Malaysia Airlines to replace the B737-400 with B737-800

It was reported quite a few months ago that MH will replace the B734 with B738, with the B739 as a possible option.

A good move. For us spotters, there will be more variety as AirAsia (AK) has over 100 A320 on order, with almost 40 delivered. Also, that closed the possibilities of AK trying to sell their surplus A320 to MH. Given their political connection, that has always been a possibility, and f that happens someone will make a tidy sum of money, at taxpayer and MHs employees and passangers' expenses, of course.

MH used to wet-lease 2 B738 from Travel Services in 2006 as their long-range narrow-body program. The lease lasts only for about 3 months. The aircraft were OK-TVC and OK-TVD.

Anyway, many airlines has been operating the B738 to KUL.

This is a Hong Kong Airlines B738, photographed in KUL this morning. Over the years I've photographed quite a number of this type, in KUL as well as in other stations. This is my collection of B738 on Airliners.net.

Click here for more info on the B738.