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The Qantas 747 that overran the runway at Bangkok became known by staff as the “golf buggy” because of the golf course where the aircraft ended up!

Cant believe an airline got so scared of josh cahill that they shut down

If the executives are guilty of money laundering, they deserve the harshest sentencing. All of the employees trying to keep the airline afloat while the executives were probably living a life of luxury. I feel sorry for those that have lost due to other people's greed 😢 Good post, thank you.

The number 13 is an unlucky number in a lot of cultures, so some airlines don't include the row 13 on their planes.

The golf course at Don Mueang Airport is owned by the Royal Thai Air Force. It can be a little tricky to get there (taxis are not allowed inside the compound), and photography is not allowed. But it is a very unique experience playing there!

MyAirline was a slight upgrade from AirAsia & with some of their deals a lower price tag. KL to Penang round trip for 45rm (around $9-10 USD) was a great find for us

As a Malaysian its pretty sad that they went bust, we had hope that they’d challenge Airasia’s monopoly in the low cost market. We’re tired of Airasia milking our wallets in the name of “low cost”

In the early 00's, I flew a low cost airline on Peru named Aero Continente. The fares were cheap, the service was great, and they were the last operators of 727's on domestic flights. Aero Continente also abruptly ceased operatings when their owner was arrested for money laundering and drup trafficking.

Great that you managed to review them! We all started getting suspicious when they started cutting even obviously full routes. Then the founder got arrested. Actually he had already been investigated for various money laundering activities several years ago so it was a surprise he even got to start the airline in the first place

Very surprised that it's row 13 that's missing. Usually in Malaysia, if a row or a floor is missing, it's 4 (and often 14, 24, etc). My apartment when I am in Malaysia is on floor 3A, which is between floors 3 and 5.

Wow it's incredible how the owner got interviewed in Airliner World and now he's in jail

It was never a good idea for a second LCC in Malaysia. Airasia has 200 planes and MYairline has 4-9. It wanted to be an Ultra LCC, cheaper than Airasia. Airasia is looking for a USD400 million loan now; its restructuring plan has also been rejected by the authority 2-3 times. What chance did MYairline even have? 2 main factors that did it in: ever appreciating USD and the resulting interest rate.

I really hope they'll be painting the sky red again. It's high time, AirAsia needs to be kept in check. By the way, you are staying at the world's 2nd biggest shopping mall🎉😊

I like the old Don Muang airport. I actually liked it more than the new airport. Used to fly there from LHR. It was old but had a certain charm about it.

FYI Josh, Malaysia's biggest aviation failure is an airline call Rayani Air which only lasted 5 months.

Hi! Josh Cahill. Thank You for sharing this wonderful video.

Nice vid Josh! I was at Don Muang in 2000 and we were stunned too when we saw the golf course. It was quite busy there at the time, amidst all the flying. Don Muang was very active back then, with lots of both civilian and military aircraft seen 'in action'. And Thailand is a wonderful country.

Please do Kenya airways flight from Guangzhou China to Nairobi or air Tanzania flight from Mumbai to dar salaam 737max9

Great video Josh!!!! 2 thumbs up my friend!!!!

Josh - Your videos are 'top notch'! and so professionally designed. Bravo to you BIG TIME! I recently returned from Papeete Tahiti and flew Air Tahiti Nui. Perhaps you should consider trying it out sometime and add it to your repertoire of air travel ... quite a beautiful experience. Best to you and keep those videos coming. It's great entertainment! - Paul from Boston Massachusetts

I just wanna thank you Josh for all the effort you put into this video just for us keep up the good work my friend! :) also I don't think Asia would need a new budget airline because they already have plenty of options not the mention some pretty cheap one.

I think the golf course is owned by the Royal Thai Air Force.

2:48 love the emergency slide on the tree 😂😂

My son has end stage organ faiular.He loves watching you programs while he is in hospital.He allways asks when are you and Mr Philip s going to put out your next videos.Thank u both so much as he says he's going to fly in the sky with you.

I sat in row 13 on two legs of my flight to Stockholm this week on Delta Airlines, but living in China, my apartment building did not have a 4th or 14th floor.

The owner and family has been arrested due to alleged money laundering activities

No Row 13! In 1988 I flew Air Afrique New York Dakar and that is my absolute first memory of an aircraft without a Row 13!

Sad to hear about the collapse of MYAirline :( Thought they were doing well before they suddenly close :/

We need more low cost airlines, more competitors better service

The founder was charged under the Anti Money Laundering/ Counter Terrorism Financing Act. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s accused of both, likely just the money laundering part. Makes it sound like there were arms being smuggled in the cargo hold

That's really awesome, thanks for sharing another amazing adventure!

Noel Philips must be unhappy that he missed doing this loo review.

Malaysia have now 2 defuct airline, prior was called ‘Rayani Air’. Apparently I never had a chance to fly with that carrier.

Idk why some airlines remove row 13 because of it symbolizing bad luck and some don‘t. Personally, I don‘t count if I sit in row 13 or 12 because if something happens, sitting in row 12 instead wont make it better. Eurowings also has no row 13. Just some weird beliefs ig

I am going to Kuwait, Dhaka, SIN, Indonesis, East Timor, Malaysia, Brunei and Thailand i January. We are flying Pegasus, Jazeera, Biman, Jetstar, Batik Air, Citylink, Scoot, Royal Brunei, Firefly and Norse Atlantic, during our wacation. Luckily i hadn't ordered anny tickets with MYair, when they went bancrupt. If Asia need one more LCC? East Timor is way to ekspensive, and needs one more route to SIN. But the hotels there are to few and expensive as well. Also Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea might need one more low cost carrier. Also the Filipines might need one more LCC to BKK and SIN. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore have enough LCC. Just check out the nubers og flightw between Jakarta and Bali each day, it is a lot.

2;00...I do like the name Myairline, it is such a cool name. I also like the name you mentioned "ur' airline but not written yourairline but as "urairline" which also sounds cool to me 😎.

13 is known to be an unlucky number, some hospitals don't have a floor 13 either. It's not too uncommon

I hope that it will be nice vid as always. Already from start I really appreciate the Czech football t-shirt, lovely.

The 13th floor of buildings are also replaced with their next number as well in many Asian countries. No point having something that potentially makes the people/culture uncomfortable. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.

Non-reclining seats on a short-haul flight? Good. Interesting video.

great vid Josh. Personally ive experienced MYAirline as well and have found their services better than AA. Am sad what happened to MYAirline, no fault of the staff who are just trying to earn an honest days wage. I do hope MYAirline is bought over by a new investor. Cheerio.

In many cultures, the number 13 is associated with bad luck, which is why many airlines prefer to avoid igniting the superstitions of their customers and have opted to remove the number from there seating plans. Irrational fear of the number 13 is known as triscaidekaphobia.

Any idea what the emergency the departing Air Asia flight was about? I flew with Air Asia from Bangkok to Luang Prabang on Wednesday of this week, and the flight was delayed by an hour due to them having to find a "replacement aircraft". Our aircraft came in from Hat Yai, so I'm wondering if it was the flight to Hat Yai that had the issue. It does, of course, depend on when this was filmed!

thats crazy, i flew this airline in july twice...

The airplane exterior colors and design looked good and the inside looked nice. But the best think to see was Josh's hair back to being one color. 🙂👍

Tbh, tiktok videos of a dancing crew would be a red flag for me. I would think:" Nah, cba to deal with such people"

Cool, you have the Czech soccer jersey! :)

Awesome vid!!! Keep up the great work man!👍

yes, row 13 is missing due to superstitious reasons. In Europe more than in Asia-if its a former Air Berlin plane-that would explain it.

In China, the unlucky number is 4, so you probably won't find row 4 on many airlines, or 4th floors in buildings. I've never been to China, but I read about this. A friend of mine also flew MyAirline roundtrip between KL and Bangkok. I hear the airline will be resuming service soon after some reorganization. There are definitely way too many low cost carriers in Asia, but MyAirline seems to have a decent business model. Time will tell.

Damn, it’s sad what has happened to this airline. I love its livery and its cabin. I live in Malaysia and I used to often see their planes.

The thing with the number 13 comes from the defeat of the TEMPLE ORDER a thousend years ago, no? Knights defeated by the catholic church. Was a Friday. 13th of October (I think).

Kuala Lumpur immigration took me more than 2 hours a couple weeks ago. Lucky guy with 3 minutes haha!

Don Meuang is owned by the Thai military. It is their golf course. Many hotels have no 13th floor.

If i remember rightly you have to cross the taxi way between the 2 runways when playing golf there to reach the other side of the golf course. Flown many times into Don Mueang with Eva Air and Thai before the new airport Suvarnabhumi opened.

Once owners arrested, I am not sure that it is worth to start again - at least due to reputation 😢

Many cultures consider number 4 and number 13 as unlucky numbers. Similiar to how Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. In some places at Asia, having those kinds of numbers is another way of attracting bad luck energy.

Love your historical tidbits. Some criticism from a fan-- improve the volume between scenes and consider upgrading cameras might go a long way. Keep up the good work, and always nice seeing you have fun!

Seasoned travellers will eventually come across 'triskaidekaphobia', which is why some planes, ships and hotels will not have number 13 seats, rooms or decks. It's skipped. It is superstitious.

Landed DMK in March 1993 on a QF 744 (VH-OJE MAN/ LHR/ DMK) and noticed the golf course. DMK being the main airport back then and lots of 747's.

Myairlines really needs to duvest itself of the current owners and reinvent itself to survive as always it is another aspect of flying that affects the majority of flyers. Hope you did not rough it too much this time. Blue skies my friend.

Sarawak government boutique airline should be up and running next year, hopefully will not have such issue

Love the Qantas Factoid!

Hi Josh - what happened to the Myanmar trip report?

Another amazing video Josh

1990 first landing at Don Muang with KLM and first thing I saw was… the golf course 😅😅😅

Awesome video as always.

Nice Czech national football team t-shirt!👍As a Czech i appreciate that.😉

i lke the video very much Josh Keep it up

My apartment block has floors 12 12a 14....22 22a 24 etc. It doesn't help that the buttons in the lift appear to have been put in a random order.

Employees have not been paid for their August, September salary and their mandatory retirement contributions that is suppose to be allocated by the employer have not been paid for nearly 5 months. This is an airline supposedly setup with the idea that the main competitor Airasia would crack open belly up and downsize its operations. Unfortunately Myairline is backed by an unreliable and fraudulent owner plus the already over capacity domestic market of Malaysia means they have to consistently fund the airline for years before there is any signs of break even plus airasia is not showing any signs of slowing down.

Im so sad that im a person living in Malaysia but will never fly this airline :(

a lot of tall buildings don't have a 13th floor, either.

that golf course was already there when i landed in BKK in 1984

Just flown from EMA where there was no Gate 13

I feel for all the employees that they let down in the name of greed. The plane was really clean. I imagine its hard to be upbeat when you are not sure of yor job. Another budget airline would enhance competition for customers and maybe better perks to fly with them. Be safe in your travels. The world is getting more crazy. Until next Saturday when I see your next video..take care.

I have been as a passenger for MYAirlines (Suvarnabumi - KLIA) their service quite good compare with AA… For me the budget airlines need competitor since nowadays as we need to get the best service eventhough its only budget…

European airlines tend to avoid row 13 due to superstition, in the same way (at least some) European hotels avoid room 13. In parts of Asia (Japan, China, and others?), it is the number 4 which is avoided, as at least one reading of the number four is quite similar to the word for death.

In Thailand and some asian country believed that no.13 is very unlucky number… in Donmuang airport, there is no gate no.13 and terminal door no. 13 also 😅

I think Asian airlines don’t feature Row 13 since it is considered an unlucky number. So it’s purely superstitious

There used to be a row 13, but it disappeared into a time warp.

It’s too late now some of the myairline a320s already have the airasia logo on them😢

Fantastic Josh Cahill thanks a million sir, you are doing a great job, please come to Nigeria once again,we love you so much sir.

Row number 13 is resereved for the invisible ones...

Not only in flights, in most of places, u will not find number 13, be it be flat, residential floors (even in 5 star hotels or commercial building), house, street etc... its just a superstitions in most culture... not only in Asian countries. Friday, the 13th

oh I miss AirBerlin .... :o (because you mentioned it)

Dear Josh, please be careful with your next flight on the next day by the video made with Malaysia Airlines….We hope so the plane will not disappear as you too! 😂

The crashed Quantas plane that you show on the video, was actually sitting in the middle of the gold course on that photo 🙂.

Row 13 is also missing in some western airlines as they've received complaints from customers

Many skyscrapers in the United States do something similar to MyAirlines... omit floor 13 (as if bad luck is that dumb).

That a319 model that you bought stole my attention 😄.Which livery is it Josh?

Ryanair also doesn't have a row 13 on their planes, just as some cruise ships doesn't have a deck 13. So probably superstition 😉

For Malaysia the sky already overcrowded, no more budget airline please😬. Therefore existing budget airline need to consolidate its regional route and tie up with main-stream airline to provide feeder service the latter not serving. With that budget airline has the real chance of survival in the long run 😑.

Our condo lift has no 13 too

Qantas will be thankful for mentioning that minor incident😊

Yes I knew there was a golf course between the runways at the old airport 😂😂. I noticed it about thirty years ago when I was in my early teens. We landed in a BA 747-400 from LHR, it was very rainy but I was thinking, am I seeing correctly! Is that a golf course on the airport?

I think Malaysia can support 2budget carriers. 13is unlucky number and many will not book that row

Yes Asia needs more low budget airlines.

The Thai check-in agent was so nice. Thai culture is very similar to Indian. The way they greet with palms joined together. BTW Josh you're looking Hot :)