Malaysia Airlines welcomes new Airbus A380s to fleet

From Threeland Travel Blog's January

Malaysia Airlines will add two new A380 aircraft to its fleet by the in the coming days as the carrier prepares to launch a new double daily A380 services between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

The service will take off from on November 24th 2012.

Malaysia Airlines’ third Airbus A380 arrived at KLIA yesterday from Toulouse and the fourth new aircraft will join the fleet on November 23rd 2012.

Malaysia Airlines will use these two 494-seater aircraft to commence daytime A380 flights from KLIA to London Heathrow starting from 24 November 2012.

Flight MH4 will depart KLIA at 1045 daily to arrive London Heathrow the same day at 16:15.

The return flight MH1 departs London daily at 22:00 and arrives KLIA the next day at 18:20.

This day service will complement Malaysia Airlines’ current daily A380 night service to the UK capital, where MH2 departs KLIA at 11:45 and arrives in London at 05:25 the following day with the return flight MH3 departing London at 10:50am and arriving KLIA at 7:10 the next day.

Malaysia Airlines is the only carrier to offer direct non-stop services between UK and Malaysia.

With the introduction of the double daily A380 services, Malaysia Airlines will cease the 359-seater B747-400 flight operations between London and KLIA while improving weekly seat capacity by 37 per cent in both directions of the route.

The A380 services will offer 6916 seats weekly compared to 5,026 seats offered through the earlier double daily B747-400 operations, allowing more passengers to travel on the latest super jumbo aircraft.

Malaysia Airlines is the eighth operator of this new aircraft and will receive its remaining two A380 is by the first quarter of 2013.

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Daily charter services to Naypyitaw to be opened

Myanma Airways

From Threeland Travel's Blog - August 2012

A Burmese chartered flight service will start three flights per day between Rangoon and Naypyitaw in September, local media reported on Friday.

The private company, First Myanmar Investment (FMI) Air Charter Service, will acquire two aircraft, a 40-seat ATR-42 and 16-seat Beechcraft, from state-run domestic Myanma Airways (MA), Biweekly Eleven News reported this week.

The chartered flights will begin on Sept. 9, the report said.

Meanwhile, local media said two more new private airlines – Golden Myanmar Airlines and Taninthayi Airlines – are planning to provide domestic and international flights from Mandalay. No details about destinations or types of aircraft were provided.

The airlines are now discussing details with civil aviation authorities.

In addition, to the 64-year-old state-operated domestic Myanma Airways (MA), there are five private-run domestic airlines in Burma, namely Air Mandalay, Yangon Airways, Air Bagan, Asian Wings and Air Kanbawza.

Besides Myanmar Airways International (MAI) flying internationally as Myanmar's national flag carrier, there are 13 foreign airlines flying to Rangoon including Air China, China Southern Airline, China Eastern Airlines, Thai Airways International, Indian Airlines, Air Asia, Taiwan region's China airlines, Silk Air, Malaysian Airlines, Bangkok Airways, Jetstar Asia, Thai Air Asia and Vietnam Airlines.

Meanwhile, five new international airlines will start flights to Rangoon in October including Taiwan's EVA Air, South Korea's KAL, Japan's All Nippon Airline (ANA), China's Hong Kong-based Dragon Airline and Qatar Airways.

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