New Malaysia Airlines an international full-fledged service carrier (Update)

SEPANG: The new Malaysia Airlines Bhd group (MAS Bhd) will be an international full-fledged service carrier and not a regional carrier. 

At a briefing on Monday, chief executive officer Christoph Mueller said MAS Bhd would also retain all the domestic routes.

MAS Bhd has recorded one million flight tickets sold so far.

Under the three-phase turnaround, the first will be from 2015 to 2017/2018 with growth expected to start in 2017/2018. 

He expects MAS Bhd to break even in 2018.

He added there would not be any business partnership for the next six months.

The new carrier will be grouped into three divisions – operations, support functions, and learning and development -- with a total of 12 subsidiaries.

Under the operations division there would be the passenger airline, MAS Wings, Firefly and MAS Kargo.

Under the support functions division, there will be the maintenance, repair and overhaul, ground handling, MAS Holiday and Enrich.

As for the learning and development division, there will be the Malaysia Airlines Academy, engineering training, flight training and operations training.