur service.  The new flight pair will operate as: MH16 DEPART … [Read more...]

Malaysia Airlines Flight Number MH17 has been reported lost at 14:15GMT today (Thursday, 17th July).  Flight 17 was operating its normal service between Amsterdam Schipol Airport and Kuala Lumpur International Airport, utilising a Boeing 777-200 (registered as 9M-MRD) when contact was lost at 33,000ft. Up until that time, there were no emergency calls, with the flight … [Read more...]