Was searching flights from Bangkok (BKK) to Sydney (SYD), Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Sydney, Singapore (SIN) to Sydney etc and came across Malaysia Airlines Phuket (HKT) to Sydney Via Kuala Lumpur One Way Business Class $640 AUD. Likely part of current up to 40% off airfares to Asia sale. Dates Now until 31st March 2017. May be useful for some who will take the longer route to fly business class and I know some of you will not be keen to fly the airline though now. It's $967 return HKT to SYD but not SYD to HKT. Appears to be about $270 cheaper than BKK-KUL-SYD and $500 cheaper than KUL-SYD for the late October trip I booked. The January one way date I booked was only slightly more than economy with Air Asia, Scoot etc and Malaysia's own economy was the same price as their Business! Reasonable level of QF status credits and points available.
KUL to SYD leg should now be on the A330 fully flat beds according to AUSBT; http://www.ausbt.com.au/malaysia-airlines-new-airbus-a330-bu…
Malaysian airlines overview; http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/au/en/experience/business-cl…
I just booked return flights KUL - PER on 23 Jan 17 for 6 people for under $1,000 flying Malaysia Air.
Very happy - so long as we don't end up disappeared somewhere in the Indian Ocean.