Malaysia Airlines

Malaysia Airlines Berhad
IATA code :	MH
ICAO code :	MAS
Call sign :	MALAYSIAN
Founding:	1971 (as Malaysian Airline System)
Seat:	Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
Turnstile :	Kuala Lumpur
Home airport :	Kuala Lumpur
Company form:	Berhad
IATA prefix code :	232
Management:	Peter Bellew ( CEO )
Number of employees:	19,000 (2014)
Sales:	13.6 billion RM (3.32 billion € ) (2010)
Balance sheet total:	12.4 billion RM (3.04 billion €) (2010)
Passenger volume:	13.5 million (2018)
Alliance :	Oneworld Alliance
Frequent Flyer Program :	Enrich
Fleet size:	84 (+ 27 orders)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.malaysiaairlines.com

Malaysia Airlines Berhad (until 1987 Malaysian Airline System ; sometimes incorrectly also Malaysian Airlines ) is the national airline of Malaysia , based in Kuala Lumpur and based at Kuala Lumpur Airport . It is a member of the oneworld aviation alliance .

history

Origin companies

De Havilland Comet of the predecessor company MSA

The airline's origins lie in Malayan Airways, founded by Mansfield & Co. in 1947 . In 1948, the British BOAC took a share in the company. In cooperation with Qantas , the international route network was expanded in the 1950s. In November 1963 the company was named Malaysia Airlines . A month later, she put her first jet aircraft into service, the De Havilland DH.106 Comet . After Singapore gained independence, it was renamed Malaysia Singapore Airlines (MSA) in December 1966 . From 1968 onwards, MSA replaced its Comets with Boeing 707 aircraft .

Established as a Malaysian Airline System

Leased Boeing 707-400 from MAS in 1974

In 1971 Malaysia Singapore Airlines was split up, from which the two airlines Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airline System (MAS) emerged in the same year . Both companies continued to cooperate with each other until the cooperation ended on October 1, 1972. Initially, MAS only flew to destinations within Malaysia with nine Fokker F-27s and three Britten-Norman Islanders , while Singapore Airlines carried out the long-haul flights. From 1974 onwards MAS used a Boeing 707-400 leased by British Airways for the first time on weekly flights to London . A short time later, additional destinations followed in Amsterdam , Zurich and Frankfurt . On August 2, 1976, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 was the first wide-body aircraft to be delivered to the company. Six Airbus A300s expanded the fleet from 1979; the first two Boeing 747-200s followed in 1982, with which destinations in the USA were approached for the first time .

In 1987 the company was given its current name; the abbreviation MAS remained and the appearance was renewed.

In 1992 Munich was added to the scheduled flight schedule as a new destination and MAS continued to expand. In 1994 the first Airbus A330s and also the first McDonnell Douglas MD-11s arrived to replace the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. In 1997, Malaysia Airlines received its first Boeing 777 , which replaced the Boeing 747-200 and DC-10 on long-haul flights.

Like other airlines in the Asian region, Malaysia Airlines was severely weakened by the Asian crisis at the end of the 1990s; routes were closed, aircraft were sold or returned to lessors. It was not until the beginning of 2000 that the airline caught up and continued its expansion course. In 2005, the airline was awarded the “5-Star Airline Award” by Skytrax and the economy class was rated as the best in the world.

The airline is a member of IATA and carries around 14 million passengers annually. It is listed in the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI and has several subsidiaries such as MAS Aerotechnologies , MASkargo Logistics , Firefly or Malaysian Aerospace Engineering . The state of Malaysia has a 70 percent stake in the company through a sovereign wealth fund.

On August 9, 2011, a framework agreement was to cooperate with the Tune Air Sdn Berhad closed, which owns the low cost airlines AirAsia and AirAsia X 's. These are currently the main competitor of Malaysia Airlines. According to this, the aircraft purchasing, maintenance and training departments of MAS and the AirAsia airlines are to cooperate more closely with one another in order to achieve cost savings.

The company has been making losses since 2011. In 2013 this amounted to 360 million euros .

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in March 2014 cost the company the trust of numerous customers. The booking numbers collapsed dramatically and the share price fell to 8 cents. The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in July 2014 threatens the company with further financial losses. Around 6,000 jobs were cut as part of a restructuring program. The remaining aircraft of the Boeing 777 model affected by both accidents were phased out and resold by the end of 2016. Due to the poor annual result in 2014, Malaysia Airlines wanted to sell or lease all cargo planes and the six Airbus A380-800s . The latter were to be sold by June 2018 and replaced by six A350-900s . The sale failed, so the conversion of the A380 for pilgrimage flights is planned (as of March 2018).

On June 1, 2015, all 20,000 employees were terminated by the company. Of these, 14,000 were offered a new position at the successor company of Malaysia Airlines, for which a new name was sought. The Malaysia Airlines brand is no longer to be used. Since September 1, 2015, the company has been operating as Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) .

On June 2, 2016, Malaysia Airlines appointed the German company Aviareps as a sales representative in 13 European markets. The Munich-based company is thus responsible for all sales and marketing activities of Malaysia Airlines. From seven German airports, passengers can use British Airways flights to Malaysia Airlines' only European destination at London Heathrow Airport . In addition, there is a codeshare agreement with Emirates with an expanded range of flights via the hub in Dubai .

Destinations

Business Class on board a former Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER

Malaysia Airlines' main hub is located at Kuala Lumpur Airport . Other hubs are in Penang , Kuching and Kota Kinabalu . It mainly flies to destinations in Asia as well as the Middle East and Australasia . The only goal in Europe is London served.

Code sharing

Malaysia Airlines has codeshare agreements with the following airlines ( oneworld members are marked with * ):

Air Mauritius American Airlines * Bangkok Airways Cathay Dragon * Cathay Pacific *

Emirates Etihad Airways Ethiopian Airlines Finnair * Firefly *

Garuda Indonesia Japan Airlines * KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Korean Air

Myanmar Airways International Philippine Airlines Qatar Airways * Royal Jordanian * Silk Air

Singapore Airlines SriLankan Airlines * Thai Airways Uzbekistan Airways Xiamen Airlines

fleet

Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800

Airbus A330-300 of Malaysia Airlines

As of March 2020, the Malaysia Airlines fleet consists of 84 aircraft with an average age of 7.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Business / Eco )
Airbus A330-200F	3		Cargo aircraft of MASkargo	-
Airbus A330-200	6th			220 (- / 42/178)
Airbus A330-300	15th		2 in oneworld special livery	290 (- / 27/263)
Airbus A330-900neo		2		- open -
Airbus A350-900	6th		leased from ALC ; Delivery from November 29, 2017	286 (4/35/247)
Airbus A380-800	6th		exclusively in charter air traffic	494 (8/66/420)
Boeing 737-800	48		with winglets fitted	160 (- / 16/144)
Boeing 737 MAX 8		25th	+ 25 options for MAX 8 and MAX 9; Delivery probably from 2019	- open -
total	84	27

Restriction for the Airbus 380-800: Infants up to two years of age are not permitted on board the First Class of the Airbus A380-800. This also applies to all children under the age of twelve in the entire upper deck.

Incidents

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, which went missing on March 8, 2014

The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, which was shot down on July 17, 2014

• On December 4, 1977, a hijacked Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 ( aircraft registration 9M-MBD ) exploded over Tanjung Kupang, Johor (Malaysia). All 100 passengers and crew were killed (see also Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 ) .

• On September 15, 1995, a Malaysia Airlines (9M-MGH) Fokker 50 crashed into an inhabited area during a failed go- around at Tawau Airport ( Borneo , Malaysia ). The go-around had been initiated because the machine had previously only been touched down 500 meters from the runway end. Of the 53 people on board, 34 died (see also Malaysia Airlines flight 2133 ) .

• On March 15, 2000, an Airbus A330-300 operated by Malaysia Airlines (9M-MKB) suffered a total loss because oxalyl chloride escaped from incorrectly declared chemical canisters . After the flight from Beijing Airport to Kuala Lumpur, a pungent odor was found while the cargo was being reloaded, and five airport employees were poisoned. Because the substance attacks metals, the aircraft was shut down for safety reasons. The Chinese freight company had to pay $ 65 million in damages.

• On March 8, 2014, contact with a Boeing 777-200ER with the aircraft registration number 9M-MRO was lost. She was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing . There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Despite the most extensive search in the history of aviation , the flight recorder has not yet been found. Only at the end of July 2015 was a part of the wreck discovered on the beach in Réunion that could be assigned to the missing aircraft (see also Malaysia Airlines flight 370 ) .

• On July 17, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER with the registration number 9M-MRD was shot down by a Russian surface-to-air missile on the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur near Tores in eastern Ukraine . All 298 occupants (283 passengers and 15 crew members) were killed (see also Malaysia Airlines flight 17 ) .

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Malaysia Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Malaysia Airlines website (including English, Korean, Chinese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} aerotelegraph.com - bulk order: Malaysia Airlines wants up to 50 Boeing 737 Max , accessed on July 28, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Malaysia Airlines Annual Report 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Exchange rate as of December 31, 2010
4. ^ Flight International, May 18, 1972
5. ↑ chartnexus.com - About Malaysia Airlines , accessed on September 3, 2014.
6. ↑ malaysiaairlines.com - Group Structure & Directory , accessed April 2, 2010
7. ↑ Der Spiegel - After the MH17 crash: Malaysia Airlines is about to end, July 19, 2014
8. ↑ ^{a b} Der Spiegel - After the MH17 crash: Malaysia Airlines fears about the future, accessed on July 21, 2014
9. ↑ finanzen.net - Troubled Malaysia Airlines is shedding around 6000 jobs , accessed on September 1, 2014.
10. ↑ https://www.planespotters.net/production-list/search?fleet=Malaysia-Airlines&manufacturer=Boeing&type=777&fleetStatus=historic
11. ↑ leehamnews.com - Malaysia Airlines fleet restructuring (English) April 30, 2015
12. ↑ aero.de - Malaysia Airlines will dissolve Airbus A380 fleet by 2018
13. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Long-haul plans: Malaysia Airlines keeps their Airbus A380, February 15, 2016
14. ↑ ^{a b} Malaysia Airlines discontinues A380 scheduled flights. AeroTelegraph, March 12, 2018.
15. ↑ t-online.de - Malaysia Airlines announces all employees: 20,000 affected, June 1, 2015
16. ↑ airliners.de - Malaysia Airlines changes its name, June 3, 2015
17. ↑ malaysiaairlines.com - New Beginnings at Malaysia Airlines Berhad, September 1, 2015 (English), accessed October 15, 2015.
18. ↑ airliners.de - Aviareps takes over sales and marketing for Malaysia Airlines Berhad , accessed on June 9, 2016.
19. ↑ malaysiaairlines.com - Discover , accessed August 4, 2016
20. ↑ malaysiaairlines.com - Partner Airlines (English), accessed on August 4, 2016
21. ^ Malaysia Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 24, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Airbus - Orders & deliveries (English), accessed on September 10, 2016
23. ↑ Boeing - Orders & Deliveries , accessed on October 13, 2018
24. ↑ Sebastian Steinke / Ulrike Ebner: Civil aircraft orders in 2017.flugrevue.de, accessed on September 13, 2017 . 
25. ↑ malaysiaairlines.com - Seat Plans (English)
26. ↑ Malaysia Airlines has the first Airbus A350 , accessed on December 16, 2017
27. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - A380 from Malaysia: Child ban April 5, 2012
28. ^ Accident report Fokker 50 9M-MGH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 6, 2019.
29. ↑ Accident report A330-300 9M-MKB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 29, 2019.
30. ↑ Reuters - Malaysia Airlines machine crashes into the sea, accessed on March 8, 2014
31. ^ Search for MH370 to be most expensive in aviation history. Reuters , April 7, 2014, accessed April 7, 2014 .