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2024 Aircraft Deliveries to AirAsia & AirAsia X Groups, MAG, Batik Air Malaysia + other 9M Malaysia carriers

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Some notes for the Year 2024 fleet movement for commercial airlines in Malaysia

  1. Malaysia Airlines is planning to add 12 new aircraft this year. Four A330-900neo and eight B737 MAX8
  2. Firefly is planning to add three B737-800NG from parent company
  3. Batik Air is planning to add 10 aircraft. One B737 MAX8 and nine B737-800NG
  4. AirAsia plans to bring all 191 fleet back in service by Q1, 2024 and resume A321neo delivery this year
  5. AirAsia X's plan to merge all AirAsia Group airlines under it to create a single airline hits a snag as Thai AirAsia X is currently under bankruptcy protection status
  6. MYAirlines is now left without any aircraft after its last aircraft was deregistered from CAAM, need to secure at least two aircraft to restart air operator certificate (AOC) application process. 
  7. MASwings is now in the process of transferring to Sarawak Government, currently on due diligence check status
  8. SKS Airways's new investors remain elusive as plan to introduce Embraer 195-E2 is up in the air

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For factory fresh deliveries, I think Boeing will once again miss the delivery promises - they only delivered 2 of the Max 8s instead of 4.

Airbus has also warned that deliveries may slow down later this year. So I think we will be lucky if we see the above numbers for factory fresh deliveries.

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Batik Air has added one B737-800NG and one B737max 8 over the past few days.

B737-8U3 MSN 41794 / LN 4761 9M-LDG Batik Air Malaysia delivery 6 Apr 2024 ex-PK-BGG with Batik Air Indonesia

 B737-8 MSN 42829 / LN 6430 9M-LRW Batik Air Malaysia delivery 05-07apr24 TUS-ANC-NRT-KUL ex-N133SL with Norwegian Air Sweden AOC

Source: https://www.skyliner-aviation.de/regdb.main?LC=nav4&page=4

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Any info on the ID B738s currently on wet lease to OD? Or they will be transferred to OD and re-registered to 9M?

Flew onboard one of them (PK-LBS) on OD1907, 21/06/2024. Too bad the IFE screens were not activated during the flight.

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2 hours ago, Tamizi Hj Tamby said:

Any info on the ID B738s currently on wet lease to OD? Or they will be transferred to OD and re-registered to 9M?

Flew onboard one of them (PK-LBS) on OD1907, 21/06/2024. Too bad the IFE screens were not activated during the flight.

Batik Air Malaysia is leasing three ID B737-800NGs and one A330-300 from its Indonesian sister company to cover for some AOG aircraft. Currently there are one A330-300, six ATR72-600s, one B737-8, and three B737-800s in AOG mode.

Leased aircraft from ID:

  • PK-LZZ (msn 39821)
  • PK-LBK (msn 39882)
  • PK-LBS (msn 39827)
  • PK-LEL (msn 1820) A330-300

At the same time, they are taking delivery of some aircraft from their mother company, all dual class:

  • msn 38032 - ex-Garuda PK-GFT
  • msn 39865 - ex-Malindo 9M-LNU
  • msn 41605 - ex-Garuda PK-GNP

Batik Air Malaysia or rather Lion Air Group no longer offers IFE since their previous content supplier collapsed, even before the pandemic. Their Indonesia website states there are inflight WIFI available but not sure if it is working or otherwise.

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32 minutes ago, JuliusWong said:

Batik Air Malaysia or rather Lion Air Group no longer offers IFE since their previous content supplier collapsed, even before the pandemic. Their Indonesia website states there are inflight WIFI available but not sure if it is working or otherwise.

I heard they are currently in midst of implementing Wifi IFE based system for the 737s sadly will not be extended to the 330. Though content wise dont expect anything better. Many distributors have hiked the rates for content made worse now with Forex related issue with MYR. Some like Disney and Sony entertainment have hiked nearly 200% with only universal entertainment being on the lower end. There are even more expensive ones like HBO that even established airlines are finding it hard to maintain the contract.

Even MH has trimmed content significantly as a result with very slow rotation.

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At the rate things are going, IFE should probably just have content for kids. Adults could just make use of wifi and stream their content from the web!

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16 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

Batik Air Malaysia or rather Lion Air Group no longer offers IFE since their previous content supplier collapsed, even before the pandemic. Their Indonesia website states there are inflight WIFI available but not sure if it is working or otherwise.

No wonder their IFE Screen is not activated... the crews didn't mention about inflight WIFI during my flight, or i missed it completely.

Thanks for the info above

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1 minute ago, Tamizi Hj Tamby said:

No wonder their IFE Screen is not activated... the crews didn't mention about inflight WIFI during my flight, or i missed it completely.

Thanks for the info above

You are welcome. Not all of them are equipped with them, even those which are equipped don't necessary mean they are switched on. 

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2 minutes ago, JuliusWong said:

You are welcome. Not all of them are equipped with them, even those which are equipped don't necessary mean they are switched on. 

Ah i see; noted with thanks once again. 

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50 minutes ago, Dr Frasier said:

Does anyone know why 9M-MVC has not operated any flights since its acceptance and delivery to KUL?

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

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2 hours ago, Mr.Bandit said:

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

is there something different this this aircraft because they usually enter service quickly?

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

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On 7/2/2024 at 5:19 PM, Dr Frasier said:

Does anyone know why 9M-MVC has not operated any flights since its acceptance and delivery to KUL?

MVC will be flying today to Kota Kinabalu 2x

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On 7/6/2024 at 8:37 AM, Mr.Bandit said:

MVC will be flying today to Kota Kinabalu 2x

Heard MVC hit some snags on the first day of operation. APU failed to start on the 3rd sector. Passengers had to exit the aircraft only to board back the same aircraft from a different gate, causing massive delay on the evening flt to BKI.

Scary considering this is a brand new aircraft. MH and Boeing really need to buck up.

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1 hour ago, Pall said:

Heard MVC hit some snags on the first day of operation. APU failed to start on the 3rd sector. Passengers had to exit the aircraft only to board back the same aircraft from a different gate, causing massive delay on the evening flt to BKI.

Scary considering this is a brand new aircraft. MH and Boeing really need to buck up.

Do aircraft have a warranty period?

 

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1 hour ago, Pall said:

Heard MVC hit some snags on the first day of operation. APU failed to start on the 3rd sector. Passengers had to exit the aircraft only to board back the same aircraft from a different gate, causing massive delay on the evening flt to BKI.

Scary considering this is a brand new aircraft. MH and Boeing really need to buck up.

The delay don't look much different to the usual tardy ops 

mvc.jpeg

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2 hours ago, Robert said:

Do aircraft have a warranty period?

I believe they do - Alaska Airlines has returned the 7M9 that blew out its door plug to Boeing.

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7 hours ago, Robert said:

Do aircraft have a warranty period?

Unfortunately, they don't. Not warranty as per se like how we return a out of order kettle at electrical shop and get a new one, but Boeing will send and station their technical staff at the operator's office for few months upon entry into service for the new fleet type. Once the operation is stabilised, they will withdraw the technical crew and move onto another carriers. At any single time, there will be few crew at different airline helping the airline to trouble shoot any issue.

The big issue now is Boeing is doing via teleconferencing now for some clients, as their crew are stretch beyond their limit no thanks to recent issues with B737max. Boeing simply does not have the resources to deploy while trying to rectifying all the issues at home.

The Alaska Airlines airframe was bought back by Boeing mainly because Boeing needs it to do a thorough investigation what went wrong and how to identify rectify any identified issue in the supply chain process. Also Boeing does not want any liability if Alaska Airlines continues to operate the condemned aircraft. Alaska Airlines also does not want negative publicity in putting a condemned aircraft back into service. The airframe would likely  either be taken apart or becomes Boeing Business Jet for Boeing management. 

MVC is/was a lemon aircraft since production and failed multiple test flight. I am surprised MH actually accepted it. "roll eyes"

Edited by JuliusWong

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On 7/7/2024 at 7:51 PM, JuliusWong said:

Unfortunately, they don't. Not warranty as per se like how we return a out of order kettle at electrical shop and get a new one, but Boeing will send and station their technical staff at the operator's office for few months upon entry into service for the new fleet type. Once the operation is stabilised, they will withdraw the technical crew and move onto another carriers. At any single time, there will be few crew at different airline helping the airline to trouble shoot any issue.

The big issue now is Boeing is doing via teleconferencing now for some clients, as their crew are stretch beyond their limit no thanks to recent issues with B737max. Boeing simply does not have the resources to deploy while trying to rectifying all the issues at home.

The Alaska Airlines airframe was bought back by Boeing mainly because Boeing needs it to do a thorough investigation what went wrong and how to identify rectify any identified issue in the supply chain process. Also Boeing does not want any liability if Alaska Airlines continues to operate the condemned aircraft. Alaska Airlines also does not want negative publicity in putting a condemned aircraft back into service. The airframe would likely  either be taken apart or becomes Boeing Business Jet for Boeing management. 

MVC is/was a lemon aircraft since production and failed multiple test flight. I am surprised MH actually accepted it. "roll eyes"

Thank you

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On 7/7/2024 at 7:51 PM, JuliusWong said:

MVC is/was a lemon aircraft since production and failed multiple test flight. I am surprised MH actually accepted it. "roll eyes"

OMG ?

 

And BTW this just came in; SKS Airways cancels E195-E2 lease plan, according to ch-aviation.

 

Malaysia's SKS Airways cancels E195-E2 lease plans - report

Edited by Tamizi Hj Tamby

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30 minutes ago, Tamizi Hj Tamby said:

OMG ?

And BTW this just came in; SKS Airways cancels E195-E2 lease plan, according to ch-aviation.

Malaysia's SKS Airways cancels E195-E2 lease plans - report

That airline is death on arrival, having no financial muscle at all to take on jet operation. Now they are blaming MAVCOM?? MAHB? for the their own fall. Even the CEO already cabut lari......

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"Industry insiders say the airline had applied to operate 40 flights per day to ensure the economic viability of its operations, but the number of slots granted by airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB)(KL:AIRPORT) — of about four to five daily flights — knocked back that plan."

 

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4 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

That airline is death on arrival, having no financial muscle at all to take on jet operation. Now they are blaming MAVCOM?? MAHB? for the their own fall. Even the CEO already cabut lari......

 

Also due to the fact that now MOT allows any type of narrowbody jet to operate out of SZB. Previously only limited to regional jet type below 150pax capacity when the SZB jet ops was mooted back in early 2023. Hence SKS thought they would be able to monopolize SZB jet ops with their E-jets.

At that time, OD, FY, AK and other interested parties were not keen to invest in a new type. Not until MOT lifted that restriction lately allowing B737/A320 to operate.

Whatever economic advantage the E-jets or equivalent (possibly A220) had got completely wiped out. More established players like AK, FY and OD literally don't need to invest anything to operate out of SZB as early as tomorrow. While SKS had to start from scratch with a higher cost base. 

With all this headwind, no sane corporation would want to invest in SKS.

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