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Malaysia Airlines Regional To Re-Launch as LCC
MASWings to add Boeing 737-800s next year

MASWings now flies ATR 72-600s throughout the Malaysian states of Sabah and
Sarawak. (Photo: ATR)
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By William Dennis
November 24, 2014

Malaysian regional airline MASWings will re-launch as a low-cost carrier next
year with the addition of Boeing 737-800s under Malaysia Airlines’ restructuring
exercise, according to a senior official at the government’s strategic
investment arm, Khazanah Nasional Berhad (KNB). To be based at Kota Kinabalu
International Airport in the East Malaysian state of Sabah, MASWings’ jet fleet
will initially consist of four aircraft leased from the open market. Plans call
for MASWings to operate as an entity separate from MAS and reincorporate as a
new company at a later date.

According to the KNB official, MASWings’ network will include destinations to
China, within four hours of flying time from Kuching and Kota Kinabalu. KNB
holds a 69.4-percent stake in MAS. “In the current scenario, it will be tough
for MASWings to survive in the market as a community airline with the growing
competition,” he said. The carrier currently competes with AirAsia and Malindo
on several routes within Sabah and Sarawak.

Contacted for comment, a Malaysia Airlines spokesperson declined to offer any
details. “Planning is still under way; as such it is still too early to comment
on anything that is not concrete,” she said in a written statement to AIN.
MASWings will continue operating its ATR 72-500s and -600s and Viking Twin Otter
fleets for domestic and rural services, respectively, after its re-launch as an
LCC. The Malaysian government grants subsidies for flights to the interior of
the two states where air travel is the only mode of transport.

MASWings currently operates 10 ATR 72-500s, four ATR 72-600s and five Viking
Twin Otters.  It expects to take another eight new ATR 72-600s through 2016.

MASWings started operations in October 2007 and now maintains a network of 22
domestic destinations. It also offers flights to Tarakan and Pontianak in
Indonesia and Puetro Princessa in the Philippines.

Separately, plans call for MAS’s reorganization, slated to take place next July,
to result in the independence of fellow regional subsidiary Firefly. Based at
Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, 15 miles outside Kuala Lumpur, it too
will operate as a separate company.




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