Malaysian Airline System Bhd., the national carrier, will start evaluating Airbus SAS 350 and Boeing Co. 787 aircraft as part of a fleet renewal plan.
“What we haven’t looked at is the 787s versus the 350s,” Chief Executive Officer Tengku Azmil Zahruddin said in an interview in Brunei today. He declined to say how many aircraft were being considered.
Malaysian Air, which is replacing its aging fleet, also needs new aircraft to tap growth as the airline industry emerges from its deepest traffic drop since World War II. The carrier faces competition from AirAsia Bhd. and Singapore’s Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd., which have placed combined orders for more than 200 planes.
The airline will probably be evaluating the Boeing and Airbus planes sometime next year and some of the prospective orders will be for replacement aircraft, Tengku Azmil said.
The carrier has 15 Airbus A330-300 on order, with options for 10 more, as well as six double-decker Airbus A380s due to arrive in 2012. The airline started taking delivery of 35 Boeing 737-800 planes this month.
Asia’s economies will probably grow 7.9 percent this year, more than double the pace in 2009, according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund.
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