Mr.Bandit

I believed they are shortage of aircraft due to some aircraft has been allocated to cater for Hajj return flight. MTG, MTH, MTI is currently undergoing schedule heavy maintenance. Yes, it is messy right now with all the flip flop rescheduling

Yes, the issue is from 1 April 2021. The B737 MAX order was made and finalized in 2016 and MAB is expecting the first delivery by beginning of 2019. Due to Covid-19 and grounding of MAX all over the world, the delivery you see nowadays is as what had been planned years ago. The airframe is there grounding for a long time. This is why these early airframes are problematic since the operation days. From fifth B737-8 (9M-MVE) we can see the current changes, similar with latest livery as seen in A330-900Neo. Slanted tail logo, italic ‘’malaysiaairlines”, Malaysia wording, what under the belly and so on.

The initial release of ‘’Malaysia’ wording in the time of MAX delivery is a just recommendation. But now it become a mandatory. MAG will have to fulfill these by latest this October to comply this requirement for all of its fleet. No stickers allowed but a repainting which will take time as the hangar slot is somehow full most of time. Minimum of 3 days ground time is require for every repaint work inclusive of curing time for paint for a single aircraft.

MVC will be flying today to Kota Kinabalu 2x

Nothing unusual compared to others. They put a buffer period for the approval process. Once approved, they can start the first commercial flight ASAP.

Waiting for documentation to be approved by CAAM. Should be start flying by next week.

MH applied for ATR to BNE with 727 seats, plan for resumption in Sept 2024. Other ATR also available as per link. ; https://www.mavcom.my/en/2024/06/09/air-traffic-rights-bulletin-may-2024/

If you look closely, you can see the tail logo is positioned differently from current A333. The logo is positioned more to upper section causing the logo to be shrink to smaller in size. Rudder hoist point to put as a reference.

Actually it’s C check, to specific 8C check package. This package will gradually implementing gradually until -MTO, currently with -MTG. Airline usually return aircraft to lessor before reaching D check as it’s highly cost unless the aircraft is company owned.

I don’t sure about trial flights after delivery. But MAH supposely to arrive and later will proceed with C check + bridging. MAB decide to do check in-house as they had capability to do so plus saving cost. It’s common check when the aircraft is going to transfer from lessor to operator. This check plan usually takes about 22-30 calendar days. The earliest it can enter to service in mid Dec.

Yes, under 8C maintenance check. Should be serviceable to fly by next week.

The first one coming from ex-SAS aircraft (SE-RSB) while second one remains unknown, most probably come from ex-SAS too. The cabin config though I didn’t get much info on this matter.

1 additional A359 to be register as 9M-MAH is expected to receive by this November 2023 while another one is still under negotiation process with lessor with expectation to deliver by March 2024. Yet, Don’t get suprised that the first A339 destination would be Melbourne.

Not yet but will flying to same destination later, under registration as VP-BYW

One of Indonesia Airasia X A330 PK-XRA is currently at MAB hangar, undergoes maintenance and will be transfer to AAX after check is complete.