Malaysia Airlines to shift its east Malaysian routes to Firefly

Malaysia Airlines is all set to shift its domestic routes in east Malaysia to Firefly, its sister unit starting from May 16. The routes rejig is a part of the airline’s strategic route rationalisation on its domestic network. FireFly will deploy its Boeing 737-800s on domestic flights within the states of Sabah and Sarawak. The transferred routes include Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan, Tawau and Kuching, Kuching and Miri, the airline said in a statement. Firefly will operate daily flights on the four routes thus increasing the capacity as compared to Malaysia Airlines that operates twice to five times on the