{"id":14914,"date":"2025-03-23T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14914"},"modified":"2025-03-23T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:50:09","slug":"malaysia-aviation-group-announces-order-for-up-to-60-boeing-737-max-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14914","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Aviation Group announces order for up to 60 Boeing 737 MAX Airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Story and image by Boeing<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">March 21, 2025<\/span><\/span>, PRNewswire<\/strong> &#8211; Boeing and Malaysia Aviation Group today announced an order for 18 737-8 and 12 737-10 single-aisle jets to renew Malaysia Airlines&#8217; fleet with more fuel-efficient airplanes. The order, which booked in <span class=\"xn-chron\">January 2025<\/span> and was posted as unidentified on Boeing&#8217;s orders and deliveries website, will enable <span class=\"xn-location\">Malaysia&#8217;s<\/span> flag carrier to introduce new lie-flat seats and meet growing travel demand in <span class=\"xn-location\">Southeast Asia<\/span> \u2013 one of the fastest-growing commercial aviation markets.<\/p>\n<p>The region&#8217;s airplane fleet is projected to grow nearly 250% over the next 20 years, underscoring the importance of Malaysia Aviation Group&#8217;s investment in the 737-8&#8217;s versatility and the 737-10&#8217;s capacity as the largest member of the 737 MAX family.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 737 has served as the backbone of Malaysia Airlines&#8217; single-aisle fleet for nearly 60 years following the introduction of its first 737-100 in 1969. Malaysia Airlines has since operated nearly every variant of the 737 family and will continue that legacy with this latest order for the 737 MAX.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Malaysia Airlines buys 30 new planes, with option for 30 more\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZEhmTqnBDMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image by Boeing Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 21, 2025, PRNewswire &#8211; Boeing and Malaysia Aviation Group today announced an order for 18 737-8 and 12 737-10 single-aisle jets to renew Malaysia Airlines&#8217; fleet with more fuel-efficient airplanes. The order, which booked in January 2025 and was posted as unidentified on Boeing&#8217;s orders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,4813,799,10617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-boeing-news","category-pacifica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14918,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914\/revisions\/14918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}