KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines has reiterated that it has a firm order of 25 Boeing 737 aircraft with everything else being optional. The funding for the 25 aircraft is planned on a sale-and-operating leaseback or simple operational lease, the national carrier said yesterday. Malaysia Airlines said it had made 25 firm orders for the 737-MAX8 aircraft and 25 options last year, citing that the aircraft were ordered as pure replacements for existing planes, beginning from 2019. The 48 operating aircraft in the 737-800 fleet start reaching end of lease from early 2019,” it said. The airline added that a recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) would potentially add eight of the widebody Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft to its fleet.

Source: New Strait Times September 21, 2017 12:33 UTC