Airbus will provide Malaysia Airlines with 17 A330 family aircraft, confirming an earlier Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The MOU includes 15 A330-300 passenger aircraft, along with two A330-200F freighter aircraft for the carrier’s subsidiary MASkargo.
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Forming the core of the carrier’s medium haul passenger fleet, the A330-300 will fly 283 passengers on destinations across the Asia Pacific and to the Middle East.
MASkargo will fly the freighter version on sectors of up to 3,200nm with payloads of about 70 tonnes.
Malaysia Airlines managing director and CEO Azmil Zahruddin said that the aircraft’s ability to add capacity will enable the company to offer more frequencies to key destinations and to add new destinations.
The A330s will complement other aircraft orders under Malaysia Airlines’ fleet modernisation plan.
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By GlobalDataThe A330-300 will enter into service with the airlines in the first half of 2011 followed by the first freighter joining MASkargo later in the year.
