Malaysia Airways’ inaugural A330neo service has arrived in Adelaide because the service expands its Brisbane flight schedule.
Flight MH139 was the primary Adelaide service to make use of Malaysia’s 297-seat A330-900s, with 9M-MNK touching down in Adelaide at 7am native time on Thursday morning. The flight was 89 per cent full in keeping with Malaysia Airways figures, and follows Malaysia going each day to Adelaide in February.
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“We’re excited that Malaysia Airways has chosen to fly its brand-new Airbus A330-900neo plane on this route. The mixture of the gorgeous new enterprise class cabin and the award-winning financial system class cabin provides premium consolation and an improved dwelling house,” stated Adelaide Airport govt normal supervisor of individuals, tradition and buyer, Dermot O’Neill.
“Immediately’s new plane launch reinforces Malaysia Airways’ longstanding dedication to our market. It’s a beautiful end result for South Australians travelling to Malaysia and past, and to the abroad guests travelling to Adelaide utilizing the airline’s intensive route community.
“Along with enterprise and leisure site visitors, we all know this service is standard with worldwide college students flying from Malaysia and additional afield together with India, China, Nepal and Vietnam. Being a wide-body jet, it additionally creates better export alternatives for our native producers.”
Bryan Foong, CEO of airline enterprise at Malaysia Aviation Group, stated the deployment of A330neos into Adelaide “represents a strategic milestone for Malaysia Airways, underscoring sturdy market confidence in our next-generation fleet and premium proposition”.
“It displays our continued deal with fleet modernisation, sustainable aviation, and delivering a persistently elevated buyer expertise anchored in Malaysian Hospitality, whereas strengthening connectivity between Malaysia and Australasia,” he stated.
“As we improve our community and onboard product in keeping with our long-term progress technique, we’re additionally proud to help the Go to Malaysia 2026 marketing campaign by additional positioning Malaysia as a most popular gateway to the area and past.”
Malaysia can be making ready to deploy A330neos into Brisbane because it progressively ramps up companies from 5 to 6 per week beginning 16 August and each day beginning 25 October, having reintroduced its Brisbane route late final 12 months.
In response to Brisbane Airport CEO Gert-Jan de Graaff, the transfer exhibits “the energy of Queensland’s worldwide market, regardless of uncertainty from the continued Center East battle”.
“Airways are making strategic choices about the place to position capability and Malaysia Airways rising Brisbane flights so quickly after launch exhibits the boldness in our market,” he stated.
“Brisbane continues to achieve momentum as a resilient and fast-growing hub, and these extra companies capitalise on the sturdy demand for journey by Queenslanders and guests coming to discover Brisbane and past.
“We additionally look ahead to welcoming the next-generation A330neo to our skies. That is precisely the sort of fashionable, quieter aviation future we wish to see working in Brisbane.”
The service operates greater than 70 flights per week into Australia, together with three each day companies to Sydney and Melbourne, double each day to Perth, each day to Adelaide, and 5 occasions per week to Brisbane, and has stated it sees load elements above 90 per cent on Australian companies.
An open skies settlement between Australia and Malaysia got here into impact this 12 months.
