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Next to spotting at Singapore, I also decided to take a cheap AirAsia flight to Kuala Lumpur for some spotting there.
As the (better) spotting locations are a bit further from the terminals, I rented a car for 2 days. At KUL, they created an observation deck next near the treshold of runway 32L, which is one of the main landing runways. Light gets good from about 11-12:00 and better during the rest of the afternoon. From the deck you have a nice view on the landing aircraft. But be prepared for the heat and humidity and bring enough water.
KLIA is quite far from the city itself and isn't as busy as Singapore. It has two terminals and 3 runways. Basically, it are two airports. KLIA 1 is using runways runways 14L-32R and 14R-32L, while KLIA 2 has runway 15-33. Normally, it operates in a Northern-direction, meaning departing and landing on the 32s and 33.
KLIA 2 is the main base for AirAsia and around 75% of all these flights will use 15-33. You do get some of them at 14R-32L but not so much. So, if you want to spot those, which will get a bit boring after a while, you need to find a spot at 15-33.
I decided to stay at the 14R-32L runway for its variety of airlines and managed to capture the following.
1. Photographed while taxiing to the gate is this AirAsia A321P2F 9M-TLP, which it operates for Teleport:
A321F-AAS-9MTLP-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr2. Nice at KUL is some Indonesian traffic, like this Super Air Jet A320 PK-SAJ:
A320-SAJ-PKSAJ-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr3. Citilink A320neo PK-GTA:
A320N-CTL-PKGTA-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr4. And TransNusa, here with A320 PK-TLD:
A320-NUS-PKTLD-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr5. KUL is, of course the home of Malaysia Airlines, so you can spot its aircraft like the new B737MAX8:
B738M-MAS-9MMVA-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr6. Or this nice retro B737-800 9M-MLV:
B738-MAS-9MMLV-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr7. Batik Air Malaysia is also calling KUL is home, flying with its fleet of B737s and A330s, like this 9M-LFD:
A333-BTK-9MLFD-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr8. Straight across the observation platform are the maintenance hangar and in front of the Malaysia Airlines one are two white B777s, which are two former Malaysia Airlines B777-200ERs. This one is 9M-MRA:
B772-MAS-9MMRA-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr9. Raya Airways is officially based at the other airport of Kuala Lumpur, Subang, but can be seen at KUL as well. Seen here is this B767-200F 9M-RXD:
B762F-RYA-9MRXD-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr10. Another nice Malaysian cargo airline is Kargo Express, which operates the B737, like this B737-800BCF 9M-KXD:
B738F-KGX-9MKXD-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr11. Happy to catch an Airbus A330-300 of AirAsiaX on the 32L:
A333-ASX-9MXXV-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr12. As for more foreign traffic, you can also spot some nice visitors, like Starlux with the A321neo:
A321N-SLX-B58204-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr13. Shanghai Airlines with the B787-9 and B737MAX:
B738M-SHA-B208M-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr14. AirArabia A321neo from the UAE:
A321N-ARB-A6ATE-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr15. SalamAir A321neo:
A321N-SAL-A4OOXA-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr16. And US-Bangla with its B737-800s:
B738-USB-S2AJG-KUL17apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr17. On the 19th, I flew back to Singapore and I arrived a bit earlier to some AirAsia spotting:
A320-AAS-9MAJE-KUL19apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr18.
A320-AAS-HSBBR-KUL19apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr19. This interesting livery is a left-over from defunct MyAirline:
A320-AAS-9MDAB-KUL19apr24 by Anton Homma, on Flickr20. And ending this set with this nice A321neo 9M-VAA:
A321N-AAS-9MVAA-KUL19apr24 by Anton Homma, on FlickrHope you liked them! As said, you can see all my albums at https://flickr.com/photos/lifelinerone/ ... 0316411107
Next, and final, topic will be Subang. See you there!
Cheers!
